Book ii

. Ode x._

But strive still to be a man before your mother.[424-2]

_Connoisseur. Motto of No. iii._

FOOTNOTES:

[414-1] See Pope, page 314.

[414-2] See Prior, page 287.

[415-1] See Pope, page 331.

[415-2] See Pope, page 336.

[415-3] See Butler, page 213.

The story of a lamp which was supposed to have burned about fifteen hundred years in the sepulchre of Tullia, the daughter of Cicero, is told by Pancirollus and others.

[416-1] La Bruyère.

[417-1] BUCKINGHAM: _The Rehearsal_ (the two Kings of Brentford).

[417-2] See Bacon, page 167.

[418-1] Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men!--_Jeremiah ix. 2._

Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place!--BYRON: _Childe Harold,

## canto iv. stanza 177._

[418-2] Servi peregrini, ut primum Galliæ fines penetraverint eodem momento liberi sunt (Foreign slaves, as soon as they come within the limits of Gaul, that moment they are free).--BODINUS: _Liber i. c. 5._

Lord Campbell ("Lives of the Chief Justices," vol. ii. p. 418) says that "Lord Mansfield first established the grand doctrine that the air of England is too pure to be breathed by a slave." The words attributed to Lord Mansfield, however, are not found in his judgment. They are in Hargrave's argument, May 14, 1772, where he speaks of England as "a soil whose air is deemed too pure for slaves to breathe in."--LOFFT: _Reports, p. 2._

[418-3] See Churchill, page 413.

[419-1] See Dryden, page 277.

[419-2] No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety--PUB. SYRUS: _Maxim 406._

[419-3] He has spent all his life in letting down buckets into empty wells; and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again.--_Lady Holland's Memoir of Sydney Smith, vol. i. p. 259._

[420-1] See Bishop Berkeley, page 312.

[420-2] See Thomson, page 356.

[421-1] It was Cowper who gave this now common name to the mignonette.

[421-2] No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung; Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.

HEBER: _Palestine._

So that there was neither hammer nor axe, nor any tool of iron heard in the house while it was in building.--_1 Kings vi. 7._

[422-1] Write the vision, and make it plain, upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.--_Habakkuk ii. 2._

He that runs may read.--TENNYSON: _The Flower._

[423-1] See Young, page 312.

[423-2] _Var._ How he esteems your merit.

[424-1] Keep the golden mean.--PUBLIUS SYRUS: _Maxim 1072._

[424-2] See Beaumont and Fletcher, page 199.

ERASMUS DARWIN. 1731-1802.

Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd steam! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car; Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the field of air.

_The Botanic Garden.