[946]. This idol had already had notice to quit. The Essay is of 1855, when it originally appeared in Cambridge Essays. Matthew Arnold’s admirable Preface is two years older.
[947]. The “Wordsworth” is some years earlier than the “Tennyson.” It appeared in Fraser during the summer of 1851.
[948]. He will reappear in the Appendix devoted to holders of the Oxford Chair of Poetry.
[949]. In Friends in Council.
[950]. I have slipped from N to O: but it is only next door.
[951]. London, 1902.
[952]. Essays and Reviews, London, 1876. The other papers—on Macaulay, Carlyle, Ruskin, George Eliot—are good, but not so good, and show that difficulty of the mid-century critic in “sticking to literature,” which is the theme of this chapter.
[953]. London, 1866.
[954]. London, 1866.
[955]. That which amused me most is the employment, with the difference, of the cat-girl simile [v. sup., [ii. 550]]. I am sure I did not take it from him; and if we both took it from somebody else (to adopt the comfortable principles of Miss Teresa M’Whirter at the conclusion of A Legend of the Rhine), I do not know who the somebody else was.