Part I

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_Masterless passion._ _Merchant of Venice_, IV. 1.

[‘for affection, Mistress of passion, sways it to the mood.’]

_Satisfaction to the thought._ Cf. _Othello_, III. 3.

8. _Now night descending._ _Dunciad_, I. 89, 90.

8. _Throw him on the steep._ _Ode to Fear._

[‘ridgy steep Of some loose hanging rock to sleep.’]

_Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend._ _King Lear_, I. 4. [‘More hideous, when thou show’st thee in a child.’]

_Both at the first and now._ _Hamlet_, III. 2.

9. _Doctor Chalmers’s Discoveries._ Thomas Chalmers, D.D. (1780–1847), who sought in his _A Series of Discourses on the Christian Revelation, viewed in connection with Modern Astronomy_ (1817), to reconcile science with current conceptions of Christianity. See _The Spirit of the Age_, vol. III. p. 228 and note.

10. _Bandit fierce._ _Comus_, l. 426.

_Our fell of hair._ _Macbeth_, V. 5.

_Macbeth ... for the sake of the music._ Probably Purcell’s. It was written for D’Avenant’s version and produced in 1672 (Genest). Cf. _The Round Table_, vol. I. p. 138 and note.

_Between the acting._ _Julius Caesar_, II. 1. [‘The Genius and the mortal instruments.’]

11. _Thoughts that voluntary move._ _Paradise Lost_, III. 37, 38.

_The words of Mercury._ _Love’s Labour’s Lost_, V. 11. [‘The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo.’]

_So from the ground._ _Faery Queene_, I. vi. [‘With doubled Eccho.’]

12. _The secret soul of harmony._ _L’Allegro_, l. 144. [‘The hidden soul of harmony.’]

_The golden cadences of poetry._ _Love’s Labour’s Lost_, IV. 2.

_Sailing with supreme dominion._ Gray’s _Progress of Poesy_, III. 3.

13. _Sounding always._ Prologue to the _Canterbury Tales_, l. 275.

_Addison’s Campaign._ 1705. Addison wrote it on Marlborough’s victory of Blenheim. For its description as a ‘Gazette in Rhyme,’ see Dr. Joseph Warton’s (1722–1800) _An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope_ (1756–82).

14. _Married to immortal verse._ _L’Allegro_, l. 137.

_Dipped in dews of Castalie._ Cf. T. Heywood’s,

‘And Jonson, though his learned pen Was dipt in Castaly, is still but Ben.’

_The most beautiful of all the Greek tragedies._ Sophocles’s _Philoctetes_.

_As I walked about._ Defoe’s _Robinson Crusoe_,