What trouble had I not, and at last almost fruitless, to teach De Camp the hurried under-voice with which Isidore should utter these two lines, as anticipating Ordonio's scorn, and yet unable to suppress his own superstition—and yet De Camp, spite of voice, person, and inappropriate protrusion of the chest, understood and realised his part better than all the rest—to the man of sense, I mean. MS. H.
[861:1] 72-3. In the Biographia Literaria, 1817, ii. 73 Coleridge puts these lines into another shape:—
The simplest and the most familiar things
Gain a strange power of spreading awe around them.
See note by J. D. Campbell, P. W., 1893, p. 651.
LINENOTES:
After [12] [He goes . . . moonlight: returns after a minute's elapse, in an extasy of fear. Editions 1, 2, 3, 1829.
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pit] pit Editions 1, 2, 3, 1829.
[[18]]
Ordonio (goes . . . returns, and with great scorn). Editions 1, 2, 3, 1829.