Note 167 — PHASES OF ENGLISH PROTESTANTISM.
Reading edition
Professor Jowett, Essays and Reviews, ninth ed. p. 377. This essay contains several jokes, which to us seem rather out of place. "Even the Greek Plato," says the professor, (p. 390,) "would have 'coldly furnished forth' the words of 'eternal life.'" The reader will remember the words of Shakespeare,
"The funeral baked meats Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables,"
meaning (as is shown by the preceding words, Thrift, thrift, Horatio!) that the marriage had followed so close upon the funeral that the pasties which had been hot at the one came up cold at the other. The new turn given by Mr. Jowett to his original has, we admit, a very humorous effect; but we cannot help thinking that he has been unseasonably witty.