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Sooner " come place into the civil list,

And champion him to the utmost"-he would keep it, Till duly disappointed or dismiss'd:

Profit he cared not for, let others reap it;

But should the day come when place ceased to exist,

The country would have far more cause to weep it ; For how could it go on? Explain who can!

He gloried in the name of Englishman.

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I knew him in his livelier London days,
A brilliant diner-out, though but a curate;
And not a joke he cut but earn'd its praise,
Until preferment, coming at a sure rate,
(Oh, Providence! how wondrous are thy ways,
Who would suppose thy gifts sometimes obdurate?)
Gave him, to lay the devil who looks o'er Lincoln,
A fat fen vicarage, and naught to think on.

LXXXIII.

His jokes were sermons, and his sermons jokes;
But both were thrown away among the fens:
For wit hath no great friend in aguish folks.
No longer ready ears and shorthand pens
Imbibed the gay bon-mot, or happy hoax:

The poor priest was reduced to common sense,
Or to coarse efforts very loud and long,
To hammer a hoarse laugh from the thick thrung.

LXXXIV.

There is a difference, says the song, "between
A beggar and a queen," or unas (of late
The latter worse used of the two we've seen-
But we 'll say nothing of affairs of state)-
A difference "twixt a bishop and a dean,"

A difference between crockery-ware and plate, As between English beef and Spartan brothAnd yet great heroes have been bred by both.

LXXXV.

But of all nature's discrepancies, none

Upon the whole is greater than the difference Beheld between the country and the town,

Of which the latter merits every preference From those who 've few resources of their own, And only think, or act, or feel with reference. To some small plan of interest or ambitionBoth which are limited to no condition.

LXXXVI.

But "en avant!" The light loves languish o'er
Long banquets and too many guests, although
A slight repast makes people love much more,
Bacchus and Ceres being, as we know,
Even from our grammar upwards, friends of yore
With vivifying Venus, who doth owe

To these the invention of champagne and truffles:
Temperance delights her, but long fasting ruffles.
LXXXVII.

Dully pass'd o'er the dinner of the day;

And Juan took his place he knew not where, Confused, in the confusion, and distrait,

And sitting as if nail'd upon his chair; Though knives and forks clang'd round as in a fray, He seem'd unconscious of all passing there, Till some one, with a groan, express'd a wish (Unheeded twice) to have a fin of fish.

LXXXVIII.

On which, at the third asking of the bans,

He started; and, perceiving smiles around Broadening to grins, he coloured more than once, And hastily-as nothing can confound

4 wise man more than laughter from a dunce-
Inflicted on the dish a deadly wound,

And with such hurry that, ere he could curb it,
He'd paid his neighbour's prayer with half a turbot.

LXXXIX.

This was no bad mistake, as it occurr'd,

The supplicator being an amateur; But others, who were left with scarce a third, Were angry-as they well might, to be sure. They wonder'd how a young man so absurd Lord Henry at his table should endure; And this, and his not knowing how much oats Had fallen last market, cost his host three votes.

XC.

They little knew, or might have sympathized,
That he the night before had seen a ghost;
A prologue, which but slightly harmonized
With the substantial company engross'd
By matter, and so much materialized,

That one scarce knew at what to marvel most Of two things-how (the question rather odd is) Such bodies could have souls, or souls such bodies.

XCI.

But what confused him more than smile or stare
From all the 'squires and 'squiresses around,
Who wonder'd at the abstraction of his air,
Especially as he had been renown'd
For some vivacity among the fair,

Even in the country circle's narrow bound(For little things upon my lord's estate

Were good smail-talk for others still less great)

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Though this was most expedient on the whole,
And usual-Juan, when he cast a glance

On Adeline while playing her grand role,

Which she went through as though it were a dance, (Betraying only now and then her soul

By a look scarce perceptibly askanc
Of weariness or scorn,) began to feel
Some doubt how much of Adeline was real;
XCVII.

So well she acted all and every part

By turns-with that vivacious versaute
Which many people take for want of heart
They err 't is merely what is call'd n7,
A thing of temperament, and not of art,

Though seeming so, from its supposed facil
And false-though true; for surely they're since
Who 're strongly acted on by what is nearest.

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Note 3. Stanza lxxi.

A like gold bar, above her instep roll'd. The bar of gold above the instep is a mark of sovereign rank in the women of the families of the Deys, and is worn as such by their female relatives.

Note 4. Stanza lxxiii.

the river to the road towards Forli. Gaston de Fois, who gained the battle, was killed in it; there fell on both sides twenty thousand mon. The present state of the pillar and its site is described in the text.

CANTO V.

Note 1. Stanza iii.

The ocean stream.

Her person if allow'd at large to run. This is no exaggeration; there were four women whom I remember to have seen, who possessed their hair in this profusion; of these, three were English, the other was a Levantine. Their hair was of that length THIS expression of Homer has been much criticised. and quantity that, when let down, it almost entirely It hardly answers to our Atlantic ideas of the ocean, shaded the person, so as nearly to render dress a subut is sufficiently applicable to the Hellespont, and the perfluity. Of these, only one had dark hair; the Ori-Bosphorus, with the Ægean, intersected with islands. ental's had, perhaps, the lightest colour of the four.

