William Allingham’s Ballad Book, p. 41.
The Braes of Yarrow. By William Hamilton, of Bangour (1704–1754).
[143]. Turner’s History of England. Sharon Turner (1768–1847), History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of Elizabeth (1814–1823). The story is a pretty one, but the Eastern lady was not the mother of the Cardinal.
J. H. Reynolds. John Hamilton Reynolds (1796–1852).
VIII. ON THE LIVING POETS
[143]. No more talk where God or angel guest. Paradise Lost, IX. 1–3.
[146]. The Darwins, the Hayleys, the Sewards. Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802), grandfather of Charles Darwin, and author of The Loves of the Plants (1789), a poem parodied by Frere in The Anti-Jacobin as ‘The Loves of the Triangles.’ William Hayley (1745–1820), who wrote The Triumphs of Temper and a Life of Cowper. Anna Seward (1747–1809), the ‘Swan of Lichfield.’ She wrote poetical novels, sonnets and a life of Dr. Darwin.
Face-making. Hamlet, III. 2.
Mrs. Inchbald. Elizabeth Inchbald (1753–1821), novelist, dramatist and actress.
Thank the Gods. Cf. As You Like It, III. 3.