[720]
'More constant to myself, I leave with pain,
By hateful business forced, the rural scene.'
FRANCIS. Horace, Epist., I. 14. 16.
[721] See ante, p. 167.
[722] Fox, it should be remembered, was Johnson's junior by nearly forty years.
[723] See ante, i. 413, ii. 214, and Boswell's Hebrides, Oct. 2.
[724] See ante, i. 478.
[725] 'Who can doubt,' asks Mr. Forster, 'that he also meant slowness of motion? The first point of the picture is that. The poet is moving slowly, his tardiness of gait measuring the heaviness of heart, the pensive spirit, the melancholy of which it is the outward expression and sign.' Forster's Goldsmith, i. 369.
[726] See ante, ii. 5.
[727] Essay on Man, ii. 2.