Rosemary Branch. At Peckham. See Vol. VI. Table Talk, note to p. 88.
Catch the breezy air. Wordsworth, ‘Lines written in Early Spring’ (Lyrical Ballads, 1798).
There’s nought so sweet on earth. One of Moore’s ‘Irish Melodies.’
Brahams. John Abraham, tenor singer (1774–1856). ‘He was,’ said Sir Walter Scott, ‘a beast of an actor, but an angel of a singer.’ He began life by selling lead pencils in London streets as a boy, made an enormous fortune as the greatest tenor singer of his day, and squandered it in building St. James’s Theatre and buying the Colosseum in Regent’s Park (See Vol. VI. Mr. Northcote’s Conversations, note to p. 429).
Durusets. J. B. Duruset, singer (See the Literary Gazette of June 26 and July 3, 1824).
[71]. An hour by St. Dunstan’s clock. Cf. ‘We rose both at an instant, and fought a long hour by Shrewsbury clock.’ 1 King Henry IV. V. 4.
Copenhagen-house. A tavern and tea-garden in North London between Maiden Lane and Hogbush Lane. See Vol. VI. Table Talk, p. 86–89.
[72]. For how should the soul of Socrates. The Road to Ruin, Act III. 2.
Hole in the Wall. In Chancery Lane, kept by Randall the pugilist. See Vol. VI. Table Talk, note to p. 202.
The poet Jago. Richard Jago (1715–1781), author of Edge Hill.