[253] Melincourt, 108.
[254] Nightmare Abbey, 23. That this was a typical experience is well known. Cf. Browning’s Lost Leader.
[255] Ibid., 49.
[256] Melincourt, 80. In his Review of Southey’s Colloquies of Society, Macaulay points out the Laureate’s two unique faculties,—“of believing without a reason, and of hating without a provocation.”
[257] Quoted in his biography, by the Earl of Lytton, I, 347.
The Ettrick Shepherd tries to rally Tickler out of his glumness by the argument,—“Everybody kens ye’re a man of genius, without your pretending to be melancholy.”
[258] Beauchamp’s Career, 39.
[259] Both are quoted in the Life by the Earl of Lytton, I, 548, 549.
[260] Journey to Parnassus, Chapter IV. Gibson’s translation.
[261] Spectator, 451, C.