Chapter I: From the Morning Chronicle, Tuesday, Sept. 14, 1824

90. _Forever the same._ Add, from the newspaper:—‘The sea at present puts me in mind of Lord Byron—it is restless, glittering, dangerous, exhaustless, like his style.’

_Can question thine._ Add:—‘Hearing some lines repeated out of Virgil, while B—— and I were sitting near the melancholy Scottish shores, looking towards England, I said that the sound of the Latin language was to me like the sound of the sea—melodious, strange, lasting! So the verses we had just heard had lingered on the ear of memory, had flowed from the learned tongue, for near two thousand years!’

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91. _In a great pool._ _Cymbeline_, Act III. Sc. 4.

92. _Otto of roses._ Add:—‘It was like other beds in France—_not aired_.’

_A compound of villainous smells._ _Merry Wives of Windsor_, Act III. Sc. 5.

_Mieris._ See _ante_, note to p. 60.

_Jan Steen._ Of Leyden (1626–1679), a follower of Van Ostade, Brouwer, and Van Goyen.

93. _Gay, sprightly land of mirth and social ease._ Goldsmith, _The Traveller_, 41–2.