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59.] [Footnote 184: 'Lettres d'un Voyageur.'] [Footnote 185: Sir Henry Taylor's 'Statesman,' p.
59.] [Footnote 186: Introduction to the 'Principal Speeches and Addresses of His Royal Highness the Prince Consort,' 1862.] [Footnote 187: "When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beween my outcast state, And troubled deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself and curse my fate; WISHING ME LIKE TO ONE MORE RICH IN HOPE, Featured like him, like him with friends possessed, Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy, contented least; Yet in these thoughts, MYSELF ALMOST DESPISING, Haply I think on thee," &c .-- SONNET XXIX. "So I, MADE LAME by sorrow's dearest spite," &c .-- SONNET XXXVI] [Footnote 188: "And strength, by LIMPING sway disabled," &c .-- SONNET LXVI. "Speak of MY LAMENESS, and I straight will halt."-- SONNET LXXXIX.] [Footnote 189: "Alas! 'tis true, I have gone here and there, And MADE MYSELF A MOTLEY TO THE VIEW, Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear, Made old offences of affections new," &c .-- SONNET CX. "Oh, for my sake do you with fortune chide! The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide, THAN PUBLIC MEANS, WHICH PUBLIC MANNERS BREED; Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued, To what it works in like the dyer's hand," &c .-- SONNET CXI.] [Footnote 1810: "In our two loves there is but one respect, Though in our loves a separable spite, Which though it alter not loves sole effect; Yet doth it steal sweet hours from love's delight, I may not evermore acknowledge thee, Lest MY BEWAILED GUILT SHOULD DO THEE SHAME."-- SONNET XXXVI.] [Footnote 1811: It is related of Garrick, that when subpoenaed on Baretti's trial, and required to give his evidence before the court--though he had been accustomed for thirty years to act with the greatest self-possession in the presence of thousands--he became so perplexed and confused, that he was actually sent from the witness-box by the judge, as a man from whom no evidence could be obtained.] [Footnote 1812: Mrs.Mathews' 'Life and Correspondence of Charles Mathews,' [18Ed. 1860: p.
232.] [Footnote 1813: Archbishop Whately's 'Commonplace Book.'] [Footnote 1814: Emerson is said to have had Nathaniel Hawthorne in his mind when writing the following passage in his 'Society and Solitude:'-- "The most agreeable compliment you could pay him was, to imply that you had not observed him in a house or a street where you had met him.
Whilst he suffered at being seen where he was, he consoled himself with the delicious thought of the inconceivable number of places where he was not.
All he wished of his tailor was to provide that sober mean of colour and cut which would never detain the eye for a moment....
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