ON THE IDEAL
[223]. ‘Might ascend,’ etc. Henry V. Prologue. [224]. ‘Obscurity her curtain,’ etc. From a poem To the Honourable and Reverend F. C. in Dodsley’s Collection of Poems, vol. VI. (1758), p. 138. The poem (anonymously published) was written by Sneyd Davies (1709–1769), and was addressed to Frederick Cornwallis, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury. See The Gentleman’s Magazine, vol. I. p. 174, and Nichols’s Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century, vol. I. [226]. ‘Whose end,’ etc. Hamlet, Act III. Sc. 2. [228]. We have heard it observed, etc. By Coleridge, probably. See vol. IV. p. 217.