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226 ["Before the inauguration of a better taste by Mickiewicz and

other great writers, the so-called French or Classical school of

literature in Poland produced a quantity of panegyrics or

complimentary verses in honour of great personages, with stale

classical images, and strained, far-fetched metaphors, destitute

of real poetry. Our author has seized this happy opportunity of

satirising the faults of classicism."-M. A. Biggs.]

227 ["Janissaries' music, a type of extraordinarily noisy Turkish

martial music, was fashionable in eastern Europe in the

eighteenth century, and was introduced into

Poland."-Jaroszynski.]

228 [See p. 333.]

229 [See p. 334.]