‘If to her share some female errors fall,Look on her face, and you’ll forget ’em all.’
‘If to her share some female errors fall,Look on her face, and you’ll forget ’em all.’
‘If to her share some female errors fall,Look on her face, and you’ll forget ’em all.’
‘If to her share some female errors fall,
Look on her face, and you’ll forget ’em all.’
A Howard.John Howard (1726–1790), prison philanthropist.
A Sir Hudson Lowe.1769–1844. As jailor of Napoleon in St. Helena he endured much obloquy.
Charity covers a multitude of sins.1 Peter, iv. 8.
The meanest peasant on the bleakest mountain.Sterne’sSentimental Journey. The Bourbonnois.
Talma.François Joseph Talma (1763–1826), one of the greatest of French tragic actors.
84.Mr. Justice Fielding.William, eldest son of the novelist (1748–1820). He was magistrate for Westminster.
Colonel Bath.InAmelia.
Administer to a mind diseased.Macbeth,V.3.
85.A little lower than the angels.Psalmsviii. 5.
And when I think that his immortal wings.Heaven and Earth, PartI.Scene 1.
The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure.? Northcote’s.
86.Enter[Open]Sessami. The words that opened the cave door inAli Baba and the Forty Thieves.
87.The late Mr. Sheridan.Richard Brinsley Sheridan died in 1816.
Coin his smile for drachmas.‘I had rather coin my heart, and drop my blood for drachmas.’Julius Cæsar,IV.3.
FromThe New Monthly Magazine, No. 33, Vol.VIII., 1823, ‘Table Talk,VIII.’
88.Mr. Nollekens.Joseph Nollekens, died in 1823.
‘A man’s a man for a’ that.’ Burns, ‘Is there for honest poverty.’
89.Chantry.Sir Francis Legatt Chantrey (1781–1841). The wealth he accumulated by means of his art was given to the Royal Academy for the purchase of works of art executed in Great Britain.
Have wrought himself to stone.Cf. ‘I have not yet forgot myself to stone.’ Pope,Eloisa to Abelard, 24.
As when a vulture on Imaus bred.Paradise Lost,III.431.
89.Bernini.Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini (1598–1680), painter, sculptor and architect. He was called the Michael Angelo of his times.
Roubilliac.Louis Francis Roubilliac, French sculptor (d. 1762). He executed the statue of Sir Isaac Newton, Trinity College, Cambridge. The monument to the Duke of Argyle, in Westminster Abbey, is his.
Day.Alexander Day, miniature painter and picture-dealer (1772–1841).
Barry.James T. Barry, painter and art critic (1741–1806), who was patronised by Burke.
And by the force of blear illusion.
‘As by the strength of their illusionShall draw him on to his confusion.’Macbeth,III.5.
‘As by the strength of their illusionShall draw him on to his confusion.’Macbeth,III.5.
‘As by the strength of their illusionShall draw him on to his confusion.’Macbeth,III.5.
‘As by the strength of their illusion
Shall draw him on to his confusion.’
Macbeth,III.5.
See also ‘blear illusion,’ Comus, 155, and vol.IV.The Spirit of the Age, p. 214, where the same combination occurs.
90.Flaxman.John Flaxman (1755–1826), sculptor and designer.
Cosway.Richard Cosway (d. 1821), the miniaturist.
Bears a charmed life.Macbeth,V.7.
Exhibition at Somerset-house.The Royal Academy’s rooms were there. See vol.VI.Conversations of James Northcote, note to p. 435.
91.His life spins round on its soft axle.
‘Or she from west her silent course advanceWith inoffensive pace that spinning sleepsOn her soft axle.’Paradise Lost,VIII.165.
‘Or she from west her silent course advanceWith inoffensive pace that spinning sleepsOn her soft axle.’Paradise Lost,VIII.165.
‘Or she from west her silent course advanceWith inoffensive pace that spinning sleepsOn her soft axle.’Paradise Lost,VIII.165.
