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.