Invita Minervâ. See ante, note to p. 8.
The labour we delight in. Macbeth, II. 1.
Denner. Balthasar Denner, a German portrait painter (1685–1749).
To him a kingdom was. Cf. ‘My mind to me a kingdom is,’ by Sir Edward Dyer.
A lucid mirror. Cowper, The Task, I. 701–2.
Begun in gladness. Wordsworth’s Resolution and Independence, St. 8.
[57]. The Children in the Fiery Furnace. Daniel, iii. 6.
Terræ filii. Cf. Persius, Sat. VI. 59, ‘Terræ est jam filius.’
Highest [brightest] Heaven of invention. King Henry V. Prologue.
[58]. Nice customs curtesy. King Henry V. V. 2.