Chapter XXXIV: Book III: 775–7

‘_The poet blind and bold._’ ‘When I beheld the Poet, blind, yet
bold.’ Andrew Marvell, _On Paradise Lost_, I.

‘_Such recantation_,’ _etc._ Wordsworth, _The Excursion_, Book
III. 778.

‘_No longer to Kings_,’ _etc._ Southey, _Vision of Judgment_, IX.

177. ‘_On evil days_,’ _etc._ _Paradise Lost_, VII. 26.

‘_Cyriac, this three years’ day_,’ _etc._ Sonnet No. XXII.

_Those to Cromwell, to Fairfax and to the younger Vane._ Nos. XV.,
XVI., and XVII.

_On the late Massacre in Piedmont._ No. XVIII.

179. _Those to Mr. Henry Lawes, etc._ Nos. XIII. and XX.

_On his deceased Wife._ No. XXIII.

180. _To suppose that Milton only shone_, _etc._ Dr. Johnson in his
famous _Life of Milton_ says: ‘Milton never learnt the art of
doing little things with grace,’ etc.; and to Hannah More he
said (Boswell, ed. G. B. Hill, IV. 305): ‘Milton, Madam, was a
genius that could cut a colossus from a rock; but could not
carve heads upon cherry-stones.’

_His Letters to Donatus._ Hazlitt perhaps refers to Milton’s
letters to Charles Diodati.

‘_Severe in youthful virtue unreproved._’

‘and his grave rebuke
Severe in youthful beauty, added grace
Invincible.’
_Paradise Lost_, IV, 844–6.

ESSAY XIX. ON GOING A JOURNEY

Published in _The New Monthly Magazine_ (1822, vol. IV. p. 73) under the heading ‘Table Talk, No. 1.’ Mr. W. C. Hazlitt in his edition of _Table Talk_ gives some variations between the printed text of this essay and the original MS.

181. ‘_The fields his study_,’ _etc._ Bloomfield, _The Farmer’s Boy_,
_Spring_, 31.

‘_A friend in my retreat_,’ _etc._ Cowper, _Retirement_, 741–2.

‘_May plume her feathers_,’ _etc._ _Comus_, 378–80.

182. ‘_Sunken wrack_,’ _etc._ ‘With sunken wreck and sumless
treasuries,’ _Henry V._, Act I. Scene 2.

‘_Leave, oh, leave me_,’ _etc._ See _ante_, note to p. 71.

‘_The very stuff of conscience._’ _Othello_, Act I. Scene 2.

‘_Out upon such half-faced fellowship._’ _Henry IV._, Part I. Act
I. Scene 3.

183. ‘_Give it an understanding_,’ _etc._ _Hamlet_, Act I. Scene 2.

_My old friend C—._ Coleridge. Cf. the essay on ‘My First
Acquaintance with Poets.’

‘_He talked far above singing._’ ‘I did hear you talk far above
singing.’ Beaumont and Fletcher, _Philaster_, Act V. Scene 5.

‘_That fine madness_,’ _etc._

‘For that fine madness still he did retain,
Which rightly should possess a Poet’s brain.’
Drayton, _Censure of Poets_.

‘_Here be woods as green_,’ _etc._ John Fletcher’s _The Faithful
Shepherdess_, Act I. Scene 3.

184. L—. Lamb.

184. ‘_Take one’s ease at one’s inn._’ ‘Shall I not take mine ease in
mine inn?’ _Henry IV._, Part I. Act III. Scene 3.

‘_The cups that cheer_,’ _etc._ Cowper, _The Task_, IV. 39–40.

185. _Procul_, _etc._ _Aeneid_, VI. 258.

‘_Unhoused free condition_,’ _etc._ _Othello_, Act I. Scene 2.

‘_Lord of one’s-self_,’ _etc._ ‘Lord of yourself, uncumber’d with
a wife.’ Dryden, _Epistle to John Driden_, 18.

_Gribelin’s engravings_, _etc._ Simon Gribelin’s (1661–1733)
engravings of the cartoons were published in 1707.

186. _Paul and Virginia._ Bernardin de St. Pierre’s famous romance
(1788).

_At Bridgewater._ In the course of his visit to Coleridge who
lived at Nether Stowey. See ‘My First Acquaintance with Poets.’

_Madame D’Arblay’s Camilla._ Published in 1796.

_The letter I chose_, _etc._ _La Nouvelle Héloïse_, Part IV.