Tristan the Hermit and Petit André, in “Quentin Durward.”
but himself. Though Scott composed many of his own mottoes, he never quoted his own previous verse but pretended to be using an Old Play or an Old Poem.
[P. 234.] born for the universe. Goldsmith’s “Retaliation,” 31.
winked and shut. Marston’s “Antonio’s Revenge,” Prologue.
[P. 235.] Who would not grieve. Cf. Pope’s “Prologue to the Satires,” 213:
“Who but must laugh, if such a man there be?
Who would not weep if Atticus were he?”
LORD BYRON
From the “Spirit of the Age.” Discussions of Byron’s poetry are also to be found in the review of “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” (Works, XI, 420-426) and in “Pope, Lord Byron and Mr. Bowles” (XI, 486-508).
[P. 236.] As if a man. “Coriolanus,” v, 3, 36.
cloud-capt. “Tempest,” iv, I, 152.