The Task, V. 173–6.
ESSAY XXV. ON EFFEMINACY OF CHARACTER
[248]. ‘The gossamer,’ etc.
‘the gossamer
That idles in the wanton summer air.’
Romeo and Juliet, Act II. Scene 6.
ESSAY XXVI. WHY DISTANT OBJECTS PLEASE
‘Descry new lands,’ etc. Paradise Lost, I. 290–1. Ethereal mould, sky-tinctured. Phrases borrowed without acknowledgment from Milton (Paradise Lost, II. 139, and V. 285). ‘But thou, oh Hope,’ etc. Collins, The Passions, 29–32. [256]. I lived within sight, etc. At Wem, in Shropshire, within sight of the Welsh hills. Cf. a passage in the first paragraph of ‘My First Acquaintance with Poets.’ ‘Yarrow unvisited.’ Wordsworth’s three poems, Yarrow Unvisited, Yarrow Visited, and Yarrow Revisited, were published in 1807, 1814, and 1835 respectively. ‘Unmould their essence.’ Cf. ‘Unmoulding reason’s mintage.’ Comus, 529. ‘A mighty stream of tendency.’ Wordsworth, The Excursion, IX. 87. ‘A tide in the affairs of men.’ Julius Caesar, Act IV. Scene 3. ‘With sails and tackle torn.’ ‘Though shrouds and tackle torn.’ Paradise Lost, II. 1044. ‘Such tricks hath,’ etc. Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act V. Scene 1. [257]. ‘Hangs upon the beatings,’ etc. Wordsworth, Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey, 54. ‘Come thronging soft desires.’ ‘Come thronging soft and delicate desires.’ Much Ado About Nothing, Act I. Scene 1. ‘Bring back the hour,’ etc. Wordsworth, Intimations of Immortality. ‘That first garden of my innocence.’ ‘In that first garden of our simplenesse.’ Daniel, Hymen’s Triumph. [258]. ‘Like the sweet south.’ Twelfth Night, Act I. Scene 1. W—m. Wem.
ESSAY XXVII. ON CORPORATE BODIES
Many instances of variation between the MS. and the text of this essay are given by Mr. W. C. Hazlitt in his edition of Table Talk. ‘The MS. and the printed copy’ (he says, p. 380) ‘scarcely correspond in two consecutive words.’