Ritson's Songs, vol. ii., p. 105.
[217] Voice from St. Helena, vol. i., p. 21.
[218] Voice from St. Helena, vol. i., p. 22.
Et tragicus plerumque dolet sermone pedestri.
Telephus et Peleus, cum pauper et exul uterque,
Projicit ampullas et sesquipedalia verba.
Hor. Ars Poetica.
"Princes will sometimes mourn their lot in prose.
Peleus and Telephus, broke down by woes,
In indigence and exile forced to roam,
Leave sounding phrase, and long-tail'd words, at home."—S.
[220] Parl. Debates, vol. xxx., p. 377.
[221] "In default of America, I prefer England to any other country. I shall take the name of Colonel Meuron, or of Duroc."—Instructions to Gourgaud, July 13, 1815; Savary, tom. iv., p. 162.
[222] Parl. Debates, vol. xxxiii., p. 213.