ESSAY XXIV. ON FAMILIAR STYLE
A few variations of the text from the MS. are given in Mr. W. C. Hazlitt’s edition of Table Talk.
[245]. His papers under the signature of Elia. In The London Magazine. The first, ‘Recollections of the South Sea House,’ appeared in August 1820. Mrs. Battle’s Opinions on Whist. The London Magazine, Feb. 1821. ‘A well of native English undefiled.’
‘Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled,
On Fame’s eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.’
Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book IV. Canto ii. Stanza 32.
‘Nec sermones ego mallem
Repentes per humum quam res componere gestas.’
Horace, Epistles, II. i. 250–1.
‘My affections