xxvii., 1819, vol. 14, pp. 266-268), in which the
Editor assumed, or feigned to assume, that the accusation of bribery was
to be taken _au grand serieux_.]
{77}[88] [Hor., _Od._ III. C. xiv. lines 27, 28.]
[av] _I thought of dyeing it the other day_.--[MS.]
[89] [Compare _Childe Harold_, Canto III. stanza cvii. line 2.]
{78}[90]
"Me nec femina, nec puer
Jam, nec spes animi credula mutui,
Nec certare juvat mero;
Nec vincire novis tempora floribus."
Hor., _Od._ IV. i. 30.
[In the revise the words _nec puer Jam_ were omitted. On this Hobhouse
comments, "Better add the whole or scratch out all after
femina."--"Quote the whole then--it was only in compliance with your
_settentrionale_ notions that I left out the remnant of the
line."--[B.]]
[91] [For "How Fryer Bacon made a Brazen head to speak," see _The Famous
Historie of Fryer Bacon_ (Reprint, London, 1815, pp. 13-18); see, too,
_Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay_, by Robert Greene, ed. Rev. Alexander
Dyce, 1861, pp. 153-181.]
[92]
["Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climb
The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar?" etc.
Beattie's _Minstrel_, Bk.
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