none of us that may not bring down that lamp upon his path of which
Spenser sang:--

"That beauty is not, as fond men misdeem
An outward show of things, that only seem;
But that fair lamp, from whose celestial ray
That light proceeds, which kindleth lover's fire,
Shall never be extinguished nor decay.
But when the vital spirits do expire,
Unto her native planet shall retire,
For it is heavenly born and cannot die,
Being a parcel of the purest sky."

FOOTNOTES

[38] Rev. vii. 2.

[39] Compare Part II. Sec. I. Chap. III Sec. 6.

[40] De la Poesie Chretienne. Forme de l'Art. Chap. VIII.

[41] As in the noble Louvre picture.

[42] The Madonna turns her back to Christ, and bends her head over
her shoulder to receive the crown, the arms being folded with
studied grace over the bosom.

[43] Compare Michelet, (Du Pretre, de la Femme, de la Famille,)
Chap. III. note. He uses language too violent to be quoted; but
excuses Salvator by reference to the savage character of the Thirty
Years' War. That this excuse has no validity may be proved by
comparing the painter's treatment of other subjects. See Sec. II.
Chap. III. Sec. 19, note.

[44] "The fire, that mounts the liquor, till it run o'er
In seeming to augment it, wastes it."

HENRY VIII.

[45] Sect. II. Chap. III. Sec. 22.

[46] Let it be observed that it is always of beauty, not of human
character in its lower and criminal modifications, that we have been
speaking. That variety of character, therefore, which we have
affirmed to be necessary, is the variety of Giotto and Angelico, not
of Hogarth. Works concerned with the exhibition of general
character, are to be spoken of in the consideration of Ideas of
Relation.

[47] Hooker, Book V. Chap. I. Sec. 2.

[48] "Each corse lay flat, lifeless and flat,
And by the holy rood,
A man all light, a seraph man
By every corse there stood.
This seraph band, each waved his hand,
It was a heavenly sight;
They stood as signals to the land,
Each one a lovely light."

ANCIENT MA