[115]See the notes of Southey, worse than those of Chateaubriand in the "Martyrs."
[116]"Edinburgh Review."
[117]Lockhart, "Life of Sir Walter Scott," 10 vols. 2d ed. 1839, II. ch. XXXVII. p. 170.
[118]Lockhart's "Life of Sir Walter Scott;" Autobiography, I. 62.
[119]Lockhart's "Life of Sir Walter Scott," Autobiography, I. 72.
[120]Ibid, VII; Abbotsford in 1825.
[121]If Constable's "Memorials" (3 vols. 1873) had been published when M. Taine wrote this portion of his work he perhaps would have seen reason to alter this opinion, because it is clear that, so far from Sir Walter's printer and publisher ruining him, they, if not ruined by Sir Walter, were only equal sharers with him in the imprudences that led to the disaster.—Tr.
[122]Lockhart's "Life," I. ch. VII. 269.
[123]Ibid. VI. ch. XLIX. 252.
[124]See the opening of "Ivanhoe": "Such being our chief scene, the date of our story refers to a period towards the end of the reign of Richard I., when his return from his long captivity had become an event rather wished than hoped for by his despairing subjects, who were in the meantime subjected to every species of subordinate oppression." It is impossible to write in a heavier style.