[504:1] Sed ita a principio inchoatum esse mundum ut certis rebus certa signa præcurrerent (Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events).—Cicero: Divinatione, liber i. cap. 52.
Coming events cast their shadows before.—Campbell: Lochiel's Warning.
Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.—Shelley: A Defence of Poetry.
[504:2] "A phrase," says Coleridge, "which I have borrowed from a Greek monk, who applies it to a patriarch of Constantinople."
[504:3] See Burton, page [185].
[504:4] See Wordsworth, page [481].
[505:1] Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.—Shelley: Fragments of Adonais.
You know who critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.—Disraeli: Lothair, chap. xxxv.