Letters of Edward FitzGerald, in Two Volumes. Vol. 1FitzGerald, Edward
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Letters of Edward FitzGerald, in Two Volumes. Vol. 1
FitzGerald, Edward
Authors, English -- 19th century -- Correspondence; FitzGerald, Edward, 1809-1883 -- Correspondence
{58} Widow of Serjeant Frere, Master of Downing College, Cambridge.
{59} Probably Mrs. Schutz of Gillingham Hall, already mentioned.
{60a} Coram Street.
{60b} Wordsworth, The Fountain, ed. 1800.
{61a} William Browne.
{61b} Probably Bletsoe.
{62} Where FitzGerald's uncle, Mr. Peter Purcell, lived.
{64} By Captain Allen F. Gardiner, R.N., 1836.
{65} In an article in Blackwood's Magazine for April 1830, p. 632,
headed Poetical Portraits by a Modern Pythagorean. FitzGerald either
quoted the lines from memory, or intentionally altered them. They
originally stood,
His spirit was the home
Of aspirations high;
A temple, whose huge dome
Was hidden in the sky.
Robert Macnish, LL.D., was the author of The Anatomy of Drunkenness and
The Philosophy of Sleep.
{66a} Master Humphrey's Clock.
{66b} Where Thackeray was then also living.
{67} At Geldestone Hall, near Beccles.
{73a} His sister.
{73b} R. W. Evans, Vicar of Heversham.
{73c} The Paris Sketch Book.
{73d} V. 9.
{75} The artist, of whom Spedding wrote to Thompson in 1842 when he
wished them to become acquainted, 'There is another man whom I have asked
to come a little after 10; because you do not know him, and mutual self
introductions are a nuisance. If however he should by any misfortune of
mine arrive before I do, know that he is Samuel Laurence, a portrait
painter of real genius, of whom during the last year I have seen a great
deal and boldly pronounce him to be worthy of all good men's love. He is
one of the men of whom you feel certain that they will never tire you,
and never do anything which you will wish they had not done. His
advantages of education have been such as it has pleased God (who was
never particular about giving his favourite children a good education) to
send him. But he has sent him what really does as well or better--the
clearest eye and the truest heart; and it may be said of him as of Sir
Peter that
Nature had but little clay
Like that of which she moulded him.'
{79a} Afterwards Greek Professor and Master of Trinity College,
Cambridge.
{79b} In a letter to me written in August 1881 he says, "To-morrow comes
down my Italian sister to Boulge (Malebolge?), and I await her visits
here."
{80a} The British and Foreign Review, 1840, Art. on 'The Present
Government of Russia,' pp 543-591.
{80b} _Ibid._ pp. 510-542.
{80c} _Ibid._ p. 355, etc., Art. on 'Introduction to the Literature of
Europe.'
{82} On Hero Worship.
{89} Major Moor of Great Bealings; author of The Hindu Pantheon, Suffolk
Words, Oriental Fragments, etc.
{90a} By Gerald Griffin.
{90b} The chapel of the Palazzo del Podesta, or Bargello, then used as a
prison.
{93} The London coach.
{96} The owner of Bredfield House, where E. F. G. was born.
{97} Hor. Od. 1. 4. 14, 15.
{98} Hor. Od. IV. 5, 25-27. horrida . . . foetus per metasyntaxin
'horrid abortions.'
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