SELF-LOVE AND BENEVOLENCE
These two papers were republished in Sketches and Essays (1839), but were omitted in the second edition (1852). Mr. W. C. Hazlitt restored them in his edition in Bohn’s Standard Library, where he states that they were written in Italy in 1825, and represent a conversation between the author, Landor and Captain Medwin.
PAGE [96]. ‘Sound significant.’ Hazlitt was perhaps thinking of Milton’s words, ‘the sound symphonious.’ Paradise Lost, VII. 558. ‘These needs,’ etc. Hamlet, Act I. Sc. 5. [99]. ‘Nihil humani,’ etc. Terence, Heauton-Timoroumenos, I. 1. ‘Greater love,’ etc. Cf. St. John XV. 13. [102]. ‘Letting I should not,’ etc. Cf. Macbeth, Act I. Sc. 7. [104]. ‘Throw honour,’ etc. Cf. Ibid. Act V. Sc. 3.