[Footnote 56: From the essay on Milton, contributed to the _Edinburgh
Review_ of August, 1825, when the author was only twenty-five years
old.]
[Footnote 57: From Chapter I of the "History of England."]
[Footnote 58: From the essay on Hastings, contributed to the
_Edinburgh Review_ in 1841.]
[Footnote 59: From the essay on Mitford's "History of Greece."]
[Footnote 60: A reference to the "Elgin marbles," which were taken to
London from Athens by Lord Elgin, a Scotchman, in 1801-1803. These
works comprize what had survived at the sculptural decorations of the
Parthenon, and were executed under Phidias about 440 B.C. They are now
in the British Museum.]
[Footnote 61: From the essay on Moore's "Life of Byron," contributed
to the _Edinburgh Review_ in 1831.]
[Footnote 62: The "Hours of Idleness," published in 1807 and severely
criticized in the _Edinburgh Review_--probably by Lord Brougham.]
[Footnote 63: The first two cantos of "Childe Harold" were published
in 1812.]
[Footnote 64: The seaport village on the island of St. Helena in which
Napoleon died.]
[Footnote 65: Missolonghi, where Byron died, lies on the Gulf of
Patras, on the western coast of northern Greece.]