[8] _Memoirs and Correspondence of C. Palmore_, by B. Champneys, 1901, vol. ii. pp. 84, 85. [9] _Selections from the German Mystics_, ed. Inge (Methuen, 1904), p. 4. [10] See his article on Rossetti in the _Nineteenth Century_ for March 1883. [11] _House of Life_, Sonnet xvii. [12] _House of Life_, Sonnets i., xxvii., lxxvii. [13] See _Religio Poetæ_, p. 1. [14] _Memoirs_, ed. Champneys, i. 146. [15] _The Angel in the House._ Bk. ii. prelude ii. [16] _The Angel in the House_, canto viii. prelude iv. [17] See pp. 113, 114 below. [18] _The Child's Purchase_ and _The Toys_, poems, I vol., 1906, pp. 287, 354. [19] _Seligio Poetæ_, 1893, p. 163. [20] _Religio Poetæ_, 1893, p. 44. [21] The "Ring" of Eternity is a familiar mystical symbol which Vaughan doubtless knew in other writers; for instance as used by Suso or Ruysbroeck. See _Mysticism_, by E. Underhill, p. 489 and note. [22] See the illuminating description of this essentially mystic feeling given by J. Stewart in _The Myths of Pinto_, Introduction, pp. 39 _et seq._ [23] _The Story of my Heart_, pp. 87, 88. [24] _Ibid._, p. 76. [25] _The Story of my Heart_, p. 199. [26] _Ibid._, p. 71. [27] _Ibid._, p. 74. [28] See _Compendium of Philosophy_, a mediæval digest of the Abhidhamma, translated by S. Z. Aung and Mrs Rhys Davids, 1910, 152 f. [29] We cannot agree with Prof Grierson, who, in his fine recent edition of the poet (_Donne's Poems_, Oxford, 1912, vol ii., pp. cxxxv.-vi.), holds that the style and tone of this song point to Donne not being the author. For these very qualities it would seem indubitably to be his. [30] Surely also by Donne, but see Grierson, vol. ii., pp. cxxxviii-ix. [31] _Centuries of Meditations_, ed. Dobell, 1908, pp. 20, 21. [32] _Centuries of Meditations_, pp. 156-58. [33] _Life of Tennyson_, by his son, 1905, p. 268; see also pp 818, 880. [34] This is the idea, essentially mystical, and originating with Boehme, which is worked out in the suggestive little book, _The Mystery of Pain_, by James Hinton. [35] _An Appeal, Work's_, vol. vi. pp. 27, 28. [36] _The Spirit of Prayer_, _Works_, vol. vii. pp. 23, 24. [37] _Cf._ St Augustine, "To will God entirely is to have Him" (_City of God_, Book xi. chap, iv.), or Ruysbroek's answer to the priests from Paris who came to consult him on the state of their souls: "You are as you desire to be." [38] See _The Spirit of Prayer_, _Works_, vol. vii. pp. 150, 151. [39] _An Appeal, Works_, vol. vi. p. 169. [40] _Ibid._, pp. 19, 20. [41] _Ibid._, pp. 69, 80. [42] _The Spirit of Prayer_, _Works_, vol. vii. pp. 23, 27. [43] _The Way to Divine Knowledge, Works_, vol. vii. p. 60. [44] _The Spirit of Prayer_, _Works_, vol. vii. p. 68. See also _ibid._, pp. 91, 92 [45] _An Appeal, Works_, vol. vi. pp. 132, 133. [47] _An Appeal, Works_, vol. vi. p. 115. [48] _The Destiny of Nations_, II. 16-18. [49] _Frost at Midnight_, 11. 60-62. [50] _Sartor Resartus_, Book i. chap. xi.