[121] [This letter is followed in Blackwood by the two letters to a Junior Soph, at Cambridge, republished by T. Ashe in Miscellanies, Authentic and Literary, Bohn Library, pp. 244–260. As these are rather Essays than Letters they are not reproduced in this work.]
[122] Thus in original letter, (Allsop).
[123] Mercury, the god of lucre and selfish ends, patron god of thieves, tradesmen, stock-jobbers, diplomatists, pimps, harlots and go-betweens; the soothing, pacifying god.
[124] [Letter CCXXX follows 198.]
[125] [Letter to a Young Lady on the Choice of a Husband reprinted in Miscellanies, Aesthetic and Literary, p. 229.]
[126] Great as was the shock my friend sustained from the unkind conduct of the gentlemen here alluded to, it is to me a great solace to be assured that he forgave them fully and entirely. [Allsop.]
[127] [Perhaps Wordsworth.]
To me hath Heaven with bounteous hand assigned
Energic Reason and a shaping mind,