| Stanza | 2 | line | 3, frantic for lawless. |
| „ | 3 | „ | 1, their country’s for domestic. |
| „ | 3 | „ | 1, and wealth and for external. |
| „ | 3 | „ | 3, honoured for sacred. |
| „ | 4 | „ | 1, now for then. |
| „ | 4 | „ | 3, advocate for tool confessed. |
| „ | 4 | „ | 4, later for modern. |
| „ | 5 | „ | 2, thus for now. |
| „ | 5 | „ | 4, Catiline for Cataline. |
| „ | 5 | „ | 4, modern for later.—Ed.] |
[121]. [Written to ridicule Richard Payne Knight’s Progress of Civil Society, a Didactic Poem, in Six Books. London, 1796, 4to.—Ed.]
[122]. Ver. 3. A modern author of great penetration and judgment observes very shrewdly, that “the cosmogony of the world has puzzled the philosophers of all ages. What a medley of opinions have they not broached upon the creation of the world. Sanconiathon, Manetho, Berosus, and Ocellus Lucanus have all attempted it in vain. The latter has these words—Anarchon ara kai ateleutaion to pan—which imply, that all things have neither beginning nor end.” See Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield; see also Mr. Knight’s Poem on the Progress of Civil Society.
[123]. Ver. 12. The influence of Mind upon Matter, comprehending the whole question of the Existence of Mind as independent of Matter, or as co-existent with it, and of Matter considered as an intelligent and self-dependent Essence, will make the subject of a larger Poem in 127 Books, now preparing under the same auspices.
[124]. Ver. 14. See Godwin’s Enquirer; Darwin’s Zoonomia; Paine; Priestley, &c. &c.; also all the French Encyclopædists.
[125]. Ver. 16. Quæstio spinosa et contortula.
[126]. Ver. 26. “Add thereto a tiger’s chawdron.”—Macbeth.
[127]. Ver. 26, 27.
“In softer notes bids Lybian lions roar,
And warms the whale on Zembla’s frozen shore.”