144 Notes and Comment 



105, 28. Cerberus: the three-headed watch-dog at the en- 

 trance to the infernal regions. See Swift's reference in his lines 

 On Poetry: 



" To Cerberus they give a sop, 

 His triple barking mouth to stop." 



106, 10-11. Nothing human comes amiss to it: a reference 

 to the famous saying of Terence: "I am a man, and I con- 

 sider nothing human foreign to me" ("Homo sum; humani 

 nihil a me alienum puto"). 



107, 34. Clifton: Clifton College, in Gloucestershire, one 

 mile west of Bristol. 



109, 34. Mr. Freeman: Edward Augustus Freeman (1823- 

 1892), author of the famous History of the Norman Conquest. 



no, 15. The be-all and end-all: the sum total. See Mac- 

 beth I, vii, 5. 



no, 19-20. William Harvey. See note on line 28, page 32. 



112, 23. The rub. See Hamlet III, i, 65. 



113, 26. Francis Bacon. See note on line 10, page 31. The 

 reference is probably to a sentence in Bacon's Latin essay on 

 Promptitude: " He who errs quickly is quick in correcting the 

 error" (" Qui cito errat, cito errorem emendat"). 



116, 24. Sebastian Bach: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685- 

 1750), a German musician, who shares with Handel the honor 

 of being the Shakespeare of the fugue. 



117, 20. Shakespeare . . . Goethe. See note on lines 31- 

 32, page 60. 



117, 26. Intellectual content. This is a truth of prime 

 importance at all times but especially now when literature is 

 popularly regarded as merely a dainty pastime. David Masson 

 expresses the same truth as follows: "Every artist is a thinker, 

 whether he knows it or not; and ultimately no artist will be 

 found greater as an artist than he was as a thinker." 



122, 4. Chaucer and Shakespeare. See note on lines 31- 

 32, page 60. 



122, 4. Milton. See note on line 6, page 30. 



122, 5. Hobbes and Bishop Berkeley. Thomas Hobbes 

 (1588-1679), an English philosopher, advocated in his Levia- 

 than the doctrine that the power of the state over the individual 

 is absolute. George Berkeley (1685-1753), an Irishman and 

 Bishop of Cloyne, believed that there is no such thing as mat- 

 ter but that everything is spirit. Of Berkeley's doctrine of 



