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NOTES


ON THE SECOND PART.



NOTE I.

In floating visions round your Darwin's head.

DR. Erasmus Darwin, the author of the Botanic Garden. Well may he exclaim with Lucretius

   ———Juvat integros accedere fonteisAtque haurire; juvatque novos decerpere flores;Insignemque meo capiti petere inde coronam;Unde prius nulli velârunt tempora musæ.LIB. I. 921.