[57] Alack for poor William Linley to settle the point! His elucidation of Macbeth's "Hurlyburly" casts a halo around his memory. In him the world lost one of its kindliest Spirits, and the Garrick Club its acutest commentator.
[58] All who are familiar with the Police Reports, and other Records of our Courts of Justice, will recollect that every gentleman of this particular profession invariably thus describes himself, in contradistinction to the Bricklayer, whom he probably presumes to be indigenous, and to the Shoemaker, born a Snob.
[59] "An antient and most pugnacious family," says our Bath Friend.One of their descendants, George Rose, Esq., late M.P. for Christchurch (an elderly gentleman now defunct), was equally celebrated for his vocal abilities and his wanton destruction of furniture when in a state of excitement.—"Sing, old Rose, and burn the bellows!" has grown into a proverb.
[60] The worthy Jesuit's polemical publisher.—I am not quite sure as to the orthography;—it's idem sonans, at all events.
[61] Effodiuntur Opes Irritamenta Malorum.
Lilly's Grammar.
[62] "E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires!"—Gray.
"A position at which Experience revolts, Credulity hesitates, and even Fancy stares!"—Johnson.
[63] See page 299.
[64] Thrones! Dominations! Princedoms! Virtues! Powers!