Chapter XXI: September 6. Numbered XXII

Number XXIV., Sept. 9, begins with the paragraph ‘Tivoli is an enchanting,’ etc., on p. 257.

253. _Native to the manner here._

‘Native here, and to the manner born.’
_Hamlet_, Act I. Sc. 4.

_Forsyth._ See _ante_, note to p. 221. He speaks of the butcher sticking gold-leaf on his mutton’ (ed. 1813, p. 298).

254. _Maria Cosway._ Maria Cecilia Louisa Cosway (fl. 1820), miniature painter, of Florentine birth and English extraction. She married Richard Cosway in 1781.

_Charlemagne._ Lucien Bonaparte (1775–1840), Napoleon’s second brother, published his epic in 1814. Its full title was _Charlemagne ou L’Eglise sauvée_. Hazlitt reviewed it in _The Champion_, Dec. 25, 1814. See in Lockhart’s _Scott_ (1st ed., vol. II., p. 351), the letter from Scott to Morritt, 26th September 1811, respecting Scott’s refusal to translate the poem. An English version by the Rev. S. Butler and the Rev. F. Hodgson was published, apparently, in 1815.

255. _Poor Bowdich._ Thomas Edward Bowdich (1791–1824).

_The primrose path of dalliance._ _Hamlet_, Act I. Sc. 3.

257. _Where all is strength below._ Dryden, _Epistle to Congreve_.

258. _Lord Byron has described the Fall of Terni._ _Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage_, Canto IV. 70.

_Poured it out as plain._ Pope, _Imit. of Hor._, Sat. I. 51–2.

260. _Sees and is seen._ An old phrase.

Cf. ‘I hadde the better leyser for to pleye,
And for to see, and eek for to be seye
Of lusty folk.’
Chaucer, _The Wife of Bath’s Prologue_, l. 551–3.

262. _Pietro Perugino._ Pietro Vannucci, generally called Pietro Perugino (1446–1523), who had Raphael for a pupil.

_Honest as the skin._ _Much Ado About Nothing_, Act III. Sc. 5.