From The London Magazine, June 1823.
The previous article in the series ended with the words:—‘We shall break off here, and give some account of the Cartoons at Hampton Court in our next, as we do not like them to come in at the fag-end of an article.’
42. Fine by degrees. Prior, Henry and Emma, 432.
[44]. Calm contemplation and majestic pains.
Cf. ‘Calm pleasures there abide—majestic pains.’
Wordsworth’s Laodamia, 72.
and ‘Calm contemplation and poetic ease.’
Thomson’s Autumn, 1275.
[46]. The seasons’ difference. As You Like It, Act II. Sc. 1.
Through their looped and tattered ‘wretchedness. Cf. ‘Your loop’d and windowed raggedness.’ King Lear, Act III. Sc. 4.