[[26]] The reference is to Macaulay, essay on Milton.
[[27]] The two poems, Halloween and The Holy Fair, must be read to understand the references. Any encyclopædia will explain the Council of Trent and the Roman Jubilee.
[[28]] Carlyle had little interest in the fine arts for their own sake; perhaps he was attracted to Retzsch by his illustrations of Schiller and Goethe.
[[29]] The passage beginning here, and extending through the quotation on page 27, is not found in the Edinburgh Review.
[[30]] Bock'd, vomited.
[[31]] Fabulosus Hydaspes! [Note by Carlyle] see Horace: Odes, I. 22.
[[32]] Thaws that melt the snow in spots.
[[33]] Rolls.
[[34]] Spate, torrent.
[[35]] Muddy splashes.