[37] Monkhouse, _Life of Leigh Hunt_, p. 79. [38] Patmore, _My Friends and Acquaintance_, III, p. 101. [39] The _Edinburgh Review_ of May, 1823, in an article entitled _The Periodical Press_ ranked Hunt next to Cobbett in talent and _The Examiner_ as the ablest and most respectable of weekly publications, when allowance had been made for the occasional twaddle and flippancy, the mawkishness about firesides and Bonaparte, and the sickly sonnet-writing. [40] Mazzini wrote Hunt: "Your name is known to many of my Countrymen; it would no doubt impart an additional value to the thoughts embodied in the League. [International League.] It is the name not only of a patriot, but of a high literary man and a poet. It would show at once that _natural_ questions are questions not of merely _political_ tendencies, but of feeling, eternal trust, and Godlike poetry. It would show that poets understand their active mission down here, and that they are also prophets and apostles of things to come. I was told only to-day that you had been asked to be a member of the League's Council, and feel a want to express the joy I too would feel at your assent." (_Cornhill Magazine_, LXV, p. 480 ff.) [41] _The Reflector_, I, p. 5. [42] Hunt accepted the _Monthly Repository_ in 1837 as a gift from W. J. Fox in order to free it from Unitarian influence. Carlyle, Landor, Browning and Miss Martineau were contributors. [43] (1) "Besides, it is my firm belief--as firm as the absence of positive, tangible proof can let it be (and if we had that, we should all kill ourselves, like Plato's scholars, and go and enjoy heaven at once), that whatsoever of just and affectionate the mind of man is made by nature to desire, is made by her to be realized, and that this is the special good, beauty and glory of that illimitable thing called space--in her there is room for everything." _Correspondence_, II, p. 57. (2) And Faith, some day, will all in love be shown. ("Abraham and the Fire-Worshipper," _Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt_, 1857, p. 135.) [44] _A New Spirit of the Age_, II, p. 183. [45] Hunt wrote two religious books, _Christianism_ and _Religion of the Heart_. The second, which is an expansion of the first, contains a ritual of daily and weekly service. For the most part it contains reflections on duty and service. [46] _Correspondence_, I, p. 130. [47] Bryan Waller Proctor (Barry Cornwall), _An Autobiographical Fragment and Biographical Notes_, p. 197. [48] _Autobiography_, I, p. 119-120. [49] _A Morning Walk and View_; _Sonnet on the Sickness of Eliza_. [50] It had appeared previously in _The Reflector_, No. 4, article 10. In the separate edition it was expanded and 126 pages of notes were added. [51] _Poetical Works_, 1832, preface, p. 48. [52] Byron, _Letters and Journals_, III, p. 28, February 9, 1814.