Lismore Papers, 2nd Series, vol. v. pp. 19-24.
Footnote 355: Lismore Papers, 2nd Series, vol. v. pp. 72, 97, 121.
Footnote 356: Three Diatribes or Discourses, London, 1671.
Footnote 357: The Compleat Gentleman, London, 1678.
Footnote 358: The Compleat Gentleman, p. 3.
Footnote 359: Albert Babeau, Les Voyageurs en France, Paris, 1885, p.
175.
Footnote 360: M. Adrien Delahaute, Une Famille de Finance an XVIII.
Siecle, vol. i. p. 434.
Footnote 361: George Sandys, A Relation of a Journey begun in An. Dom.
1610, London, 1615.
Footnote 362: John Evelyn, Diary and Correspondence, ed. Bray, London,
1906, vol. i. p. 77.
Footnote 363: Ibid., p. 78.
Footnote 364: Balthazar Gerbier, Subsidium Peregrinantibus, Oxford,
1665.
Footnote 365: Letter to his Son, Feb. 22, 1748.
Footnote 366: Ibid., Oct. 2, O.S., 1747.
Footnote 367: Letter to his Son, Oct. 9, O.S., 1747.
Footnote 368: Lausanne was where Edward Gibbon received the education he
considered far superior to what could be had from Oxford. When he
returned to England, after four years, he missed the "elegant and
rational society" of Lausanne, and could not love London - "the noisy and
expensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without
pleasure."
Footnote 369: Letter to his Son, April 12, O.S., 1749.
Footnote 370: Ibid., Sept. 22, O.S., 1749.
Footnote 371: Ibid., Sept. 5, O.S., 1749.
Footnote 372: Letter to his Son, Nov. 8, O.S., 1750.
Footnote 373: Letter to his Son, May 10, O.S., 1748.
Footnote 374: Letter to his Son, April 30, O.S., 1750.
Footnote 375: Letters from Paris, Sept. 22, 26; Oct. 3, 6, 1765.
Footnote 376: A Character of England, As it was lately presented in a
Letter to a Noble Man of France, London, 1659.
Footnote 377: See Voltaire, Lettres Philosophiques, tome ii. p. 272,
ed. Gustave Lanson, Paris, 1909.
Footnote 378:
"The merest John Trot in a week you shall see
Bien poli, bien frize, tout a fait un Marquis."
(Samuel Foote, Dramatic Works, vol. i. p. 47.)
The Hon. James Howard, The English Mounsieur, London, 1674; Sir George
Etherege, Sir Fopling Flutter, Love in a Tub, Act III. Sc. iv.
The Abbe le Blanc on visiting England was very indignant at the
representation of his countrymen on the London stage: he describes how,
"Two actors came in, one dressed in the English manner very decently,
and the other with black eye-brows, a riband an ell long under his chin,
a big peruke immoderately powdered, and his nose all bedaubed with
snuff. What Englishman could not know a Frenchman by this ridiculous
picture?... But when it was found that the man thus equipped, being also
laced down every seam of his coat, was nothing but a cook, the
spectators were equally charmed and surprised. The author had taken care
to make him speak all the impertinences he could devise.... There was a
long criticism upon our manners, our customs and above all, our cookery.
The excellence and virtues of English beef were cried up; the author
maintained that it was owing to the quality of its juice that the
English were so courageous, and had such a solidity of understanding
which raised them above all the nations of Europe" (E. Smith, Foreign
Visitors In England, London, 1889, pp. 193-4).
Footnote 379: Samuel Foote, Dramatic Works, vol. i. p. 7.
Footnote 380: Ibid.
Footnote 381:
"Let Paris be the theme of Gallia's Muse
Where Slav'ry treads the Streets in wooden shoes."
(Gay, Trivia.)
Footnote 382: Joseph Addison, A Letter from Italy, London, 1709.
Footnote 383: Samuel Johnson, London: A Poem.
Footnote 384: Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, Letters to
his Son, London, 1774; vol. ii. p. 123; vol. iii. p. 308.
Footnote 385: Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, A Dialogue concerning
Education, in A Collection of Several Tracts, London, 1727.
Footnote 386: Ibid., Dialogue of The Want of Respect Due to Age, pp.
295-6.
Footnote 387: John Locke, Some Thoughts concerning Education, London,
1699, pp. 356-7, 375-7.
Footnote 388: John Locke, Some Thoughts concerning Education, London,
1699, pp. 356-7, 375-7.
Footnote 389: Ibid.
Footnote 390: As Cowper says in The Progress of Error:
"From school to Cam or Isis, and thence home:
And thence with all convenient speed to Rome.
With reverend tutor clad in habit lay,
To tease for cash and quarrel with all day:
With memorandum-book for every town,
And every post, and where the chaise broke down."
Foote's play, An Englishman in Paris, represents in the character of
the pedantic prig named Classick, the sort of university tutor who was
sometimes substituted for the parson, as an appropriate guardian.
Footnote 391: The Bear-Leaders, London, 1758.
Footnote 392: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu met many of these pairs at Rome,
where she writes that, by herding together and throwing away their money
on worthless objects, they had acquired the title of Golden Asses, and
that Goldoni adorned his dramas with "gli milordi Inglesi" in the same
manner as Moliere represented his Parisian marquises (Letters, ed.
Wharncliffe, London, 1893, vol. ii. p. 327).
Footnote 393: William Congreve, The Way of the World, Act III. Sc. xv.
Footnote 394: Philip Thicknesse, Observations on the Customs and
Manners of the French Nation, London, 1766, p. 3.
Footnote 395: Thomas Gray the poet.
Footnote 396: Horace Walpole, Letters, ed. Cunningham, London, 1891,
vol. i. p. 24.
Footnote 397: Thomas Gray, Letters, ed. Tovey, Cambridge University
Press, 1890, pp. 38, 44, 68.
Footnote 398: James Howell, Instructions for Forraine Travell, p. 25
(Arber Reprint).
Footnote 399: Ibid., Epistolae Ho-Elianae, ed. Jacobs, 1892, vol. i. p.
95.
The Renaissance traveller had little commendation for a land that was
not fruitful, rich with grains and orchards. A landscape that suggested
food was to him the fairest landscape under heaven. Far from being an
admirer of mountains, he was of the opinion of Dr Johnson that "an eye
accustomed to flowery pastures and waving harvests is astonished and
repelled by this wide extent of hopeless sterility" and that "this
uniformity of barrenness can afford very little amusement to the
traveller" (Works, ed.
