Note 90 — Chapter IV · ROMANTIC MORALITY: THE IDEAL
Reading edition
See Burton’s Hume, II, 309 (note 2).
This sentimental trait did not escape the authors of the Anti-Jacobin:
Sweet child of sickly Fancy—Her of yore From her lov’d France Rousseau to exile bore; And while midst lakes and mountains wild he ran Full of himself and shunn’d the haunts of man, Taught her o’er each lone vale and Alpine steep To lisp the stories of his wrongs and weep; Taught her to cherish still in either eye Of tender tears a plentiful supply, And pour them in the brooks that babbled by— Taught her to mete by rule her feelings strong, False by degrees and delicately wrong, For the crush’d Beetle, first—the widow’d Dove, And all the warbled sorrows of the grove, Next for poor suff’ring Guilt—and last of all, For Parents, Friends, or King and Country’s fall.