H. P.
Lincoln's Inn.
"One while I think," &c. (Vol. ix., p. 76.).—These lines will be found in The Synagogue, p. 41., by Christopher Hervie.
M. Zachary.
"Spires 'whose silent finger points to heaven'" (Vol. ix., pp. 9. 85.).—F. R. M., M.A., seems not to have observed that Wordsworth marks this line as a quotation; and in the note upon it (Excursion, 373.) gives the poetical passage in The Friend, whence he took it, thus acknowledging Coleridge to be the author. The passage is not to be found in the modern edition of The Friend, by the reference in Wordsworth's note to "The Friend, No. 14. p. 223." I presume that The Friend was originally published in numbers, and that it is to that publication Wordsworth refers. This is not simply the case, as F. R. M., M.A., suggests, of two authors using the same idea, but of one also honestly acknowledging his debt to the other. The idea is of much older date than the prose of Coleridge, or the verse of Wordsworth. Milton, in his Epitaph on Shakspeare, has:
"Under a star y-pointing pyramid."
Prior has the following line:
"These pointed spires that wound the ambient sky."
Prior's Poems: Power, vol. iii. p. 94.,