[A] A monument with runic inscription, raised over a fallen warrior.
[B] That is by a red-hot cannon ball, placed at the middle of the tent.
[C] Pronounced as in Swedish, Marea. Marie, which occurs below, is
pronounced Mare´.
[D] The author does not here personify love, but reversing the process,
considers it once a person and inhabitant of heaven, now degraded to be
a mere quality on earth.
[E] A poet-bishop of Sweden, much admired by Tegnér.
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“There is in human nature a general inclination to make
people stare; and every wise man has himself to cure of
it, and does cure himself. If you wish to make people
stare by doing better than others, why make them stare
till they stare their eyes out! But consider how easy it
is to make people stare by being absurd. I may do it by
going into a drawing-room without my shoes. You remember
the gentleman in ‘The Spectator,’ who had a commission of
lunacy taken out against him for his extreme singularity,
such as never wearing a wig, but a night-cap. Now, sir,
abstractedly, the night-cap was best: but, relatively, the
advantage was overbalanced by his making the boys run after
him.”—_Boswell, reporting Samuel Johnson._