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Gentleman's Magazine 1851 part 1 p.14
I owe to his Notes. I owe him therefore some gratitude."
list, We do not know Hayley's life intimately enough to say on what Southey forms his conclusion upon it. The "something to blame may probably allude to his apparent conviction, "Ne sitancillae tibi amor pudori." The something to admire may be his kind disposition and his unwearied attachment to literature. The most to commiserate, the loss of his children - the separation from his wife - and the diminution of his fortune. It was with great reluctance that Gifford admitted Southey's review of Hayley's Memoirs into the Qtrly, and after long dispute and delay. I can remember him, riding about the Sussex lanes, in a green veil, to defend his eyes from the sun. His last intimate friend was Mr. Mason, the respectable bookseller of Chichester. It is said that Hayley published two editions of his Life of Milton, one addressed to the King, and free from the leaven of democratical principles; the other for his friends, with notes strongly tinctured with their pernicious infatuation. See Seward's Letters, vol.iv. p.46; and see Wrangham's Life of Zouch, vol.i. p.lxxxv. In his Bible, he had transcribed, we are informed by a friend, the following lines from Tasso, as expressive of his faith.

Da cui s'impara
La via di gir al ben perfetto e vero
Fuggir l'ira del tempo, e della morte,
Felice cui, che son si fide scorte
Mandano al ciel il suo gentel pensiero
Vive la sua vita soave e chiara.
P.190. "I am reading Scaliger's Epistles at this time, treading in my uncle's steps. Not long ago I finished Isaac Casaubon's. Oh! what men were these," &c.
The Letters of Casaubon, which Southey read, were those printed in a folio volume in 1719, and edited by Almeloveen. The answers of his learned correspondents to these letters have never been published, though extant in several folio volumes. They were in the library of the late Dr. C. Burney, and are now in the British Museum. His Ephemerides or Diary has been lately printed by the University of Oxford, and edited by Dr. Russell, of which we shall shortly give an account to our readers.
P.202."Bishop Law, the present Bishop's father, advances an opinion that the true nature of revealed religion is gradually disclosed as men become capable of receiving it. Generations, as they advance in knowledge and civilisation, out-growing the errors of their forefathers, so that in fulness of time there will remain neither doubt nor difficulties. He was a great speculator, whether, like one of his sons, he speculated too far I do not knnow, but in this opinion I think he is borne out by history," &c.
See on this Theory of Progress or Development put forth by Bishop Law, Palmer's Treatise on the Doctrine of Development (called forth by Mr. Newman's book on the same subject), 1846, p.96. See also Grant's Bampton Lectures for 1844, p.310, On Law's statement, "that the improvement of the natural faculties and the cultivation and refinement of natural genius are necessary to the reception of Christianity." Bishop Watson refers to a short book of Law's on the Nature and End of Death. See his Life, ii. p.408. The object of Law in this treatise, if I recollect rightly, was to impugn the physical immortality of man.
P.236. "My after supper book at present is Erasmus's Letters, from which I know not whether I derive most pleasure or profit."
In one of Erasmus's Letters I found a notice of Sir Thomas More and his well-known wife, which, so far as I know, has not been drawn into the biographhies of that celebrated man. Erasmus is writing to Quirino Talesio, a pensionary of Harlem and a learned man, and he says, "Quod viduam duxisti, non est, quod te poeniteat. Id malunt, qui uxorem ad usum rei domesticae ducunt, potius quam ad voluptatem. Et qui equos ad usum quaerunt, malunt domitos, quam indomitos. Quod si illa genuit priori marito, tu magni mali liberatus es, ne sterilem duxeris. MORUS, mihi saepenumero narrare solet, se, si centum, uxores ducturus, nullam ducturus esse virginem. Nunc habet vetulam nimium vivacem, quae si migrasset, potuisset ille opulentissimae clarissimaeque feminae maritus ess." This desirable migration of the old lady, however, like many other forlorn husbands, More did not live to see.
P.283. "Here is a volume of Jackson's
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