Thomson, The Seasons, Winter, 646–8.
‘Vex not his ghost: O, let him pass! he hates him
That would upon the rack of this tough world
Stretch him out longer.’
King Lear, Act V. Scene 3.
ESSAY XXIX. ON THE DISADVANTAGES OF INTELLECTUAL SUPERIORITY
[280]. Petrarch complains, etc. In the sonnet lamenting the death of Laura, beginning ‘Gli occhi di ch’ io parlai si caldamente.’ ‘To be honest,’ etc. Hamlet, Act II. Scene 2. ‘How now,’ etc. Henry VI. Part II., Act IV. Scene 2. ‘Stand all astonied,’ etc. The Faerie Queene, Book vii. Canto VI. Stanza 28. [281]. C—. Coleridge. [283]. Otium cum dignitate. Cicero, Pro Publio Sextio, XLV. ‘I am nothing,’ etc. Othello, Act II. Scene 1. [284]. In the —. The Quarterly Review. ‘This is the unkindest,’ etc. ‘This was the most unkindest cut of all!’ Julius Cæsar, Act III. Scene 2. Prince Maurice’s Parrot, etc. These two papers were published in Political Essays, vol. III. pp. 101 and 305. [285]. A motto from Butler.
‘Yet he that is but able to express
No sense at all in several languages,
Will pass for learneder than he that’s known, etc.