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230 NOTES 8 6. Titan. The Titans were a race of giants, children of Uranus (heaven) and Gaea (earth), who made war against the Olympian deities. 8 6-7. Vaux's superhuman plot : the plot of Guido Vaux, or Guy Fawkes, and other conspirators to blow up the Houses of Parliament in 1605. 9 1. Herculaneum : one of the cities buried by the eruption of Vesuvius in A.D. 79. The first systematic excavations were made under French rule between 1806 and 1S15. 9 1. pounce-boxes : boxes with perforated lids ...for sprinkling a fine powder on manuscript to prevent the ink from spreading. 9 22. Cambro-Briton : a Welshman. Cambria was the legendary and ancient Latin name of Wales. 9 27. Maccaronies (properly spelled Macaronies) : the name usually applied to English fops during the later part of the eighteenth century. 10 1. Anderton's: a coffeehouse on Fleet Street. 10 14. Rosamond's Pond : a sheet of water in St. James Park, which was filled up in 1770. It was " long consecrated to disastrous love and elegiac poetry." " Fair Rosamond " was Jane Clifford, the mistress of Henry II, who, according to tradition, was compelled by the jealous Queen Eleanor to poison herself (1176).
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