{3} First published in the Contemporary Review, April 1885
{21} Milton.
{24} Milton.
{33} Milton.
{34} As PVF will continue to haunt us through our English examples, take,
by way of comparison, this Latin verse, of which it forms a chief
adornment, and do not hold me answerable for the all too Roman freedom of
the sense: ‘Hanc volo, quæ facilis, quæ palliolata vagatur.’
{35} Coleridge.
{36} Antony and Cleopatra.
{37a} Cymbeline.
{37b} The V is in ‘of.’
{38} Troilus and Cressida.
{47a} First published in the _Fortnightly Review_, April 1881.
{47b} Mr. James Payn.
{64} A footnote, at least, is due to the admirable example set before
all young writers in the width of literary sympathy displayed by Mr.
Swinburne. He runs forth to welcome merit, whether in Dickens or
Trollope, whether in Villon, Milton, or Pope. This is, in criticism, the
attitude we should all seek to preserve; not only in that, but in every
branch of literary work.
{75a} First published in the _British Weekly_, May 13, 1887.
{75b} Of the _British Weekly_.
{93} First published in the _Magazine of Art_ in 1883.
{111} First published in the _Idler_, August 1894.
{112} _Ne pas confondre_. Not the slim green pamphlet with the imprint
of Andrew Elliot, for which (as I see with amazement from the book-lists)
the gentlemen of England are willing to pay fancy prices; but its
predecessor, a bulky historical romance without a spark of merit, and now
deleted from the world.
{145} 1889.