of such sensitive organization of body that the plant is not more alive to touch than he.... He is a composition, as we all are, of defects and delightful qualities, indolently averse to worldly exertion, because it harasses the musings of his fancy, existing only by the common duties of life, yet ignorant of them, and often suffering from their neglect." (Haydon, _Life, Letters and Table Talk_, ed. R. H. Stoddard, pp. 155-156.) Haydon said that the rupture came about because Hunt insisted upon speaking of our Lord and his Apostles in a condescending manner, and that he rebelled against Hunt's "audacious romancing over the Biblical conceptions of the Almighty." (Haydon, _Life, Letters and Table Talk_, p. 65.) This view, in the light of Haydon's general unreliability, may be mere romancing; for Keats, writing on January 13, 1818, gave the following explanation of the quarrel: "Mrs. H. (Hunt) was in the habit of borrowing silver from Haydon--the last time she did so, Haydon asked her to return it at a certain time--she did not--Haydon sent for it--Hunt went to expostulate on the indelicacy, etc.--they got to words and parted for ever." (Keats, _Works_, IV, p. 58). [114] _Works_, IV, p. 20. [115] Milnes, _Life, Letters and Literary Remains of John Keats_, II, p. 44. [116] _Works_, IV, p. 114. [117] _Ibid._, V, p. 142. [118] _Life, Letters and Table Talk_, p. 208. [119] _Works_, IV, p. 31. [120] _Ibid._, IV, p. 60. [121] _Ibid._, IV, pp. 37-38. [122] _Ibid._, IV, p. 38, Keats gives his argument in favor of a long poem. [123] _Ibid._, IV, p. 38. [124] _Ibid._, IV, p. 49. [125] _Ibid._, IV, p. 193. [126] _Ibid._, IV, pp. 195-196. [127] _Ibid._, IV, p. 12. [128] _Ibid._, IV, p. 90. [129] _Ibid._, I, p. 34. [130] _Ibid._, V, p. 198. [131] Haydon attempted also to make trouble between Wordsworth and Hunt, by telling the former that Hunt's admiration for him was only a "weather cock estimation" and by insinuations concerning his sincerity in friendships. (Haydon, _Life, Letters and Table Talk_, p. 197.) [132] J. Ashcroft Noble, _The Sonnet in England, and Other Essays_, p. 108. [133] _Autobiography_, II, p. 42. [134] _Autobiography_, II, p. 44. [135] _Works_, V, p. 203. [136] Keats wrote Haydon, "There are three things to rejoice at in this age The Excursion, Your Pictures, and Hazlitt's depth of taste." (_Works_, IV, p. 56.) [137] _Works_, II, p. 187. [138] _Ibid._, V, p. 116. [139] _Ibid._, V, p. 180. [140] _Ibid._, V, p. 175. [141] _Ibid._, V, p. 174. [142] That he needed better attention than he could receive in lodgings is seen from an account of Keats's condition given in _Maria Gisborne's Journal_ (_Ibid._, V, p. 182), which says that when she drank tea there in July, Keats was under sentence of death from Dr. Lamb: "he never spoke and looks emaciated." [143] _Works_, V, p. 183-184. The quotation follows Keats's punctuation. [144] _Ibid._, V, p. 185. [145] _Cornhill Magazine_, 1892. [146] _Works_, V, p. 194.