[638] Rowe. Nicholas Rowe, an English author of the seventeenth century, who wrote a biography of Shakespeare.
[639] Timon. See note on Gifts, [466].
[640] Warwick. An English politician and commander of the fifteenth century, called "the King Maker." He appears in Shakespeare's plays, Henry IV., V., and VI.
[641] Antonio. The Venetian Merchant in Shakespeare's play, The Merchant of Venice.
[642] Talma. François Joseph Talma was a French tragic actor, to whom Napoleon showed favor.
[643] An omnipresent humanity, etc. See what Carlyle has to say on this subject in his Hero as Poet.
[644] Daguerre. Louis Jacques Daguerre, a French painter, one of the inventors of the daguerreotype process, by means of which an image is fixed on a metal plate by the chemical action of light.
[645] Euphuism. The word here has rather the force of euphemism, an entirely different word. Euphuism was an affected ornate style of expression, so called from Euphues, by John Lyly, a sixteenth century master of that style.
[646] Epicurus. A Greek philosopher of the third century before Christ. He was the founder of the Epicurean school of philosophy which taught that pleasure should be man's chief aim and that the highest pleasure is freedom.