[1117]. London, 1826.
[1118]. See Beddoes’ Letters (ed. Gosse, London, 1894), p. 68: “Mr Milman (our poetry professor) has made me quite unfashionable here by denouncing me as one of a ‘villainous school.’” These Letters are crammed with matter of literary and critical interest. I was much tempted to give them a place in the text as illustrating the critical opinions of a person in whom great wits and madness were rather blended than allied; in the transition generation—the mezzanine floor—of 1800-1830.
[1119]. Prælectiones Academicæ Oxonii habitæ annis 1832-41. Oxford, 1844. 2 vols., but continuously paged.
[1120]. Occasional Papers and Reviews, by John Keble, M.A. Oxford and London, 1877.
[1121]. Occ. Pap., p. 62.
[1122]. The place most perilously aleatory is the fling in Occ. Pap., p. 87, at “Mr Leigh Hunt and his miserable followers.”
[1123]. Occ. Pap., p. 6.
[1124]. Ibid., p. 150.
[1125]. Ibid., pp. 98-102.
[1126]. Those who make the contrast will, however, I think, find out that Arnold owes more to his forerunner than might be gathered from his published lectures.