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{8} The Duke of Devonshire.
{9} Charlotte Corday going to Execution.
{10} The above is extracted from Mrs. Stowe's "Sunny Memories of
Foreign Lands,", a book in which her eaves-dropping propensities
were already developed in a sufficiently ugly form.--ED.
{11} Alas! the "many years" were to be barely six, when the
speaker was himself destined to write some memorial pages
commemorative of his illustrious friend (Cornhill Magazine,
February, 1864.)--ED.
{12} Mr. Henry Dodd had proposed to give five acres of land in
Berkshire, but, in consequence of his desiring to attach certain
restrictions, after a long and unsatisfactory correspondence, the
Committee, on 13th January following, rejected the offer.
(Communicated.)
{13} Claude Melnotte in The Lady of Lyons, Act iii. sc. 2.
{14} Mr. B. Webster.
{15} Romeo and Juliet, Act III. Sc. 1.
{16} Robert Browning: Bells and Pomegranates.
{17} R. H.
{18} Carlyle's French Revolution. Book X., Chapter I.
{19} Henry Thomas Buckle.
{20} This and the Speeches which follow were accidentally omitted
in their right places.
{21} Hazlitt's Round Table (Edinburgh, 1817, vol ii., p. 242), On
Actors and Acting.
{22} An allusion to a well-known Sonnet of Wordsworth, beginning--
"The world is too much with us--late and soon," &c.--ED.
{23} Alluding to the forthcoming serial story of Edwin Drood.
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