The painful warrior. Shakespeare, Sonnet XXV.
[159]. What though the radiance. Wordsworth, Ode, Intimations of Immortality [taken from my sight.... Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower.]
The burden and the mystery. Wordsworth’s Tintern Abbey.
The worst ... returns to good. Cf. ‘the worst returns to laughter,’ King Lear, Act IV. Sc. 1.
And bring with thee [and add to these] retired Leisure. Il Penseroso, 49.
Nature to advantage drest. Pope, Essay on Criticism, Part II. 97.
Paradise of dainty devices. The name given to a collection of poems published 1576 and various times later.
The Frenchman’s darling. Cowper, The Task, IV. 765.
[161]. With glistering spires. Paradise Lost, III. 550.
Low farms and [poor] pelting villages. King Lear, Act II. Sc. 3.