[3] In a poem published in an American magazine on February 15th, 1882,
Wilde wrote
“And in the throbbing engine room
Leap the long rods of polished steel.”
[4] _Poems by Oscar Wilde. Also his Lecture on the English Renaissance._
The Seaside Library, Vol. lviii. No. 1183, January 19th, 1882. 4to. Pp.
32. New York: George Munro, Publisher.
A copy of this edition was sold by auction in New York last year for
eight dollars.
[5] See _An Essay concerning Human Understanding_, IV. xii. 10.
A still more striking instance of the use of this expression is to be
found in the same writer’s _Thoughts concerning Education_, s. 28, where
he says:--“Once in four and twenty hours, I think, is enough; and
nobody, _I guess_, will think it too much.”