“Haply thy sun, emerging, yet may shine,
      Thee to irradiate with meridian ray,” &c. &c.
]

[Footnote 80:  The first number of a monthly publication called “The Satirist,” in which there appeared afterwards some low and personal attacks upon him.]

[Footnote 81:  “Look out for a people entirely destitute of religion:  if you find them at all, be assured that they are but few degrees removed from brutes.”—­HUME.

The reader will find this avowal of Hume turned eloquently to the advantage of religion in a Collection of Sermons, entitled, “The Connexion of Christianity with Human Happiness,” written by one of Lord Byron’s earliest and most valued friends, the Rev. William Harness.]

[Footnote 82:  The only thing remarkable about Walsh’s preface is, that Dr. Johnson praises it as “very judicious,” but is, at the same time, silent respecting the poems to which it is prefixed.]

[Footnote 83:  Characters in the novel called Percival.]

[Footnote 84:  This appeal to the imagination of his correspondent was not altogether without effect.—­“I considered,” says Mr. Dallas, “these letters, though evidently grounded on some occurrences in the still earlier part of his life, rather as jeux d’esprit than as a true portrait.”]

[Footnote 85:  He appears to have had in his memory Voltaire’s lively account of Zadig’s learning:  “Il savait de la metaphysique ce qu’on en a su dans tous les ages,—­c’est a dire, fort peu de chose,” &c.]

[Footnote 86:  The doctrine of Hume, who resolves all virtue into sentiment.—­See his “Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals.”]

[Footnote 87:  See his Letter to Anthony Collins, 1703-4, where he speaks of “those sharp heads, which were for damning his book, because of its discouraging the staple commodity of the place, which in his time was called hogs’ shearing.”]

[Footnote 88:  Hard, “Discourses on Poetical Imitation.”]

[Footnote 89:  Prologue to the University of Oxford.]

[Footnote 90:  “’Tis a quality very observable in human nature, that any opposition which does not entirely discourage and intimidate us, has rather a contrary effect, and inspires us with a more than ordinary grandeur and magnanimity.  In collecting our force to overcome the opposition, we invigorate the soul, and give it an elevation with which otherwise it would never have been acquainted.”—­Hume, Treatise of Human Nature.]

[Footnote 91:  “The colour of our whole life is generally such as the three or four first years in which we are our own masters make it.”—­Cowper.]

[Footnote 92:  “I refer to my old friend and corporeal pastor and master, John Jackson, Esq., Professor of Pugilism, who I trust still retains the strength and symmetry of his model of a form, together with his good humour and athletic, as well as mental, accomplishments.”—­Note on Don Juan, Canto II.]