English literature -- History and criticism; Religious poetry, English -- History and criticism
[148] He continues his poetic synonyms for the night.
[149] "Behold I stand at the door and knock."
[150] A monosyllable.
[151] Often used for _chambers_.
[152] "The creation looks for the light, thy shadow?" Or, "The light
looks for thy shadow, the sun"?
[153] _Perforce_: of necessity.
[154] He does not mean his fellows, but his bodily nature.
[155] _Savourest?_
[156] The first I ever saw of its hymns was on a broad-sheet of Christmas
Carols, with coloured pictures, printed in Seven Dials.
[157] They passed through twenty editions, not to mention one lately
published (_by Daniel Sedgwick, of 81, Sun-street, Bishopsgate, a man
who, concerning hymns and their writers, knows more than any other man I
have met_), from which, carefully edited, I have gathered all my
_information_, although I had known the book itself for many years.
[158] The animal _spirits_ of the old physiologists.
[159] In the following five lines I have adopted the reading of the first
edition, which, although a little florid, I prefer to the scanty two
lines of the later.
[160] False in feeling, nor like God at all, although a ready pagan
representation of him. There is much of the pagan left in many
Christians--poets too.
[161] _Insisting--persistent_.
[162] Great cloudy ridges, one rising above the other, like a grand stair
up to the heavens. _See Wordsworth's note_.
[163] The mountain.
[164] These two lines are just the symbol for the life of their author.
[165] From the rose-light on the snow of its peak.
[166] They all flow from under the glaciers, fed by their constant
melting.
[167] Turning for contrast to the glaciers, which he apostrophizes in the
next line.
[168] Antecedent, _peaks_.
[Transcriber's Note: In this electronic edition, the footnotes have been
numbered and relocated to the end of the work. In chapter 14, the word
"Iris", which appears in our print copy, seems to be a misprint for
"Isis" and was corrected as such.]
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