[79: Scott, Introduction to The Abbot, 1831.]
[80: William Godwin: His Friends and
Contemporaries, 1876, vol. ii.
p. 304.]
[81: Caleb Williams, ch. x.]
[82: William Godwin: His Friends and
Contemporaries, vol. i. pp.
330-1.]
[83: Political Justice, bk. ii, ch. ii.]
[84: William Godwin: His Friends and
Contemporaries, vol. i. pp.
330-1; Preface to 1st
edition, 1799.]
[85: Hermippus Redivivus; or The Sage’s
Triumph over Old Age
and
the Grave (translated
from the Latin of Cohausen, with
annotations), 1743.
Dr. Johnson pronounced the volume “very
entertaining as an account
of the hermetic philosophy and as
furnishing a curious
history of the extravagancies of the
human
mind,” adding
“if it were merely imaginary it would be
nothing at
all.”]
[86: St. Leon, vol. iv. ch, xiii.]
[87: St. Leon, Bk. iv, ch. v.]
[88: Lives of the Necromancers, 1834,
Preface. “The main purpose
of
this book is to exhibit
a fair delineation of the credulity
of
the human mind.
Such an exhibition cannot fail to be
productive
of the most salutary
lessons.”]
[89: St. Godwin: A Tale of the 16th,
17th and 18th Century, by
Count
Reginald de St. Leon,
1800, p. 234.]
[90: Dowden, Life of Shelley, vol. i. p. 10.]
[91: Dowden, Life of Shelley, vol. i. p. 44.]
[92: Hogg, Life of Shelley, vol. i. p. 15.]
[93: Cf. Castle of Lindenberg story in The Monk, and ballad of Alonzo the Brave.]
[94: A versification of the story of the Wandering
Jew, Bleeding
Nun
and Don Raymond in The
Monk.]
[95: This poem was borrowed from Lewis’s
Tales of Terror
(without
Shelley’s knowledge),
where it is entitled The Black Canon
of
Elmham, or St. Edmond’s
Eve.]
[96: Letter to Edward Fergus Graham, Ap. 23,
1810 (Letters, ed.
Ingpen, 1909, vol. i,
pp. 4-6).]
[97: Letter to John Joseph Stockdale, Nov. 14, 1810.]
[98: Mme. de Montolieu, Caroline de Lichfield,
translated by
Thos.
Holcroft, 1786.]
[99: Mme. de Genlis, translated by Rev. Beresford, 1796.]
[100: Peter Middleton Darling, Romance of the Highlands, 1810.]
[101: Regina Maria Roche, The Discarded Son,
or The Haunt of the
Banditti,
1806.]
[102: Agnes Musgrave, Cicely, or The Rose of Raby.]
[103: Aphra Behn, The Nun.]
[104: Charlotte Smith, Ethelinde, or The Recluse of the Lake, 1790.]
[105: The Relapse: a novel, 1780.]