[[83b]] The phrases are drawn from Burns's letter to Dr. Moore.
[[84]] Farewell Song to the Banks of Ayr. The last line should read:—
Farewell, the bonie banks of Ayr.
[[85]] Shakespeare, Richard II. iv. 1. Carlyle was a man of enormous reading, and no one can hope to recognize all his allusions. But the two books to which he, like most of the great writers of modern England, refers most frequently, are within the reach of every one: they are the Bible and Shakespeare.
[[86]] Lockhart, chap. v.
[[87]] Ovid, Tristia, IV. x. 51.
[[88]] Adam Ferguson (1723-1816), professor of philosophy at Edinburgh University. He was succeeded by Dugald Stewart.
[[89]] Henry William Bunbury (1750-1811) was an amateur artist and caricaturist of some note.
[[90]] The poem may be found in Chalmers's British Poets, vol. xvi., under the title The Country Justice. There the second line reads: "Perhaps that parent mourn'd her soldier slain." John Langhorne (1735-1779) and his brother William made the translation of Plutarch's Lives which, in spite of its dreary style, is still the one in general use.
[[91]] Alexander Nasmyth (1758-1840) painted in 1787 a bust portrait of Burns, which is the likeness most commonly reproduced.