text:  These will not be found of any very formidable extent; and as the poem itself is not of a considerable length we trust that the various passages which these quotations are adduced to illustrate will be sufficiently perceptible without our submitting to the necessity of appending them in the form of marginal annotations or foot-notes a necessity which would force us to load the text with those unsightly appendages to books in general and to poetry in particular--the asterisks and daggers of marginal reference