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15 l OMRAHS... FROM AGRA AND LAHORE: There seems to be a reminiscence
here of Wordsworth's Prelude, Book X, 11. 18-20:
The Great Mogul, when he
Erewhile went forth from Agra or Lahore,
Rajahs and Omrahs in his train.
Omrah, which is not found in Century Dictionary, is itself really
plural of Arabic amir (ameer), a commander, nobleman.
15 23 THE 6TH OF EDWARD LONGSHANKS: a De Quinceyan jest, of course.
This wrould refer to a law of the sixth year of Edward I, or 1278, but
there are but fifteen chapters in the laws of that year.
16 8 NOT MAGNA LOQUIMUR,... BUT VIVIMUS: not "we speak great things,"
but "we live" them.
17 21 MARLBOROUGH FOREST is twenty-seven miles east of Bath, where De
Quincey attended school.
18 18 ULYSSES, ETC.: The allusion is, of course, to the slaughter of
the suitors of Penelope, his wife, by Ulysses, after his return. Cf.
Odyssey, Books XXI-XXII.
19 3 ABOUT WATERLOO: i.e. about 1815. This phrase is one of many that
indicate the deep impression made by this event upon the English mind.
Cf. p. 58.
19 17 "SAY, ALL OUR PRAISES," ETC.: Cf. Pope, Moral Essays: Epistle
III, Of the Use of Riches, II. 249-250:
But all our praises why should lords engross,
Rise, honest Muse! and sing the Man of Ross.
20 3 TURRETS: "Tourettes fyled rounde" appears in Chaucer's Knight's
Tale, 1.
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