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{5} See p. 2.
{13} Article on 'British Novelists' in Fraser's Magazine, Jan. 1860.
{18} Major Rolla Rouse of Melton.
{22} His brother.
{23a} Dean of Westminster and afterwards Archbishop of Dublin.
{23b} Journal of Mrs. Trench, not then published.
{24} In 1872 he wrote to me: 'I hope that others have remembered and made note of A. T.'s sayings--which hit the nail on the head. Had I continued to be with him, I would have risked being called another Bozzy by the thankless World; and have often looked in vain for a Note Book I had made of such things.'
And again in 1876: 'He _said_, and I dare say, _says_ things to be remembered: decisive Verdicts; which I hope some one makes note of: post me memoranda.'
{25} In Fraser's Magazine for June 1861, 'On Translating Homer.'
{27} Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society for 1860, pp 1-17; published in 1861.
{29} [In the book the AT is a symbol made of a capital A, with a small T inside it with the bar of the T in the same position as the bar in the A.--D.P.]
{30} The Hon Stephen Spring Rice.
{34} Sat. III. 254.
{35a} Hermann's conjecture on Agam. 819.
{35b} Sat. VI. 460.
{37} As Greek Professor.
{40} At Ely
{47a} ? Forty.
{47b} The Cambridge Shakespeare.
{48a} Purgatorio, xxiii.
{48b} Euripides.
{50} Thackeray died 24 Dec. 1863.
{55} A copy by Laurence of his portrait of Thackeray.
{56a} Gainsborough's sketch of Dupont which Laurence copied.
{56b} Gainsborough, when dying, whispered to Reynolds, 'We are all going to heaven, and Vand.y.k.e is of the party.'
{58} By Professor Sellar in the Oxford Essays for 1855: reprinted in his Roman Poets of the Republic, 1863.
{59a} Late Archdeacon of Suffolk.
{59b} VI. 556.
{61} Pliny, Hist. Nat. ii. 5. FitzGerald quotes only a part of the pa.s.sage in the first scene of The Mighty Magician.
{62a} In June 1864.
{62b} The third was probably the Agamemnon.
{63} So by mistake for Woodbridge.
{68} Probably, as I am informed by Mr. Mowbray Donne, 'that when Lord Chatham met any Bishops he bowed so low that you could see the peak of his nose between his legs.'
{69a} Sappho, Fr. xlvi. (Gaisford).
{69b} P. 308.
{74} Quoted by the Scholiast on Theocritus, V. 65, and to be found in the editions of the Paroemiographi Graeci by Gaisford and Leutsch.
{77} Francis Duncan, Rector of West Chelborough.
{78a} See note, p. 110.
{78b} OEd. Tyr. 1076.
{78c} OEd. Col. 607.
{86} Sophocles, Ajax 674, 5.
{87a} Not Jocasta, but Alcmene.
{87b} Arist. Poet. 13, 10.
{88} Her son, the Suffolk Poet, says that in the decline of her life she 'observed to a relative with peculiar emphasis, that "to meet Winter, Old Age, and Poverty, was like meeting three great giants."' For 'Sickness'
FitzGerald at first had written 'Old Age.'
{91} Article in the Athenaeum of 2nd Feb. 1867 on Donne's edition of the Correspondence of George III. and Lord North.
{97a} Delivered 23rd Oct. 1867.
{97b} By Emanuel Deutsch.
{102} By Leslie Stephen.
{104} Who said that the description of the boat race with which Euphranor ends was one of the most beautiful pieces of English prose.
{105} Referring to The Two Generals, Letters and Literary Remains, vol.
