176 love's MEINIE. 



mighty men, as in the lesson that we have 

 from the mariner of Coleridge, and yet more 

 truly and rightly taught in the Hartleap 

 Well :— 



' Never to blend our pleasure, or our pride, 

 With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.' 



And again in the White Doe of Rylstone, with 

 the added teaching, that anguish of our own 



' Is tempered and allayed by sympathies, 

 Aloft ascending, and descending deep, 

 Even to the inferior kinds ; ' 



SO that I know not of anything more destructive 

 of the whole theoretic faculty, not to say of 

 the Christian character and human intellect, 

 than those accursed sports, in which man makes 

 of himself, cat, tiger, serpent, ch^todon, and 

 alligator in one; and gathers into one con- 

 tinuance of cruelty, for his amusement, all the 

 devices that brutes sparingly, and at intervals, 

 use against each other for their necessities." 



132. So much I had perceived, and said, you 

 observe, good reader, concerning S. Francis of 

 Assisi, and his sermons, when I was only five- 

 and-twenty, — little thinking at that day how, 

 Evangelical-bred as I was, I should ever come 



