[68]. Lords who love their ladies like. Cf. Home’s Douglas, Act I. Sc. 1: ‘As women wish to be who love their lords.’
PICTURES AT OXFORD AND BLENHEIM
From the London Magazine, November 1823
The article ends as follows:—‘We now take leave of British Galleries of Art. There are one or two others that we had intended to visit; but they are at a great distance from us and from each other; and we are not quite sure that they would repay our inquiries. Besides, to say the truth, we have already pretty well exhausted our stock of criticism, both general and particular. The same names were continually occurring, and we began sometimes to be apprehensive that the same observations might be repeated over again. One thing we can say, that the going through our regular task has not lessened our respect for the great names here alluded to; and, if we shall have inspired, in the progress of it, any additional degree of curiosity respecting the art, or any greater love of it in our readers, we shall think our labour and our anxiety to do justice to the subject most amply rewarded.’
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[69]. With glistering spires. Paradise Lost, III. 550.
Hold high converse. Thomson, The Seasons: Winter, 431.
No mean city. Acts xxi. 39.
All eyes shall see me. Cf. Isaiah xlv. 22–23 and Romans xiv. 11.
[70]. Clappeth his wings, and straightway he is gone. Cf. Pope, Eloisa to Abelard, 74: