[ [264] {223}[The thread on which the successive tropes or images are loosely strung seems to give if not to snap at this point. "Considering that Mazeppa was sprung of a race which in moments of excitement, when an enemy has stamped upon its vitals, springs up to repel the attack, it was only to be expected that he should sink beneath the blow—and sink he did." The conclusion is at variance with the premiss.]
[ [265] {224}[Compare—
"'Alas,' said she, 'this ghastly ride,
Dear Lady! it hath wildered you.'"
Christabel, Part I. lines 216, 217.]
[ [266] {225}[Compare—
"How long in that same fit I lay,
I have not to declare."
Ancient Mariner, Part V. lines 393, 394.]
[ [267] [Compare—
"From precipices of distempered sleep."
Sonnet, "No more my visionary soul shall dwell," by S. T. Coleridge, attributed by Southey to Favell.—Letters of S. T. Coleridge, 1895, i. 83; Southey's Life and Correspondence, 1849, i. 224.]