[7: This alluded to a ridiculous hunter of lions, who, being met by Mr. Morritt in the grounds at Rokeby, disclaimed all taste for picturesque beauties, but overwhelmed their owner with Homeric Greek; of which he had told Scott.] [8: _Burnfoot_ is the name of a farmhouse on the Buccleuch estate, not far from Langholm, where the late Sir John Malcolm and his distinguished brothers were born. Their grandfather had, I believe, found refuge there after forfeiting a good estate and an ancient baronetcy in the _affair_ of 1715. A monument to the gallant General's memory has recently been erected near the spot of his birth.] [9: _3d King Henry VI._ Act I. Scene 4.] [10: See _Life of Dryden_, Scott's _Miscellaneous Prose Works_, vol. i. p. 293.] [11: _Much Ado about Nothing_, Act IV. Scene 2.] [12: Several of these letters having been enclosed in franked covers, which have perished, I am unable to affix the exact dates to them.] [13: The Rev. Alexander Dyce informs me that _nine_ of Carey's pieces were printed in 1771, for J. Murray of Fleet Street, in a quarto of thirty-five pages, entitled _Poems from a MS. written in the time of Oliver Cromwell_. This rare tract had never fallen into Scott's hands.--(1839.)] [14: Byron's _Life and Works_, vol. ii. p. 169.] [15: Several letters to Ballantyne on the same subject are quoted in the notes to the last edition of _Rokeby_. See Scott's _Poetical Works_, 1834, vol. ix. pp. 1-3; and especially the note on p. 300, from which it appears that the closing stanza was added, in deference to Ballantyne and Erskine, though the author retained his own opinion that "it spoiled one effect without producing another."] [16: [See _Familiar Letters_, vol. ii. p. 16.]] [17: "My noontide, India may declare; Like her fierce sun, I fired the air! Like him, to wood and cave bid fly Her natives, from mine angry eye. And now, my race of terror ran, Mine be the eye of tropic sun! No pale gradations quench his ray, No twilight dews his wrath allay; With disk like battle-target red, He rushes to his burning bed. Dyes the wide wave with bloody light, Then sinks at once--and all is night."--_Canto_ vi. 21.] [18: "Scott found peculiar favor and imitation among the fair sex. There was Miss Holford, and Miss Mitford, and Miss Francis; but, with the greatest respect be it spoken, none of his imitators did much honor to the original except Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd, until the appearance of _The Bridal of Triermain_ and _Harold the Dauntless_, which, in the opinion of some, equalled if not surpassed him; and, lo! after three or four years, they turned out to be the master's own compositions."--Byron, vol. xv. p. 96.] [19: See, for instance, the Epistle of Lady Corke--or that of Messrs. Lackington, booksellers, to one of their dandy authors,--