[1137]. My copy, which is “from the author” to some one unknown, has not a few pen-corrections, apparently in his own hand.
[1138]. Vol. ii. p. 372.
[1139]. It is particularly unfortunate that he has endeavoured to construct a theory of Longinus as a statesman-critic, comparing him with Burke. I have already said that I do not think the identification of the author of the book with Zenobia’s prime minister in the least disproved or (with the materials at present at disposal) disprovable: but it certainly is not proved to the point of serving as basis to such a theory.
[1140]. With reference to Schlegel and Madame de Staël.
[1141]. His sermons have been disrespectfully spoken of; but I think unjustly. I heard them myself in pretty close juxtaposition with those of Pusey and Wilberforce, and even with the, in both senses, rare discourses of Mansel. In vigour and body they were nowhere beside any of these; but they could fairly hold their own in the softer ways of style.
[1142]. First Series (comprising the “Inaugural,” with two others on “Provincial Poetry” and The Dream of Gerontius), London, 1869. A second appeared in 1877.
[1143]. Aspects of Poetry (London, 1881), p. 30.
[1144]. Ibid., p. 157.
[1145]. How entirely uncritical he was may be judged from the fact that he brackets Voltaire and Diderot as apostles of the Aufklärung in an anti-Romantic sense.