Milton, Sonnet (No. XX.) To Mr. Lawrence.

‘Thus pleasure is spread through the earth

In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.’

Wordsworth, Stray Pleasures.

ESSAY XVIII. ON MILTON’S SONNETS

Published in The New Monthly Magazine (1822), vol. IV. p. 238, under the title of ‘Table Talk, No. III.’

Some fee-grief,’ etc.

‘Or is it a fee-grief

Due to some single breast?’

Macbeth, Act IV. Scene 3.