| [3] | The Poems of John G. C. Brainard. A New and Authentic Collection, with an original Memoir of his Life. Hartford: Edward Hopkins. |
| [4] | The Humanitarians held that God was to be understood as having really a human form.—See Clarke’s Sermons, vol. 1, page 26, fol. edit. “The drift of Milton’s argument leads him to employ language which would appear, at first sight, to verge upon their doctrine: but it will be seen immediately that he guards himself against the charge of having adopted one of the most ignorant errors of the dark ages of the church.”—Dr. Sumner’s Notes on Milton’s “Christian Doctrine.” The opinion could never have been very general. Andeus, a Syrian of Messopotamia, who lived in the fourth century, was condemned for the doctrine, as heretical. His few disciples were called Anthropmorphites. See Du Pin. |
| [5] | It is remarkable that Drake, of whose “Culprit Fay,” we have just spoken is, perhaps, the sole poet who has employed, in the description of Niagara, imagery which does not produce a pathetic impression. In one of his minor poems he has these magnificent lines— How sweet ’twould be, when all the air In moonlight swims, along the river To couch upon the grass and hear Niagara’s everlasting voice Far in the deep blue West away; That dreamy and poetic noise We mark not in the glare of day— Oh, how unlike its torrent-cry When o’er the brink the tide is driven As if the vast and sheeted sky In thunder fell from Heaven! |
A DREAM OF THE DEAD.
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BY G. HILL, AUTHOR OF “TITANIA’S BANQUET.”
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Who, when my thoughts at midnight deep,