who have eyes. Psalms, cxv, 5; cxxxv, 16, etc.
It will never do. Hazlitt was fond of mimicking this phrase with which Jeffrey so unfortunately opened his well-known review of Wordsworth’s “Excursion.”
I lisp’d in numbers. “Epistle to Arbuthnot,” 128.
Et quum conabar scribere. Cf. Ovid’s “Tristia,” IV, x, 26: “Et, quod tentabam dicere, versus erat.”
PERIODICAL ESSAYISTS
The fifth lecture on the “Comic Writers.”
[P. 133.] the proper study. Pope’s “Essay on Man,” II, 2.
comes home. Bacon’s dedication of the Essays.
Quicquid agunt homines. “Whatever things men do form the mixed substance of our book.” Juvenal’s “Satires,” I, 85. With occasional exceptions, this appears as the motto of the first 78 number of the Tatler.
holds the mirror. “Hamlet,” iii, 2, 24.