No form, no shadow but new dearness took
From the one thought that life must have an end;
And the last parting now began to send
Diffusive dread through love and wedded bliss,
Thrilling them into finer tenderness.‘
[181] III., 59 ff.
[182] Ethic., Pars. IV., Prop. vii.
[183] Ethic. Nic., III., xii., 1117, b, 10 ff. Sir Alexander Grant, in his note on the passage, appositely compares the character of Wordsworth’s Happy Warrior, who is ‘More brave for this that he has much to love.’
[184] For the authorities, see Zeller, p. 388.
[185] Lucret., IV., 354, 728, 761.