y running along the inside of a rampart.

78 _chamade_: a signal given by drum, announcing surrender.

79 _a new reign_: George II died on October 25, 1760.

80 _a rag of quality_: Horace Walpole was a younger son of Sir Robert
Walpole (Earl of Orford).

81 _the Duke of Cumberland_: second son of George II.

_a dark brown adonis_: a kind of wig.

_the Duke of Newcastle_: the Prime Minister.

83 Goldsmith's _Citizen of the World_ consists of a series of letters
on European manners and customs, purporting to be written by a Chinaman
who has never before visited England.

86 _whatever accidentally becomes indisposed, etc_.; i.e. whoever
falls out with the authorities.

87 _There never was a period, etc_.: this was written in 1777, during
the American War of Independence.

90 'Puss' was Cowper's tame hare.

92 The initials at the foot of the letter are those of William Cowper
and Mary Unwin, a friend of the poet's.

99 _David Garrick_: the celebrated actor (1717-1779).

100 Frank Osbaldistone, the hero of Scott's novel _Rob Roy_, goes to
Yorkshire on a visit to his uncle, Sir Hildebrand Osbaldistone, whom he
has never seen. As he approaches his destination he falls in with a
young lady on horseback, who turns out to be Diana Vernon, a niece of
Sir Hildebrand's. The period of the story is early in the eighteenth
century.

106 _The 'Festin de pierre'_: Moliere's play, in which the hero, Don
Juan, rashly invites the statue of a man he has murdered to dine with
him. The invitation is unexpectedly accepted.

107 Coleridge, the poet, was an old friend and school-fellow of
Charles Lamb's.

109 An imaginary dialogue between the two philosophers. Plato, born
427 B.C., was some years the older of the two.

111 Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, with whom Plato had lived for a
time, was overthrown and expelled by his subjects, and driven to
support himself as a schoolmaster at Corinth.

_The Demiurgos_: the Creator.

113 Mrs Elton, in Jane Austen's novel _Emma_, is the somewhat
meddlesome wife of the village parson. Mr Knightley is a gentleman
living at Donwell, in the neighbourhood. The rest of the people named
are other neighbours and friends, one of them, Mr Woodhouse, being an
old gentleman of valetudinarian habits.

118 Coleridge, as a young man (he was born in 1772), was for a time in
the habit of preaching in Unitarian chapels.

122 This is an ex