8. THE THING THAT--IS. The poet's function is thus described by
Shakespeare:
As imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.
--_Midsummer Night's Dream_, V., 1.
17. HALF-ENGLISH NEILGHERRY AIR. The Neilgherry Hills are in Madras.
The climate resembles somewhat that of England.