In addition to Lord
Braybrooke's proofs that Sir Robert was not disabled by the stone, for
some days previous to the 24th, from waiting on the king, let me add
also, from Horace Walpole's authority, two conclusive facts; the first
is, that it was not till _Sunday night_, the 31st _January_ (_a week
after_ the date of the letter) that Sir Robert made up his mind to
resign; and, secondly, that he had at least two personal interviews
with the king on that subject.
C.
_Line quoted by De Quincey_.--"S.P.S." (No. 22. p. 351.) is informed
that
"With battlements that on their restless fronts
Bore stars"...
is a passage taken from a gorgeous description of "Cloudland" by
Wordsworth, which occurs near the end of the second book of the
Excursion. The opium-eater gives a long extract, as "S.P.S." probably
remembers.
A.G.
Ecclesfield, March 31. 1850.
_Quem Jupiter vult perdere prius dementat_.--Malone, in a note in
_Boswell's Johnson_ (p. 718., Croker's last edition), says, that
a gentleman of Cambridge found this apophthegm in an edition of
Euripides (not named) as a translation of an iambic.
"[Greek: On Theos Delei hapolesai, pr_ot' hapophrenoi.]"
The Latin translation the Cambridge gentleman might have found in
Barnes; but where is the _Greek_, so different from that of Barnes, to
be found? It is much nearer to the Latin.
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