‘and his grave rebuke
Severe in youthful beauty, added grace
Invincible.’
Paradise Lost, IV, 844–6.
ESSAY XIX. ON GOING A JOURNEY
Published in The New Monthly Magazine (1822, vol. IV. p. 73) under the heading ‘Table Talk, No. 1.’ Mr. W. C. Hazlitt in his edition of Table Talk gives some variations between the printed text of this essay and the original MS.
[181]. ‘The fields his study,’ etc. Bloomfield, The Farmer’s Boy, Spring, 31. ‘A friend in my retreat,’ etc. Cowper, Retirement, 741–2. ‘May plume her feathers,’ etc. Comus, 378–80. [182]. ‘Sunken wrack,’ etc. ‘With sunken wreck and sumless treasuries,’ Henry V., Act I. Scene 2. ‘Leave, oh, leave me,’ etc. See ante, note to p. 71. ‘The very stuff of conscience.’ Othello, Act I. Scene 2. ‘Out upon such half-faced fellowship.’ Henry IV., Part I. Act I. Scene 3. [183]. ‘Give it an understanding,’ etc. Hamlet, Act I. Scene 2. My old friend C—. Coleridge. Cf. the essay on ‘My First Acquaintance with Poets.’ ‘He talked far above singing.’ ‘I did hear you talk far above singing.’ Beaumont and Fletcher, Philaster, Act V. Scene 5. ‘That fine madness,’ etc.
‘For that fine madness still he did retain,
Which rightly should possess a Poet’s brain.’
Drayton, Censure of Poets.