The errors of this writer, however, as before observed, produced this great advantage; he recommenced his studies with greater care and increased ardour, and in the Gospel of St. John, discovered the truth — the truth, as Wordsworth powerfully sings,
"That flashed upon that inward eye,
Which is the bliss of solitude."
Having now discovered in the Scriptures this truth, to him at that time new and important, he pursued his philosophical researches — continually finding what he sought for in the one, borne out and elucidated by the other.
he had corrected the proof sheets of the
Christabel
, the
Sibylline Leaves
, and the
Biographia Literaria