[30] Reynolds and Rice.
[31] Sic: for “unpaid”?
“She disappear’d, and left me dark: I waked
To find her, or for ever to deplore
Her loss, and other pleasures all abjure:
When, out of hope, behold her not far off,
Such as I saw her in my dream, adorn’d
With what all Earth or Heaven could bestow
To make her amiable.”
Paradise Lost, Book VIII.
[33] Charles Wells, a schoolmate of Tom Keats; afterwards author of Stories after Nature and Joseph and his Brethren. For Keats’s subsequent cause of quarrel with him see below, Letter XCII.
[34] An admirable phrase!—if only penetralium were Latin.
[35] Laon and Cythna, presently changed to The Revolt of Islam.
[36] The family of Charles Wells lived at this address.
[37] Both in fact appeared in the number for Sunday, January 4: see postscript below.
[38] The Hampstead doctor who attended the Keats brothers.