“La maraviglia
Dell’ ignoranza e la figlia
E del sapere
La madre.”
[180] Mr. Mill was the first to point out the soliloquising character of poetry.—Essays and Dissertations.
[181] Coleridge, Aids to Reflection.
[182] Nodier.
[183] See Précieux et Précieuses par Ch. L. Livet. 12o, 1860. Masson’s Introduction to French Literature, ch. iv.
[184] “And the regeneration of a people is always accompanied by a rekindled interest in its early literature.” We can hardly overrate the effect produced by the publication of Bishop Percy’s Reliques, and much may be hoped from the reproduction of the old romancers, &c., in Spanish, of late years.
[185] Essay on Human Understanding, III. i. 5.