ON THE SPIRIT OF PARTISANSHIP
Published in Sketches and Essays (1839).
[521]. ‘Ever strong,’ etc. King John, Act III. Sc. 1. [522]. ‘In their generation,’ etc. Cf. S. Luke xvi. 8. ‘The milk of human kindness.’ Macbeth, Act I. Sc. 5. ‘Stuff o’ the conscience.’ Othello, Act I. Sc. 2. ‘Turned to the stroke,’ etc. Cowper, The Task, The Time-Piece, 324–5. [523]. ‘Though sun and moon,’ etc. Comus, 374–5. ‘To do a great right,’ etc. The Merchant of Venice, Act IV. Sc. 1. [524]. ‘The very arm,’ etc. Cf. Antony and Cleopatra, Act I. Sc. 5. ‘Entire affection scorneth [hateth],’ etc. The Faerie Queene, I. VIII. 40. ‘Our bane,’ etc. Addison, Cato, V. 1. ‘Screwed to the sticking place.’ Cf. Macbeth, Act I. Sc. 7. ‘Away to Heaven,’ etc. Romeo and Juliet, Act III. Sc. 1. [525]. ‘To grinning scorn.’
‘To bitter Scorn a sacrifice,
And grinning infamy.’
Gray, On a Distant Prospect of Eton College, 73–4.