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., which was omitted in all subsequent editions:--

Is it a party in a parlour? Crammed just as they on earth were crammed,-- Some sipping punch, some sipping tea, But, as you by their faces see, All silent and all damned.

[469-1] See Milton, page 241.

[471-1] See Gray, page 382.

[474-1] It was on this occasion [the failure in energy of Lord Mar at the battle of Sheriffmuir] that Gordon of Glenbucket made the celebrated exclamation, "Oh for an hour of Dundee!"--MAHON: _History of England, vol. i. p. 184._

Oh for one hour of blind old Dandolo, The octogenarian chief, Byzantium's conquering foe!

BYRON: _Childe Harold, canto iv. stanza 12._

[475-1] See Milton, page 239.

[476-1] See Milton, page 235.

[477-1] See Shakespeare, page 57.

[477-2] See Collins, page 390.

[478-1] This line is from Sir John Beaumont's "Battle of Bosworth Field."

[479-1] Heaven gives its favourites--early death.--BYRON: _Childe Harold, canto iv. stanza 102._ Also _Don Juan, canto iv. stanza 12._

Quem Di diligunt Adolescens moritur (He whom the gods favor dies in youth).

PLAUTUS: _Bacchides, act iv. sc. 7._

[480-1] See page 465.

[480-2] But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue; . . . . . Shake one, and it awakens; then apply Its polisht lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there.

LANDOR: _Gebir,