[303] Dr. Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802), grandfather of Charles Darwin, and author of the Botanic Garden and the Zoonomia, or the Laws of Organic Life.—T.
[304] James Beattie (1735-1803). The Minstrel appeared in 1774 to 1777.—T.
[305] Hours of Idleness, "When I roved a young Highlander," 1-4.—T.
[306] Hours of Idleness, "Lines written beneath the Elm in the Churchyard of Harrow," 1-4, 17-18, 24-25, 30, 33-34—T.
[307] Arthur Young (1741-1820), a famous writer on agriculture, and Secretary to the Board of Agriculture on its establishment in 1793.—T.
[308] Arthur Young, Travels in France during the Years 1787, 1788, 1789. The author passed by Combourg Castle on the 1st of September 1788.—T.
[309] Martyrs, book IV.—T.
[310] Ad Familiares, IV. 5: "In my return out of Asia, as I was sailing from Ægina towards Megara, I amused myself with contemplating the circumjacent countries. Behind me lay ‚Ægina, before me Megara; on my right I saw Piræus, and on my left Corinth. These cities, once so flourishing and magnificent, now presented nothing to my view but a sad spectacle of desolation" (Melmoth's translation).—T.
[311] Pierre Jean de Béranger (1780-1857), the national French song-writer. The extract quoted occurs in the notes to Béranger's song, À M. de Chateaubriand (September 1831), which is quoted in a later volume.—T.
[312] Abel François Villemain (1790-1870), perpetual secretary of the French Academy from 1835, and author of the notice of Lord Byron in the Biographie universelle, from which the above sentences are quoted.—T.