Mortal consequences. Macbeth, V. 3.
[114]. The dull product of a scoffer’s pen. Wordsworth’s Excursion, Book II.
Nothing can touch him further. Macbeth, III. 2.
Voltaire’s Traveller. See Histoire des Voyages de Scarmentado.
Be wise to-day. Night Thoughts, I. 390–433.
[115]. Zanga is a vulgar caricature of it. Cf. Characters of Shakespear’s Plays, ‘Othello,’ vol. I. p. 209. Edward Young’s (1683–1765) Revenge was first acted in 1721.
[116]. We poets in our youth. Wordsworth, Resolution and Independence, 8.
Read the account of Collins. See Johnson’s life of him in his English Poets, where the eighth verse of the ‘Ode to Evening’ is as follows:—
‘Then let me rove some wild and heathy scene,
Or find some ruin ‘midst its dreary dells,