[Footnote 62: To realize the contrast, compare Gil Blas and Ruy Blas, Marivaux's Paysan Parvenu and Stendhal's Julien Sorel (in "Rouge et Noir").] [Footnote 63: The disciple of Faust.] [Footnote 64: Goethe's "Faust," sc. 1.] [Footnote 65: Most of these details are taken from the "Life and Works of Burns," by R. Chambers, 1851, 4 vols.] [Footnote 66: Ibid. I. 14.] [Footnote 67: My great constituent elements are pride and passion.] [Footnote 68: Extract from Burns's commonplace-book; Chambers's "Life," I. 79.] [Footnote 69: Ibid. I. 231. Burns had a right to think so; when he arrived at night in an inn, the very servants woke their fellow-laborers to come and hear him talk.] [Footnote 70: Ibid. II. 68.] [Footnote 71: "Man was made to Mourn," a dirge.] [Footnote 72: "First Epistle to Davie, a brother poet."] [Footnote 73: "Earnest Cry and Prayer to the Scotch Representatives."] [Footnote 74: "The Creed of Poverty;" Chambers's "Life," IV. 86.] [Footnote 75: "The Tree of Liberty."] [Footnote 76: 1780.] [Footnote 77: "The Holy Fair."] [Footnote 78: "The Holy Fair."] [Footnote 79: "Holy Willie's Prayer."] [Footnote 80: "Epistle to the Rev. John M'math."] [Footnote 81: "A Dedication to Gavin Hamilton."] [Footnote 82: "Address to the Deil."] [Footnote 83: He himself says: "I have been all along a miserable dupe to Love." His brother Gilbert said: "He was constantly the victim of some fair enslaver."] [Footnote 84: Chambers's "Life of Burns," I. 12.] [Footnote 85: Byron's Works, ed. Moore, 17 vols, II. 302, "Journal," Dec. 13, 1813.] [Footnote 86: See a passage from Burns's commonplace-book in Chambers's "Life of Burns," I. 93.] [Footnote 87: Chambers's "Life," I. 38.] [Footnote 88: See "Tam o' Shanter. Address to the Deil, The Jolly Beggars, A Man's a Man for a' that, Green Grow the Rashes," etc.] [Footnote 89: "O Clarinda, shall we not meet in a state, some yet unknown state of being, where the lavish hand of plenty shall minister to the highest wish of benevolence, and where the chill north-wind of prudence shall never blow over the flowery fields of enjoyment?"] [Footnote 90: "Epistle to James Smith:" "O Life, how pleasant is thy morning, Young Fancy's rays the hills adorning, Cold-pausing Caution's lesson spurning!"] [Footnote 91: Chambers's "Life"; Letter to Mr. Js. Burnes, IV. 205.] [Footnote 92: "The Speeches of William Pitt," 2d ed. 3 vols. 1808, II. 17, Jan. 21, 1794.] [Footnote 93: "The Speeches of William Pitt," III. 152, Feb. 17, 1800.] [Footnote 94: Macaulay's Works, VII.; "Life of William Pitt," 396.] [Footnote 95: "The Works of W. Cowper," ed. Southey, 8 vols. 1843.] [Footnote 96: Ibid. I. 18.] [Footnote 97: Ibid. 79.] [Footnote 98: Ibid. 81.] [Footnote 99: "The Works of W. Cowper," I. 97.] [Footnote 100: "The Works of W. Cowper," ed. Southey; Letter to the Rev. John Newton, July 12, 1780.] [Footnote 101: Ibid. Letter to Rev. J. Newton, August 5, 1786.]