Note 5. Stanza cvii.

Oh Hesperus! thou bringest all good things.

Εσπερε, παντα φέρεις,

Φέρεις οίνον, φερείς αιγά,

Φέρεις ματέρι παιδα.

Fragment of Sappho.
Note 6. Stanza cviii.

Soft hour! which wakes the wish and melts the heart.

"Era già l'ora che volge 'I disio,

A' naviganti e 'ntenerisce il cuore

Lo di ch' ban detto a' dolci amici addio,
E che lo nuovo peregrin d' amore

Punge, se ode Squilla di lontano

Che paja 'I giorno pianger che si muore.'

DANTE'S Purgatory, Canto viii.

Note 2. Stanza v.

"The Giant's Grave."

"The Giant's Grave" is a height on the Asiatic shore of the Bosphorus, much frequented by holiday parties; like Harrow and Highgate.

Note 3. Stanza xxxiii.

And running out as fast as I was able. The assassination alluded to took place on the eighth of December, 1820, in the streets of Ravenna, not a hundred paces from the residence of the writer. The circumstances were as described.

Note 4. Stanza xxxiv.

Kill'd by five bullets from an old gun-barrel. There was found close by him an old gun-barrel, This last line is the first of Gray's Elegy, taken by sawn half off: it had just been discharged, and was him without acknowledgment.

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still warm.

Note 5. Stanza liii.

Prepared for supper with a glass of rum.

In Turkey, nothing is more common, than for the Mussulmans to take several glasses of strong spirits by way of appetizer. I have seen them take as many as six of raki before dinner, and swear that they dined the better for it; I tried the experiment, but was like the Scotchman, who having heard that the birds called kittiewiaks were admirable whets, ate six of them, and complained that "he was no hungrier than when he began."

Note 6. Stanza Iv.

Splendid but silent, save in one, where drooping,

A marble fountain echoes.

A common furniture.—I recollect being received by Ali Pacha, in a room containing a marble basin and fountain, &c. &c. &c.

Note 7. Stanza lxxxvii.

This is no very uncommon effect of the violence of conflicting and different passions. The Doge Francis Foscari, on his deposition, in 1457, hearing the bell of St. Mark announce the election of his successor, mourut subitement d'une hémorrhagie causée par une veine qui s'éclata dans sa poitrine," (see Sismondi and Daru, vols. i. and ii.) at the age of eighty years, when The gate so splendid was in all its features. "who would have thought the old man had so much blood Features of a gate-a ministerial metaphor; "the in him?" Before I was sixteen years of age, I was wit-feature upon which this question hinges.”—See the ness to a melancholy instance of the same effect of "Fudge Family," or hear Castlereagh. mixed passions upon a young person; who, however, did not die in consequence, at that time, but fell a victim some years afterwards to a seizure of the same kind, arising from causes intimately connected with agitation of mind.

Note 3. Stanza lxxx.

Note 8. Stanza cvi.

Though on more thorough-bred or fairer fingers. There is perhaps nothing more distinctive of birth than the hand: it is almost the only sign of blood which aristocracy can generate.

Note 9. Stanza cxlvii.

But sold by the impresario at no high rate. This is a fact. A few years ago, a man engaged a Save Solyman, the glory of their line. company for some foreign theatre; embarked them at his essay on "Empire," hints that Solyman was the It may not be unworthy of remark, that Bacon, in an Italian port, and, carrying them to Algiers, sold last of his line; on what authority, I know not. These them all. One of the women, returned from her cap-are his words: "The destruction of Mustapha was so tivity, I heard sing, by a strange coincidence, in Ros-fatal to Solyman's line, as the succession of the Turks sini's opera of "L'Italiana in Algieri," at Venice, in from Solyman, until this day, is suspected to be untrue, the beginning of 1817.

Nete 4. Stanza lxxxvi.

From all the Pope makes yearly, 't would perplex,
To find three perfect pipes of the third sex,

It is strange that it should be the pope and the sultan who are the chief encouragers of this branch of trade women being prohibited as singers at St. Peter's, and not deemed trustworthy as guardians of the haram. Note 5. Stanza ciй.

and of strange blood; for that Solymus the Second was thought to be supposititious." But Bacon, in his historical authorities, is often inaccurate. I could give halt a dozen instances from his apophthegms only.

Being in the humour of criticism, I shall proceed, after having ventured upon the slips of Bacon, to touch on one or two as trifling in the edition of the British Poets, by the justly celebrated Campbell.-But I do this in good will, and trust it will be so taken.-If any thing could add to my opinion of the talents and true While weeds and ordure rankle round the base. feeling of that gentleman, it would be his classical, The pillar which records the battle of Ravenna, is honest, and triumphant defence of Pope, against the about two miles from the city, on the opposite side of vulgar cant of the day, and its existing Grub-street.

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