Letters of Edward FitzGerald Volume II Part 41

{5} See p. 2.

{13} Article on 'British Novelists' in Fraser's Magazine, Jan. 1860.

{18} Major Rolla Rouse of Melton.

{22} His brother.

{23a} Dean of Westminster and afterwards Archbishop of Dublin.

{23b} Journal of Mrs. Trench, not then published.

{24} In 1872 he wrote to me: 'I hope that others have remembered and made note of A. T.'s sayings--which hit the nail on the head. Had I continued to be with him, I would have risked being called another Bozzy by the thankless World; and have often looked in vain for a Note Book I had made of such things.'

And again in 1876: 'He _said_, and I dare say, _says_ things to be remembered: decisive Verdicts; which I hope some one makes note of: post me memoranda.'

{25} In Fraser's Magazine for June 1861, 'On Translating Homer.'

{27} Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society for 1860, pp 1-17; published in 1861.

{29} [In the book the AT is a symbol made of a capital A, with a small T inside it with the bar of the T in the same position as the bar in the A.--D.P.]

{30} The Hon Stephen Spring Rice.

{34} Sat. III. 254.

{35a} Hermann's conjecture on Agam. 819.

{35b} Sat. VI. 460.

{37} As Greek Professor.

{40} At Ely

{47a} ? Forty.

{47b} The Cambridge Shakespeare.

{48a} Purgatorio, xxiii.

{48b} Euripides.

{50} Thackeray died 24 Dec. 1863.

{55} A copy by Laurence of his portrait of Thackeray.

{56a} Gainsborough's sketch of Dupont which Laurence copied.

{56b} Gainsborough, when dying, whispered to Reynolds, 'We are all going to heaven, and Vand.y.k.e is of the party.'

{58} By Professor Sellar in the Oxford Essays for 1855: reprinted in his Roman Poets of the Republic, 1863.

{59a} Late Archdeacon of Suffolk.

{59b} VI. 556.

{61} Pliny, Hist. Nat. ii. 5. FitzGerald quotes only a part of the pa.s.sage in the first scene of The Mighty Magician.

{62a} In June 1864.

{62b} The third was probably the Agamemnon.

{63} So by mistake for Woodbridge.

{68} Probably, as I am informed by Mr. Mowbray Donne, 'that when Lord Chatham met any Bishops he bowed so low that you could see the peak of his nose between his legs.'

{69a} Sappho, Fr. xlvi. (Gaisford).

{69b} P. 308.

{74} Quoted by the Scholiast on Theocritus, V. 65, and to be found in the editions of the Paroemiographi Graeci by Gaisford and Leutsch.

{77} Francis Duncan, Rector of West Chelborough.

{78a} See note, p. 110.

{78b} OEd. Tyr. 1076.

{78c} OEd. Col. 607.

{86} Sophocles, Ajax 674, 5.

{87a} Not Jocasta, but Alcmene.

{87b} Arist. Poet. 13, 10.

{88} Her son, the Suffolk Poet, says that in the decline of her life she 'observed to a relative with peculiar emphasis, that "to meet Winter, Old Age, and Poverty, was like meeting three great giants."' For 'Sickness'

FitzGerald at first had written 'Old Age.'

{91} Article in the Athenaeum of 2nd Feb. 1867 on Donne's edition of the Correspondence of George III. and Lord North.

{97a} Delivered 23rd Oct. 1867.

{97b} By Emanuel Deutsch.

{102} By Leslie Stephen.

{104} Who said that the description of the boat race with which Euphranor ends was one of the most beautiful pieces of English prose.

{105} Referring to The Two Generals, Letters and Literary Remains, vol.