[582]. Op. cit., pp. 93-107, and more largely pp. 55-93.
[583]. Students of the Stagirite may be almost equally surprised to find Aristotle regarded as mainly, if not wholly, a critic of Form as opposed to Thought.
[584]. See vol. i. p. [165] sq.
[585]. It would be unfair to lay too much stress on his identification of Imagination and Fancy; but there is something tell-tale in it.
[586]. See vol. i. p. [118] sq.
[587]. Herr Hamelius, op. cit. sup., p. 103, and elsewhere, thinks much more highly of Steele than I do, and even makes him a “Romantic before Romanticism.” Steele’s temperament was undoubtedly Romantic, and both in essays and plays he displayed it; but he was not really critical.
[588]. In his Preface to the Second Part of the Poems (1690).
[589]. Of course he might, to some extent, have sheltered himself under Dryden’s own authority for all this.
[590]. I have thought it useless to give references to particular editions of the better known writings of Swift and Pope, as they are so numerous. Of their whole works there is, in the former case, no real standard, Scott’s being much inferior to his Dryden; but in the latter that of the late Mr Elwin and Mr Courthope is not likely soon to be superseded.
[591]. V. inf., p. [553 note].