Like Nicholas Poussin’s picture. See Hazlitt’s Essay ‘On a Landscape by Nicolas Poussin’ in Table Talk, vol. VI. p. 168, et seq.
Sannazarius’s Piscatory Eclogues. Iacopo Sannazaro’s (1458–1530) Piscatory Eclogues, translated by Rooke, appeared in England in 1726. See The Round Table, vol. I. p. 56, ‘On John Buncle,’ for a similar passage on Walton.
[99]. A fair and happy milk-maid. The quotation of the ‘Character’ from Sir Thomas Overbury’s Wife was contributed to the notes to Walton’s Complete Angler by Sir Henry Ellis, editor of Bagster’s edition, 1815. He took it from the twelfth edition, 1627, of Sir Thomas Overbury’s book. The following passages may be added between ‘curfew’ and ‘her breath’ to make the note as quoted perfect:—‘In milking a cow, and straining the teats through her fingers, it seems that so sweet a milk press makes the milk the whiter or sweeter; for never came almond glue or aromatic ointment of her palm to taint it. The golden ears of corn fall and kiss her feet when she reaps them, as if they wished to be bound and led prisoners by the same hand that felled them.’
[100]. Two quarto volumes. John Horne Tooke’s Diversions of Purley was published in two volumes, 4to, in 1786–1805. See The Spirit of the Age, vol. IV. p. 231, on ‘The Late Mr. Horne Tooke.’
The heart of his mystery. Hamlet, III. 2.
Rousseau in his Confessions ... a little spot of green. Part I. Book III. See The Round Table, ‘On the Love of the Country,’ and notes thereto, vol. I. p. 17, et seq. The greater part of that letter was used for the purposes of this lecture.
[102]. Expatiates freely. Pope’s Essay on Man, Epis. I. 5.
Mrs. Radcliffe’s romances. Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823), author of The Romance of the Forest (1791), The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794), and other popular stories of sombre mystery and gloom.
[103]. My heart leaps up. Wordsworth.
[‘So be it when I shall grow old,