Footnotes
[498:1] Wordsworth, in his Notes to "We are Seven," claims to have written this line.
[498:2] Coleridge says: "For these lines I am indebted to Mr. Wordsworth."
His favourite sin
Is pride that apes humility.
Southey: The Devil's Walk.
[503:1] See Shakespeare, page [57].
And Iliad and Odyssey
Rose to the music of the sea.
Thalatta, p. 133. (From the German of Stolberg.)
[504:1] Sed ita a principio inchoatum esse mundum ut certis rebus certa signa præcurrerent (Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events).—Cicero: Divinatione, liber i. cap. 52.
Coming events cast their shadows before.—Campbell: Lochiel's Warning.
Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.—Shelley: A Defence of Poetry.
[504:2] "A phrase," says Coleridge, "which I have borrowed from a Greek monk, who applies it to a patriarch of Constantinople."
[504:3] See Burton, page [185].
[504:4] See Wordsworth, page [481].
[505:1] Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.—Shelley: Fragments of Adonais.
You know who critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.—Disraeli: Lothair, chap. xxxv.
JOSIAH QUINCY. 1772-1864
If this bill [for the admission of Orleans Territory as a State] passes, it is my deliberate opinion that it is virtually a dissolution of the Union; that it will free the States from their moral obligation; and, as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, definitely to prepare for a separation,—amicably if they can, violently if they must.[505:2]
Abridged Cong. Debates, Jan. 14, 1811. Vol. iv. p. 327.