[[36]] I have put this sentence in a parenthesis, because it is inconsistent with the rest of the statement, and with the general teaching of the paper; since that which "attends only to the invariable" cannot certainly adopt "every ornament that will warm the imagination." [Ruskin.]
[[37]] Stanza 6 of Byron's Prisoner of Chillon, quoted with a slight inaccuracy.
[[38]] "Messrs. Mallet and Pictet, being on the lake, in front of the Castle of Chillon, on August 6, 1774, sunk a thermometer to the depth of 312 feet." ... —SAUSSURE, Voyages dans les Alpes, chap. ii, § 33. It appears from the next paragraph, that the thermometer was at the bottom of the lake. [Ruskin, altered.]
[[39]] Ruskin later wrote: "It leaves out rhythm, which I now consider a defect in said definition; otherwise good."
[[40]] Take, for instance, the beautiful stanza in the Affliction of Margaret:
I look for ghosts, but none will force
Their way to me. 'T is falsely said
That ever there was intercourse
Between the living and the dead;
For, surely, then, I should have sight