ESSAY XVII. ON A LANDSCAPE OF NICOLAS POUSSIN
‘Table Talk, No. XI.,’ from The London Magazine, August 1821 (vol. IV. p. 176). ‘And blind Orion,’ etc. Keats, Endymion, II. 198. ‘A hunter of shadows,’ etc. Cf.
‘The huge Orion, of portentous size,
Swift through the gloom a giant-hunter flies.’
Pope, Homer’s Odyssey, XI. 703–4.
‘Full-orbed the moon, and, with more pleasing light,
Shadowy sets off the face of things.’
Paradise Lost, V. 42–3.
‘He who of those delights can judge, and spare
To interpose them oft, is not unwise.’