FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 113: The doctor was paid 6000_l._ to prepare the narrative of

the Voyages of Captain Cook from the rough notes. He indulged in much

pruriency of description, and occasional remarks savouring of

infidelity. They were loudly and generally condemned, and he died soon

afterwards.]

[Footnote 114: Keats is the most melancholy instance. The effect of the

severe criticism in the Quarterly Review upon his writings, is said by

Shelley to have "appeared like madness, and he was with difficulty

prevented from suicide." He never recovered its baneful effect; and when

he died in Rome, desired his epitaph might be, "Here lies one whose name

was writ in water." The tombstone in the Protestant cemetery is

nameless, and simply records that "A young English poet" lies there.]

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