Far lovelier, and his heart could not sustain
The beauty, still more beauteous.’
Wordsworth, Lines left upon a Seat in a Yew-tree, 35–37.
ON THE IMITATION OF NATURE
[221]. ‘Blinking Sam.’ See Mrs. Piozzi’s Anecdotes, etc. (Johnsonian Miscellanies, ed. G. B. Hill, I. 313).
ON THE IDEAL
[223]. ‘Might ascend,’ etc. Henry V. Prologue. [224]. ‘Obscurity her curtain,’ etc. From a poem To the Honourable and Reverend F. C. in Dodsley’s Collection of Poems, vol. VI. (1758), p. 138. The poem (anonymously published) was written by Sneyd Davies (1709–1769), and was addressed to Frederick Cornwallis, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury. See The Gentleman’s Magazine, vol. I. p. 174, and Nichols’s Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century, vol. I. [226]. ‘Whose end,’ etc. Hamlet, Act III. Sc. 2. [228]. We have heard it observed, etc. By Coleridge, probably. See vol. IV. p. 217.
CHARLEMAGNE: OU L’ÉGLISE DÉLIVRÉE
[230]. The brother of Buonaparte. Lucien Buonaparte (1775–1840), Prince of Canino. The present review of his Charlemagne, etc. is signed ‘W. H.’ [231]. Henriade. Voltaire’s epic (1723).