rose in me, and made me wish to do likewise.
CXI.
“The churl in spirit” may be found in all ranks of society. Even the king, holding the golden ball of state, may be “at heart a clown.”
The “coltish nature” will break out through all the disguises of fashion: but in Hallam
“God and nature met in light,
And thus he bore without abuse
The grand old name of gentleman,[80]
Defamed by every charlatan,
And soil’d with all ignoble use.”
CXII.
“High wisdom,” which judges ex cathedrâ, will condemn him for preferring “glorious insufficiencies” to “narrower perfectness.”
He esteems high purposes after what is unattained, as exhibited in Hallam’s shortened life, more than a complete fulfilment of lesser duties by the “lords of doom,” who rule in our social system, and are those that have free will, but less intellect.
His friend was “some novel power,” which
“Sprang up for ever at a touch,
And hope could never hope too much,
In watching thee from hour to hour.”