CHAPTER X
October 26. Numbered XI.
157. Inigo Jones. The architect of Lincoln’s Inn Chapel, the banqueting-house at Whitehall, St. Paul’s Church, Covent-Garden, etc. (1573–1652).
The famous passage in Burke. A Letter to a Noble Lord (Works, Bohn, V. 137).
Mr. Jerdan. William Jerdan (1782–1869), editor of the Tory Sun (1813–1817), and then associated for many years with the Literary Gazette.
The painful warrior. Shakespeare, Sonnet XXV.
[159]. What though the radiance. Wordsworth, Ode, Intimations of Immortality [taken from my sight.... Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower.]
The burden and the mystery. Wordsworth’s Tintern Abbey.
The worst ... returns to good. Cf. ‘the worst returns to laughter,’ King Lear, Act IV. Sc. 1.
And bring with thee [and add to these] retired Leisure. Il Penseroso, 49.
Nature to advantage drest. Pope, Essay on Criticism, Part II. 97.
Paradise of dainty devices. The name given to a collection of poems published 1576 and various times later.
The Frenchman’s darling. Cowper, The Task, IV. 765.
[161]. With glistering spires. Paradise Lost, III. 550.
Low farms and [poor] pelting villages. King Lear, Act II. Sc. 3.
[162]. But let thy spiders. King Richard II., Act III. Sc. 2 [treacherous feet ... thy sovereign’s enemies].
Bear the beating of so strong a passion. Twelfth Night, Act II. Sc. 4.