Part 53 (1/2)

[Footnote 326: A Glance at the Passion Play, 1881]

[Footnote 327: The Passion Play at Ober A, 3 vol, Tinsley 1880 Brit Mus 12640 i 7]

[Footnote 329: See Chapter xx, 96 Maria Stisted died 12th November 1878]

[Footnote 330: See Chapter xli]

[Footnote 331: Only an admirer of Omar Khayyam could have written The Kasidah, observes Mr Justin McCarthy, junior; but the only Omar Khayyam that Burton knew previous to 1859, was Edward FitzGerald I am positive that Burton never read Omar Khayyainal at all]

[Footnote 332: For exalad, this ister should write this day a day, that day a day”

Ah, he himself quotes this as from Hafiz in a letter to Sir Walter Besant See Literary Remains of Tyrwhitt Drake, p 16 See also Chapter ix]

[Footnote 333: We use the word by courtesy]

[Footnote 334: See Life, ii, 467, and end of 1st voluhts Burton estion that they are founded upon the original of Omar Khayyam Indeed, it is probable that Burton had never, before the publication of The Kasidah, even heard of the original, for he iined like J A Symonds and others, that FitzGerald's version was a fairly literal translation When, therefore, he speaks of Omar Khayyam he means Edward FitzGerald I have dealt with this subject exhaustively in my Life of Edward FitzGerald]

[Footnote 335: Couplet 186]

[Footnote 336: Preserved in the Museum at Camberwell It is inserted in a copy of Ca sided with Prussia in the war of 1866 received as her reward the long coveted territory of Venice]

[Footnote 338: Born 1844 Appointed to the costone, 1872 Crossed Africa 1875]

[Footnote 339: ”Burton as I knew him,” by V L Cameron]

[Footnote 340: Nearly all his friends noticed this feature in his character and have remarked it to me]

[Footnote 341: The number is dated 5th November 1881 Mr Payne had published specimens of his proposed Translation, anonymously, in the New Quarterly Review for January and April, 1879]

[Footnote 342: This was a ht he had texts of the whole, but, as we shall presently show, there were several texts which up to this time he had not seen His attention, as his letters indicate, was first drawn to theht of what follows, this re]

[Footnote 344: See Chapter xxiii, 107]

[Footnote 345: In the Masque of Shadows]

[Footnote 346: New Poems, p 19]

[Footnote 347: The Masque of Shadows, p 59]

[Footnote 348: Published 1878]

[Footnote 349: New Poems, p 179]

[Footnote 350: Published 1871]

[Footnote 351: Mr Watts-Dunton, the Earl of Crewe, and Dr Richard Garnett have also written enthusiastically of Mr Payne's poetry]