indeed by all who came within his genial and invigorating influence--at
Vallombrosa, Oct. 7, 1895, aged 77. His excellent wife had passed away
before him.
[503] From “Days near Rome.”
[504] Planted by S. Dominic, and supposed to flourish or fail with the
fortunes of the Dominican Order.
[505] From “Days near Rome.”
[506] From “Venice.”
[507] Lady Emily Pierrepont, daughter of Earl Manvers, widow of
Frederick Lygon, 6th Earl Beauchamp.
[508] Horatio William Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford.
[509] I have since heard that this was Louise de Rohan Chabot, whom his
father forbade Lord Orford to marry, because she was a Roman Catholic.
She was the love of his life, which was wrecked, and he became a Roman
Catholic himself--such is Nemesis!
[510] This was the man who one day went up to the great, the beloved
Bishop Brooks, the most popular man in America since Washington, and
said, “And do you really believe all that you say?” “I wanted to knock
him down, the little moth-eaten angel,” said the Bishop in recounting it
afterwards.
[511] At Lincoln he had “a fair tomb of marble,” with the punning
legend, “Longa terra mansura ejus, Dominus dedit.” The reference is to
the Vulgate--Job xi. 9. At Eton he had an epitaph on brass.
[512] I never saw the beloved Lord Arthur Hervey again: he died June
1894.
[513] From “Sussex.”
[514] From “Sussex.”
[515] Lord John George Beresford.
[516] G. V. Watts, R.A.
[517] Henry Fuseli or Fuessli, an Anglo-Swiss.
[518] The famous J. M. W. Turner.
[519] The Marquises of Sligo are Earls of Altamont.
[520] From “The Gurneys of Earlham.”
[521] Carlyle.
[522] Chateaubriand.
[523] From “North-Western France.”
[524] From “North-Western France.”
[525] From “North-Western France.”
[526] From “North-Western France.”
[527] From “Biographical Sketches.”
[528] Alas! this was actually the case a very few months afterwards. The
dear Canon Venables died of influenza on the 5th of March 1895, and his
gentle loving wife only survived him _one day_.
[529] She was daughter of an Earl of Thanet.
[530] Shakspeare’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
[531] “Whose voice seemed faint through long disuse of speech.”
[532] Of “Diana Tempest,” &c.
[533] In “The High Tide in Lincolnshire.”
[534] Philip Henry, 4th Earl.
[535] Jerome K. Jerome.
[536] Memoires de “Madame.”
[537] “John Inglesant.”
[538] Henri Frederic Amiel.
[539] Louisa May, daughter of Amos Bronson Alcott.
[540] In three years the sale amounted to 87,000 copies.
[541] Daughter of Rev. Edward Payson, afterwards Mrs. Hopkins.
[542] Thomas Hardy, the novelist, resides at Max Gale, near Dorchester,
amid the scenery of his Wessex novels and stories.
[543] Mrs. Beecher Stowe in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.”
[544] The others were Lady Wellesley, Lady Stafford, and Mrs. M’Tavish.
[545] Bought out of a cart in Paris, died 1753.
[546] The second saying, ‘I have been here three months, and have seen a
little;’--the third, ‘I have been here three years, and am only
beginning to understand it.’
[547] Alfred Tennyson in 1892.
[548] George Eliot’s Letters.
[549] This very popular and promising son of Lord Carlisle was killed at
the battle of Omdurman, September 2, 1898.
[550] Wordsworth.
[551] Coleridge, ‘Fears in Solitude.’
[552] “Arridet placidum radiis crispantibus aequor.”--_Rutilius._
[553] Lady Winchelsea’s “Reverie.”
[554] Eccl. vii. 29.
[555] De Musset.
[556] Author of “A Lilac Sun-Bonnet,” &c.
[557] Author of “A Window in Thrums,” which brought him £4000.
[558] Madame de Staël.
[559] Afterwards bought by his descendant for £8000.
[560] Killed, alas! in the South African War of 1900.
[561] Died 1839.
[562] The American edition, omitting nothing and doing full justice to
the woodcuts, is in two rather thin volumes.
[563] Washington Irving’s Letters.
[564] Anthony Hope in “Mr. Witt’s Widow.”
[565] _Née_ De Bunsen.
[566] Said by Wasisewski of Catherine II. of Russia.
[567] Florence Montgomery in “Colonel Norton.”
[568] “Colonel Norton.”
[569] See Vol. i.
[570] Elisée Reclus.
[571] Carlyle.
[572] Rev. Joseph Parker.
[573] Burns.
[574] John Bright.
[575] Purg. v. 13-15.
[576] Browning.
[577] Of 60 Grosvenor Street.
[578] Tennyson.
[579] Pierre Loti.
[580] Frances, daughter of Pierce Butler of Philadelphia by Fanny
Kemble, his wife, married to the Hon. James Wentworth Leigh, Dean of
Hereford.
[581] Politian.
[582] Henry Taylor, “The Eve of the Conquest.”
[583] Catherine Stanley--Mrs. C. Vaughan.
[584] S. Simon.
[585] Trans. by Lowell.
[586] “Von dem Fesseln geistiger Berniertheit.”--_Goethe._
[587] Gabrielle d’Annunzio.
[588] Tennyson.
[589] Margaret L. Woods.
[590] “Nich. Brome slew ye minister of Baddesley church, findynge him in
his pier (parlour) chockinge his wife under ye chinne, and to expiate
these bloody offences and crimes, he built ye steeple and raysed ye
church body 10 foote higher, as is seene at this day in ye churche, and
boughte 3 belles for ye same churche. In his epitaph in ye churche, ye
building of ye churche and steeple was expressed; he died ye 29 daye of
August, ano 1517. I have seen ye king’s pdon for itt, and ye Pope’s
pdon, and the penance there enjoined him.”--_MS. of Henry Ferrers,
quoted by Dugdale_. (Nich. Brome really died October 1517.)
[591] “Quiet Hours.”
[592] Johnson on Levett.
[593] Shakspeare, ‘King Lear.’
[594] See vol. i. p. 186.
[595] Lowell.
[596] Whittier.
[597] S. T. Coleridge, Letter to Thomas Poole.
[598] Old Play.
[599] George Eliot.
[600] J. Greenleaf Whittier, Letters, 1867.
[601] “Roderick.”
[602] Blake.
[603] Henri Frédéric Amiel.
[604] From the Introduction to the Bùstàn of Shaikh Mushlihu-d-dín Sa’di
Shírází. Translated by Sir E. Strachey.
[605] E. Spenser.
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Typographical errors corrected by the etext transcriber:
Cosa e questo?=> Cosa è questo? {pg 88}
Le Notre=> Le Nôtre {pg 414}
insufficently=> insufficiently {pg 415}
Pius IX., Giovanni Maria Mastai-Feretti, Pope=> Pius IX., Giovanni Maria
Mastai-Ferretti, Pope {index}
Eugéne Beauharnais, Prince, i. 20.=> Eugène Beauharnais, Prince, i. 20.
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Lubeck, v. 98.=> Lübeck, v. 98. {index}
Le Notre=> Le Nôtre {pg 414}
Riano, Emilia de Guyangos, Madame de, iv. 40, 41, 400; v. 277, 281.=>
Riaño, Emilia de Guyangos, Madame de, iv. 40, 41, 400; v. 277, 281.
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