"Osborne, May 3, 1869.
"The Queen sends Mr Martin to-day a volume of the beloved Prince's and her own etchings, which she has had purposely bound for him, and which she hopes he will place in his library, as a trifling recollection of his kindness in carrying out so many of her wishes."
[7] Quarterly Review for April 1901: article "Queen Victoria," p. 305.
[8] It is of such that Sir Henry Taylor writes in his Philip van Artevelde, Act I. Sc. v.:—
"He was one
Of that small tally, of the singular few,
Who, gifted with predominating powers,
Bear yet a temperate will, and keep the peace.
The world knows nothing of its greatest men."
[9] Denkwürdigkeiten aus den Papieren des Freiherr's Christian Friedrich v. Stockmar. Braunschweig, 1872.
[10] Quarterly Review for April 1872, p. 386 et seq.
[11] "Thy dear image I bear within me, and what miniature can come up to that? No need to place one on my table to remind me of you."
[12] Life of Archbishop Benson, vol. ii. pp. 2 and 561.
[13] The allusion is to the lines in the fine passage in the seventh section of that poem, beginning, "Blame not thyself too much":—