Who boasts of more (believe the serious strain)

Sighs for a home, and sighs, alas! in vain.

Thro' each he roves, the tenant of a day,

And, with the swallow, wings the year away!""

NOTES.

NOTE a. Page 91, 1. 1.

Oft o'er the mead, at pleasing distance, pass—

COSMO of Medicis delighted most in his Apennine villa, because all that he commanded from its windows was exclusively his own.

How unlike the wise Athenian, who, when he had a farm to sell, directed the cryer to proclaim, as its best recommendation, that it had a good neighbourhood! PLUT. in Vit. Themist.

And, thro' the various year, the various day—

Horace commends the house, 'longos quæ prospicit agros.'

Distant views contain the greatest variety, both in themselves, and in their accidental variations.

GILPIN on the High-Lands of Scotland.

NOTE C. P. 93, 1. 5.

Small change of scene, small space his home requires—

Many a great man, in passing through the apartments of his palace, has made the melancholy reflection of the venerable Cosmo: "Questa è troppo gran casa à si poco famiglia."

MACH. Ist. Fior. lib. vii. "Parva, sed apta mihi," was Ariosto's inscription over his door in Ferrara; and who can wish to say more?

"I confess," says Cowley, "I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a very little feast." Essay vi. So also says the Conqueror of Silesia!

Petit bien, qui ne doit rien,

Petite maison, petite table, &c.

When Socrates was asked why he had built for himself so small a house, "Small as it is," he replied, "I wish I could fill it with friends."

PHÆDRUS, 1. iii. 9.

These indeed are all that a wise man would de

sire to assemble; "for a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."

BACON's Essays, xxvii.

NOTE d. P. 93, 1. 8.

From every point a ray of genius flows!

By this means, when the heavens are filled with clouds, when the earth swims in rain, and all nature wears a lowering countenance, I withdraw myself from these uncomfortable scenes into the visionary worlds of art; where I meet with shining landscapes, gilded triumphs, beautiful faces, and all those other objects that fill the mind with gay ideas, &c. ADDISON.

It is remarkable that Antony, in his adversity, passed some time in a small but splendid retreat, which he called his Timonium, and from which

might originate the idea of the Parisian Boudoir, that favourite apartment, ou l'on se retire pour être seul, mais ou l'on ne boude point.

STRABO, 1. xvii. PLUT. in Vit. Anton.

NOTE e. P. 94, 1. 7.

O mark! again the coursers of the Sun,

At GUIDO's call, &c.

Alluding to his celebrated fresco in the Rospigliosi Palace at Rome.

NOTE f. P. 94, 1. 15.

And still the Few best lov'd and most rever'd—

The dining-room is dedicated to Conviviality; or, as Cicero somewhere expresses it, "Communitati vitæ atque victûs." There we wish most for the society of our friends; and, perhaps, in their absence, most require their portraits.