"To-night ungather'd let us leave
This laurel, let this holly stand."
[75]
"Use and Wont,
Old sisters of a day gone by.
They too will die."--Poem xxix.
[76] "_Ligna super foco large reponens._" Thackeray sang,
"Care, like a dun,
Lurks at the gate,
Let the dog wait!
Happy we'll be.
Drink every one.
Pile up the coals,
Fill the red bowls,
Round the old tree."
[77] "All stone I felt within," Dante's Inferno, xxxiii. 47. Wright's
translation. "My heart is turned to stone," Othello, act iv., s. 1. Eloisa
says, "I have not quite forgot myself to stone."
[78] Lucan has, "_ulularunt tristia Galli_."
[79] "Nearest" in later editions.
[80] Sir Thomas Browne, in his "Christian Morals," says, "the true heroick
English gentleman hath no peer."
[81] In _Measure for Measure_, act iii., s. 1, we read
"To be imprison'd in the viewless winds."
"Sightless" and "viewless" are alike used for "invisible."
"O, therefore, from thy sightless range."
P. xciii., 3.
[82] "_Caelum mutant, qui trans mare currunt._" Hor. Ep. xi., 27.
[83] "The work begun by Nature is finished by the Supernatural--as we are
wont to call the higher natural. And as the veil is lifted by
Christianity, it strikes men dumb with wonder. For the goal of Evolution
is Jesus Christ. The Christian life is the only life that will ever be
completed. Apart from Christ, the life of man is a broken pillar, the race
of men an unfinished pyramid."--Drummond's _Natural Law in the Spiritual
World_, p. 314.
[84] See Poem xcvi.
[85] What is the difference of meaning in the two words "adieu" and
"farewell"? Byron says in _Lara_,
"Farewell to life, but not adieu to thee."
[86] "With the heart man believeth unto righteousness." Romans x., 10.
[87]
"But as I rav'd, and grew more fierce and wild
At every word,
Methought I heard one calling, _Child_,
And I reply'd, _My Lord_."
_The Collar_, G. Herbert.
[88] Many years ago, I had a conversation with the Poet in his attic study
at Farringford, that lasted till nearly daybreak. He discoursed on many
subjects, and when we touched on religion, he said, _I am not very fond of
creeds: it is enough for me that I know God Himself came down from heaven
in the form of man_. I cannot resist testifying to the singular frankness
and impressiveness of his conversation, especially when talking to my
wife, who approached much nearer to his intellectual level than I did, and
whom he has now joined "on the mystic deeps."--A. G.
[89] Shakespeare says,
"Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead,
Excessive grief the enemy to the living."
_All's well that ends well_, act i., s. 1.
[90] The late Sub-Dean Garden said, that E. L. Lushington was the most
learned man in England, after Bishop Thirlwall. Professor Lushington died
13th July, 1893.
Transcriber's Notes:
Passages in italics are indicated by _italics_.
The original text includes Greek characters. For this text version these
letters have been replaced with transliterations.