'Morning Post', February 18.]
[Footnote 5: 'Macbeth', act v. sc. 3.]
[Footnote 6: These words close the penultimate paragraph of Burton's
'Anatomy of Melancholy'.]
[Footnote 7: 'Hamlet', act ii. sc. 2, and act iii. sc. 1.]
[Footnote 8: 'Ibid'., sc. 2.]
[Footnote 9:
"Brutus, thou sleepest, awake."
'Julius Caesar', act ii. sc. 1.]
[Footnote 10: The following extract from 'Detached Thoughts' (1821)
implies that this expression of opinion was no passing thought (but see
Scott's note, p. 376 [Footnote 5 of Journal entry for December 13th,
1813]):
"There is nothing left for Mankind but a Republic, and I think that
there are hopes of such. The two Americas (South and North) have it;
Spain and Portugal approach it; all thirst for it. Oh Washington!"]
[Footnote 11: Here is one of Madame de Stael's notes:
"Je renonce a vos visites, pourvu que vous acceptiez mes diners, car
enfin a quoi servirait il de vivre dans le meme tems que vous, si
l'on ne vous voyait pas? Dinez chez moi dimanche avec vos amis,--je ne
dirai pas vos admirateurs, car je n'ai rencontre que cela de touts
parts.
"A dimanche,
"DE STAEL.
"Mardi.
"Je prends le silence pour oui."]
[Footnote 12: Horace, 'Odes', II. iii. 21, 'et seqq.']
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Saturday, Feb. 19.
Just returned from seeing Kean [1] in Richard. By Jove, he is a soul!
Life--nature--truth without exaggeration or diminution.
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