" Shelley, misanthropically commencing with the turbulence of the chainless sea: a spirit matured to madness by the overawing and supernatural terrors of German romance: as he asserts himself to be, in his lamentation for the author of Endymion, one who "Had gaz'd on Nature's naked loveliness, Acteon-like, until he fled away.

Patching was misanthropically reviewing his career, and exulting in future triumphs over his professional enemies.