[191]: Alison, History of Europe;—Porter, Progress of the Nation.
[192]: Comparez, pour sentir ce contraste, Gil Blas et Ruy Blas, le Paysan parvenu de Marivaux et Julien Sorel de Stendhal.
[193]: Faust, scène première.
[194]: This kind of life—the cheerless gloom of a hermit, with the unceasing toil of a galley-slave—brought me to my sixteenth year.
[195]: After three years' tossing and whirling in the vortex of litigation, my father was just saved from the horrors of a goal by a consumption, which after two years' promises kindly stepped in.
[196]: I read farming books, I calculated crops; I attended markets, but the first year, from unfortunately buying bad seed, the second, from a late harvest, we lost our crops.
[197]: Even in the hour of social mirth, my gaiety is the madness of an intoxicated criminal under the hands of the executioner.
[198]: La plupart de ces détails sont tirés de la Biographie de Burns, par Chambers, en quatre volumes.
[199]: I had felt early some stirrings of ambition, but they were the blind groping of Homer's Cyclops round the walls of his cave.... The only two openings by which I could enter the temple of Fortune, were the gate of niggardly economy, or the path of little chicaning bargain-making. The first is so contracted an aperture, I could never squeeze myself into it. The last I always hated. There was contamination in the very entrance.
[200]: My great constituent elements are pride and passion.