ON MEANS AND ENDS
Published in Literary Remains with many variations presumably introduced by the editor, and again in the same form in Winterslow.
PAGE [184]. ‘We work by wit,’ etc. Othello, Act II. Sc. 3. [185]. ‘Leaps at once,’ etc. Cowper, The Task, V. 686. ‘From Indus,’ etc. Pope, Eloisa to Abelard, 58. [187]. Hinc illæ lachrymæ. Horace, Epistles, I. xix. 41. [188]. ‘Constrained by mastery.’ Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, The Franklin’s Tale, 36; Wordsworth quotes the line in The Excursion, VI. 162–5. [189]. ‘Makes a sunshine,’ etc. The Faerie Queene, I. iii. 4. [190]. David’s and Girodet’s pictures. Jacques Louis David (1748–1825) and Anne Louis Girodet (1767–1824). ‘Potations, pottle-deep.’ Othello, Act II. Sc. 3. [192]. ‘In a phantasma,’ etc. Julius Cæsar, Act II. Sc. 1. ‘Courage,’ etc. Paradise Lost, I. 108. [193]. ‘His thoughts,’ etc. Cf. Ibid., IX. 467. Note. Strong passion, etc. Cf. The Rambler, No. 1. Note. ‘The lunatic,’ etc. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act V. Sc. 1. [194]. ‘Set but a Scotsman,’ etc. Cf. Burns, The Author’s Earnest Cry and Prayer, Postscript, St. 4. ‘And it alone,’ etc. Cf. Twelfth Night, Act I. Sc. 1. ‘We read his works.’ Lamb’s Essay ‘On the Genius and Character of Hogarth’ (Works, ed. E. V. Lucas, I. 71).