[15]. All the editions which I have seen have ‘haste’, but the right reading must certainly be ‘taste’.
[16]. Iliad, xix. 419.
[17]. Odyssey, xix. 392.
[18]. Mr Marsh, in his Lectures on the English Language, New York, 1860, p. 520.
[19]. Marmion, canto vi. 38.
[20]. Marmion, canto vi. 29.
[21]. ‘Be content, good friend, die also thou! why lamentest thou thyself on this wise? Patroclus, too, died, who was a far better than thou.’—Iliad, xxi. 106.
[22]. ‘From me, young man, learn nobleness of soul and true effort: learn success from others.’—Æneid, xii. 435.
[23]. ‘I leave the gall of bitterness, and I go for the apples of sweetness promised unto me by my faithful Guide; but far as the centre it behoves me first to fall.’—Hell, xvi. 61.
[24]. Paradise Lost, i. 591.