"From his childhood the shell was
familiar
to him,
etc.
etc.
Byron
Southey addresses his
declamation against impurity!
[These are the lines in _Gebir_ to which Byron alludes--
"But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue.
* * * * *
Shake one and it awakens; then apply
Its polisht lips to your attentive ear,
And it remembers its august abodes,
And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there. "
Compare, too, _The Excursion_, bk. iv. --
"I have seen
A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract
Of inland ground, applying to his ear
The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell,
To which, in silence hushed, his very soul
Listened intently," etc.
Landor, in his _Satire upon Satirists_, 1836, p. 29, commenting on
Wordsworth's alleged remark that he "would not give five shillings for
all the poetry that Southey had written" (see _Letters_, 1900, iv.
Appendix IX. pp. 483, 484), calls attention to this unacknowledged
borrowing, "It would have been honester," he says, "and more decorous if
the writer of the following verses had mentioned from what bar he drew
his wire. " According to H. C. Robinson (_Diary_, 1869, iii. 114),
Wordsworth acknowledged no obligation to Landor's _Gebir_ for the image
of the sea-shell.
"From his childhood the shell was familiar to him,
etc. The 'Satire' seemed to give Wordsworth little annoyance. "]
[395] {615}[In his Preface to Cantos I. , II. of _Childe Harold_
(_Poetical Works_, 1899, ii. 5), Byron relies on the authority of
"Ariosto Thomson and Beattie" for the inclusion of droll or satirical
"variations" in a serious poem. Nevertheless, Dallas prevailed on him to
omit certain "ludicrous stanzas. " It is to be regretted that no one
suggested the excision of sections xix. -xxi. from the second canto of
The Island. ]
[396] Hobbes, the father of Locke's and other philosophy, was an
inveterate smoker,--even to pipes beyond computation.
["Soon after dinner he [Hobbes] retired to his study, and had his
candle, with ten or twelve pipes of tobacco laid by him; then, shutting
his door, he fell to smoking, and thinking, and writing for several
hours. "--_Memoirs of the Family of Cavendish_, by White Kennet, D. D. ,
1708, pp. 14, 15.
declamation against impurity!
[These are the lines in _Gebir_ to which Byron alludes--
"But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue.
* * * * *
Shake one and it awakens; then apply
Its polisht lips to your attentive ear,
And it remembers its august abodes,
And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there. "
Compare, too, _The Excursion_, bk. iv. --
"I have seen
A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract
Of inland ground, applying to his ear
The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell,
To which, in silence hushed, his very soul
Listened intently," etc.
Landor, in his _Satire upon Satirists_, 1836, p. 29, commenting on
Wordsworth's alleged remark that he "would not give five shillings for
all the poetry that Southey had written" (see _Letters_, 1900, iv.
Appendix IX. pp. 483, 484), calls attention to this unacknowledged
borrowing, "It would have been honester," he says, "and more decorous if
the writer of the following verses had mentioned from what bar he drew
his wire. " According to H. C. Robinson (_Diary_, 1869, iii. 114),
Wordsworth acknowledged no obligation to Landor's _Gebir_ for the image
of the sea-shell.
"From his childhood the shell was familiar to him,
etc. The 'Satire' seemed to give Wordsworth little annoyance. "]
[395] {615}[In his Preface to Cantos I. , II. of _Childe Harold_
(_Poetical Works_, 1899, ii. 5), Byron relies on the authority of
"Ariosto Thomson and Beattie" for the inclusion of droll or satirical
"variations" in a serious poem. Nevertheless, Dallas prevailed on him to
omit certain "ludicrous stanzas. " It is to be regretted that no one
suggested the excision of sections xix. -xxi. from the second canto of
The Island. ]
[396] Hobbes, the father of Locke's and other philosophy, was an
inveterate smoker,--even to pipes beyond computation.
["Soon after dinner he [Hobbes] retired to his study, and had his
candle, with ten or twelve pipes of tobacco laid by him; then, shutting
his door, he fell to smoking, and thinking, and writing for several
hours. "--_Memoirs of the Family of Cavendish_, by White Kennet, D. D. ,
1708, pp. 14, 15.
