circle of dames in a gallery or across the apartment, hers was the only face on which the eye would fix, and when all were gone, the only one whose form and behaviour the heart would remember. Treat your friend as a spectacle.' ... Be not so much his friend that you can never know your man, like fond mammas who shut up their boy in the house until he is almost grown a girl. Reverence is a great part of friendship. There must be very two before there can be very one.... Whoso sees Law does not despond.3. . . Pleasant these jets of affection that relume a young world for me again. Delicious is a just and firm encounter of two in a thought, in a feeling. But we must be tormented presently by baffled blows, by sudden unseasonable apathies, by epilepsies of wit and of animal spirits in the heyday of friendship and thought. Our faculties do not play us true. I The rest of the passage is in "Friendship" (Essays, First Series, p. 209). 66 2 See Friendship," pp. 208, 209. 3 See Considerations by the Way" (Conduct of Life, p. 264). This passage is followed by others from "Friendship." 1839] READING 363 AUTHORS OR BOOKS QUOTED OR REFERRED TO IN JOURNAL FOR 1839 Vedas; Pythagoras; Cebes; Aristotle; Galen; Livy; Sallust; Vegetius apud Burton; Saint Augustine, Confessions; The Welsh Bards; Dante, Purgatorio, Paradiso; Petrarch; Michel Angelo; Melancthon, Cardan and Scaliger, apud Burton; William Cartwright and Edward Powell, On John Fletcher; Donne; Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy; Bentley; William Penn; Linnæus, Tours in Lapland; Blair, Rhetoric; Gilbert White, Natural History of Selborne; Harleian Miscellany, French Account of Battle of Lützen, Cavendish on Negotiations of Cardinal Wolsey; Walpole, Letters of Madame du Deffand; Bentley; Crabbe; Burns; Samuel Rogers; Campbell; Humboldt; mains; Wilson; Chateaubriand; Hazlitt, Re Hallam, Literature of Europe; Las Casas; Manzoni; Maroncelli; Keats, Hyperion; Shelley; Mrs. Hemans; Southey; Cooper; Irving; Everett; Stone, Life of Brant; Lieber; Dr. Follen; Graeter; Dickens, Oliver Twist; Forster, Cromwell; Bailey, Festus ; John Sterling; Bryant; Horace Mann; Hawthorne; Jones Very; W. Ellery Channing, Fredrick H. Hedge; Fraser's Magazine. |