[117] My Literary Passions, 120.
[118] Edinburgh Review, January, 1837.
[119] Thackeray’s Works, ed. Trent and Henneman, XXV, 350-51.
[120] Robertson: Essays Toward a Critical Method, 81.
[121] Saintsbury’s History of Criticism and John Davidson’s Sentences and Paragraphs, 113.
[122] In some Roman Catholic countries, pictures in part supplied the place of the translations of the Bible: and this dumb art arose in the silence of the written oracles.
[123] See A Voyage to the Straits of Magellan, 1594.
[124] Taken from Tasso.
[125] This word is an instance of those unwarrantable freedoms which Spenser sometimes took with language.