THE VATICAN
From The New Monthly Magazine, November 1827. It was published later in the volume of Hazlitt’s Literary Remains, 1836.
359. L. Landor [W. C. Hazlitt].
[360]. With hideous ruin. Paradise Lost, I. 46.
[361]. Divinæ particula [particulam] auræ. Horace, Sat. II. 2.
The rapt soul. Il Penseroso, 40.
Seer blest. Paradise Lost, XII. 553.
As a book where one may read strange matters. Macbeth, Act I. Sc. 5.
Neither the cloud by day nor the pillar of fire. Exodus xiii. 21.
[362]. His bodies thought.
‘——so distinctly wrought
That one might almost say, her body thought.’
John Donne: An Anatomy of the World, Second Anniversary, 245–6.
[363]. A fiery soul. Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, I. 156.
[365]. Hope elevates, and joy brightens their every feature [his crest]. Paradise Lost, IX. 633.
[366]. On his front engraven thought [deliberation sat]. Ibid., II. 302.
Scattered like stray-gifts. Wordsworth, Stray Pleasures.
[366]. Stately height though bare. Cf. Paradise Lost, I. 723:
‘The ascending pile
Stood fixed her stately highth.’
[367]. Cosmo Comyne Bradwardine. Waverley, vol. II. chap. 28.
Fergus MacIvor. Ibid. vol. II. chap. 40.