Speeches: Literary and Social, page 219 by Charles Dickens
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>{11} Alas! the "many years" were to be barely six, when the speaker was himself destined to write some memorial pages commemorative of his illustrious friend (Cornhill Magazine, February, 1864.)--ED.
{12} Mr. Henry Dodd had proposed to give five acres of land in Berkshire, but, in consequence of his desiring to attach certain restrictions, after a long and unsatisfactory correspondence, the Committee, on 13th January following, rejected the offer. (Communicated.)
{13} Claude Melnotte in The Lady of Lyons, Act iii. sc. 2.
{14} Mr. B. Webster.
{15} Romeo and Juliet, Act III. Sc. 1.
{16} Robert Browning: Bells and Pomegranates.
{17} R. H.
{18} Carlyle's French Revolution. Book X.,
Chapter I.
{19} Henry Thomas Buckle.
{20} This and the Speeches which follow were accidentally omitted in their right places.
{21} Hazlitt's Round Table (Edinburgh, 1817, vol ii., p. 242), On Actors and Acting.
{22} An allusion to a well-known Sonnet of Wordsworth, beginning-- "The world is too much with us--late and soon," &c.--ED.
{23} Alluding to the forthcoming serial story of Edwin Drood.
{24} The Honourable John Lothrop Motley.
{25} February 26th, 1851. Mr. Macready's Farewell Benefit at Drury Lane Theatre, on which occasion he played the part of Macbeth.--ED.
{26} MACBETH, Act I., sc. 7.
{27} The Bishop of Ripon (Dr. Longley).
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