Chapter XXVIII: Book I: , Canto II. St. 1

‘_At last_,’ _etc._ _Ibid._ Book I., Canto V. St. 2.

17. ‘_But now a sport_,’ _etc._ _Hudibras_, Part I., Canto I.
675-688.

_Mr. Sheridan’s description_, _etc._ In his speech on the
Definitive Treaty of Peace, May 14, 1802.

‘_The sarcastic reply of Porson._’ According to Rogers (Dyce,
_Recollections of the Table Talk of Samuel Rogers_, p. 330),
the ‘not till then’ was the comment of Byron on a remark of
Porson’s (_Porsoniana_) that ‘_Madoc_ will be read, when
Homer and Virgil are forgotten.’

18. ‘_Compound for sins_,’ _etc._ _Hudibras_, Part I., Canto I.,
215-216.

‘_There’s but the twinkling_,’ _etc._ _Ibid._ Part II., Canto
III., 957-964.

‘_Now night descending_,’ _etc._ _The Dunciad_, I. 89-90.

19. _Harris._ James Harris (1709-1780), author of _Hermes, or a
Philosophical Inquiry concerning Universal Grammar_ (1751).

20. ‘_A foregone conclusion._’ _Othello_, Act III. Sc. 3.

‘_Comes in such_,’ _etc._ _Hamlet_, Act I. Sc. 4.

‘_Soul-killing lies_,’ _etc._ Lamb, _John Woodvil_, Act II.

21. ‘_The instance might be painful_,’ _etc._ _Letters of Junius_,