[14] What follows, I think, (for book I have none of any kind where this paper is proceeding,) viz. _et sera sub nocte rudentum_, is probably a mistake of Virgil's; the lions did not roar because night was approaching, but because night brought with it their principal meal, and consequently the impatience of hunger. [15] "_Kilcrops._"--See, amongst Southey's early poems, one upon this superstition. Southey argues _contra_; but for my part, I should have been more disposed to hold a brief on the other side. [16] In this place I derive my feeling partly from a lovely sketch of the appearance, in verse, by Mr Wordsworth; partly from my own experience of the case; and, not having the poems here, I know not how to proportion my acknowledgments. [17] "And so, then," the Cynic objects, "you rank your own mind (and you tell us so frankly) amongst the primary formations?" As I love to annoy him, it would give me pleasure to reply--"Perhaps I do." But as I never answer more questions than are necessary, I confine myself to saying, that this is not a necessary construction of the words. Some minds stand nearer to the type of the original nature in man, are truer than others to the great magnet in our dark planet. Minds that are impassioned on a more colossal scale than ordinary, deeper in their vibrations, and more extensive in the scale of their vibrations--whether, in other parts of their intellectual system, they had or had not a corresponding compass--will tremble to greater depths from a fearful convulsion, and will come round by a longer curve of undulations. [18] _i. e._ (As on account of English readers is added,) the recognition of his true identity, which in one moment, and by a horrid flash of revelation, connects him with acts incestuous, murderous, parricidal, in the past, and with a mysterious fatality of woe lurking in the future. [19] Euripides. 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. The following misprints have been corrected: "inexorbably" corrected to "inexorably" (page 466) "daugher" corrected to "daughter" (page 489) "expresssion" corrected to "expression" (page 492) Other than the corrections listed above, printer's inconsistencies in spelling and hyphenation usage have been retained.