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Raffaelle was too ostentatious of meaning; his merits were too obvious, too much thrust upon the understanding; not retired nor involved, so as to need discovery or solution. Without doubt, Lamb's taste on several matters was peculiar; for instance, there were a few obsolete words, such as arride, agnize, burgeon, &c., which he fancied, and chose to rescue from oblivion.
The quotation is a reference to Lamb's sonnet, "I was not Trained in Academic Bowers," written at Cambridge in 1819: Yet can I fancy, wandering 'mid thy towers, Myself a nursling, Granta, of thy lap; My brow seems tightening with the Doctor's cap, And I walk gownèd. Agnize. Lamb was fond of this word. I do agnise A natural and prompt alacrity. Red-letter days. See note on page 351.
When the amazed bishops exclaimed against so unheard-of an innovation, Doctor Legh justified the order by saying, that it was well to compel the prelates to know and feel their new position; and in the fact of their suspension by a royal commission, to "agnize" the king as the source of episcopal authority.
The consciousness of the actual world proceeds from the necessity of action, and not the reverse i.e., the necessity of action from the consciousness of such a world. The necessity is first not the consciousness; that is derived. We do not act because we agnize, but we agnize because we are destined to act. Practical reason is the root of all reason.
It is pleasant to think, however, that it was the means of restoring the old intimacy between Southey and Lamb, and also of strengthening the friendship between Lamb and Hazlitt, which some misunderstanding, at that time, had a little loosened. "MY DEAR PROCTER: I do agnize a shame in not having been to pay my congratulations to Mrs. "But indeed I am ill at these ceremonious inductions.
Well, I do agnize something of the sort. In the first place * and then it sends you home with such increased appetite to your books * not to say, that your outside sheets, and waste wrappers of foolscap, do receive into them, most kindly and naturally, the impression of sonnets, epigrams, essays so that the very parings of a counting-house are, in some sort, the settings up of an author.
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