[155] Savourest?

[156] The first I ever saw of its hymns was on a broad-sheet of Christmas Carols, with coloured pictures, printed in Seven Dials.

[157] They passed through twenty editions, not to mention one lately published (by Daniel Sedgwick, of 81, Sun-street, Bishopsgate, a man who, concerning hymns and their writers, knows more than any other man I have met), from which, carefully edited, I have gathered all my information, although I had known the book itself for many years.

[158] The animal spirits of the old physiologists.

[159] In the following five lines I have adopted the reading of the first edition, which, although a little florid, I prefer to the scanty two lines of the later.

[160] False in feeling, nor like God at all, although a ready pagan representation of him.  There is much of the pagan left in many Christians—­poets too.

[161] Insisting—­persistent.

[162] Great cloudy ridges, one rising above the other, like a grand stair up to the heavens. See Wordsworth’s note.

[163] The mountain.

[164] These two lines are just the symbol for the life of their author.

[165] From the rose-light on the snow of its peak.

[166] They all flow from under the glaciers, fed by their constant melting.

[167] Turning for contrast to the glaciers, which he apostrophizes in the next line.

[168] Antecedent, peaks.

[Transcriber’s Note:  In this electronic edition, the footnotes have been numbered and relocated to the end of the work.  In chapter 14, the word “Iris”, which appears in our print copy, seems to be a misprint for “Isis” and was corrected as such.]