[174] Adapted from Rom. VIII, 26. PAGE 139 [175] From _The Baths of Lucca_, chap. IX, in _Pictures of Travel, Works_, III, 184-85. [176] _Romancero_, book III. PAGE 140 [177] ~Laura~. The heroine of Petrarch's famous series of love lyrics known as the _Canzoniere_. [178] ~Court of Love~. For a discussion of this supposed medieval tribunal see William A. Neilson's _The Origins and Sources of the Court of Love, Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature_, Boston, 1899, chap. VIII. PAGE 142 [179] _Disputation, Romancero_, book III. [180] _The Dying One, Romancero_, book II, quoted entire. PAGE 143 [181] Written from Paris, September 30, 1850. See _Memoirs_, ed. 1910, II, 226-27. MARCUS AURELIUS. PAGE 145 [182] Reprinted from _The Victoria Magazine_, II, 1-9, November, 1863, in _Essays in Criticism_, 1865. [183] ~John Stuart Mill~ (1806-73), English philosopher and economist. _On Liberty_ (1859) is his most finished writing. [184] The _Imitation of Christ_ (_Imitatio Christi_), a famous medieval Christian devotional work, is usually ascribed to Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471), an Augustinian canon of Mont St. Agnes in the diocese of Utrecht. PAGE 146 [185] ~Epictetus~. Greek Stoic philosopher (born c. A.D. 60). He is an earnest preacher of righteousness and his philosophy is eminently practical. For Arnold's personal debt to him see his sonnet _To a Friend_. PAGE 147 [186] ~Empedocles~. A Greek philosopher and statesman (c. 490-430 B.C.). He is the subject of Arnold's early poetical drama, _Empedocles on Etna_, which he later suppressed for reasons which he states in the Preface to the _Poems_ of 1853. See _Selections_, pp. 1-3. [Transcriber's note: This approximates to the section following the text reference for Footnote 1 in this e-text.] [187] _Encheiridion_, chap. LII. [188] Ps. CXLIII, 10; incorrectly quoted. [189] Is. LX, 19. [190] Mal. IV, 2. [191] John I, 13. [192] John III, 5. PAGE 148 [193] 1 John V, 4. [194] Matt. XIX, 26. [195] 2 Cor. V, 17. [196] _Encheiridion_, chap. XLIII. [197] Matt. XVIII, 22. [198] Matt. XXII, 37-39, etc. PAGE 149 [199] ~George Long~ (1800-79), classical scholar. He published _Selections from Plutarch's Lives_, 1862; _Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius_, 1862; etc. [200] ~Thomas Arnold~ (1795-1842), English clergyman and headmaster of Rugby School, father of Matthew Arnold. PAGE 150 [201] ~Jeremy Collier~ (1650-1726). His best-known work is his _Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage_, 1698, a sharp and efficacious attack on the Post-Restoration drama. _The Emperor M. Aurelius Antoninus, his Conversation with himself_, appeared in 1701. PAGE 151 [202] _Meditations_, III, 14. PAGE 152 203. ~Antoninus Pius~. Roman Emperor, A.D. 138-161, and foster-father of M. Aurelius. [204] To become current in men's speech.