‘Or she from west her silent course advance
With inoffensive pace that spinning sleeps
On her soft axle.’
Paradise Lost,VIII.165.
Age cannot wither.Antony and Cleopatra,II.2.
92.Captain Englefield and his crew.‘Captain Englefield and his crew escaping from the wreck of the Centaur’ was Northcote’s first ‘historical’ picture.
One Jeffrey ... artist.? James Jeffreys (1757–1784), who obtained the gold medal for the best historical picture in 1774, and whose ‘Destruction of the Spanish Batteries before Gibraltar’ was engraved by Woollett.
93.His story of Isabella.The Decameron, Fourth Day, Fifth Novel.
West(the late President of the Royal Academy). Benjamin West, who was elected P.R.A. on the death of Sir Joshua Reynolds in 1792. He died in 1820.
94.Of no mark or likelihood.1 King Henry IV.,III.2.
95.Loutherbourg.Philip James Loutherbourg (1740–1812), landscape painter.
Blake.William Blake, poet and artist (1759–1827).
Sharp.William Sharp, engraver (1740–1824). He was a follower of Mesmer, Swedenborg and Joanna Southcott.
Varley.John Varley, landscape-painter (1778–1842).
96.Mr. Cipriani.Giambattista Cipriani, a painter of Florentine birth and one of the original members of the Royal Academy (1727–1785).
Shall look upon his like again.Hamlet,I.2.
97.Present no mark to the foe-man[enemy].2 King Henry IV.,III.4.
Defy augury.Hamlet,V.2.
Teniers.David Teniers, the younger (1610–1694). See vol.VIII.Lectures on the English Comic Writers, pp. 139 and 141 and notes.
Wilkie.Sir David Wilkie (1785–1841).
98.Hoppner.John Hoppner (1759–1810), portrait and landscape painter, who excelled in portraits of women and children.
——. Mr. W. C. Hazlitt suggests that Godwin is meant.
99.Turner.J. M. W. Turner, the greatest English landscape painter (1775–1851).
The wisest, meanest of mankind.Pope’sEssay on Man, Ep.IV.281, applied to Bacon.
W***. Wellington.
100.Lord Castlereagh.Seeante, note to p. 13.
To throw a cruel sunshine on a fool.Armstrong,The Art of Preserving Health, BookIV.
The Miss Hornecks.See vol.VI.Table Talk, note to p. 93.
Mr. C——.Croker.
101. Note. Richard Cumberland (1732–1811), the dramatist, described by Goldsmith as ‘the Terence of England.’
102.Incredulus odi.Horace,De Arte Poet., 188.
103.Acis and Galatea.A serenata by John Gay (1688–1732), produced at the Haymarket with Handel’s music, 1732. See the 1st chorus in partII.
104.Mr. Croley.George Croly (1780–1860), author of the romance ofSalathiel(1829), and numerous other works.
105.The Royal Society of Authors.Probably the Royal Society for the advancement of General Literature, founded 1823. Croly was on the council.
Sir Andrew Wylie.John Galt’s (1779–1839) novel,Sir Andrew Wylie of that Ilk, was published in 1822.
107.Galled his kibe.Hamlet,V.1.
Sir Peter Lely.Pieter Van der Faes (1618–1680), whose father changed the family name to Lely; painter (of Westphalian birth) of the Beauties of the Court of Charles II.
FromThe New Monthly Magazine, No. 35, Vol.VIII., 1823, ‘Table Talk,IX.’
107.The beggar in the street.The Author himself painted a small portrait in oils of a poor old woman whom he met near Manchester in 1803. [W. C. H.]
108.When he sat to me.In 1804, when the sitter was in his 67th year, and Unitarian Minister at Wem in Shropshire.... The picture is still in a fair state of preservation. [W. C. H.]
109.The late Mr. Opie.John Opie (1761–1807), historical painter.
Invisible or dimly seen.Paradise Lost,V.157.
111.The Bunburys.See vol.VI.Mr. Northcote’s Conversations, note to p. 454.
Happy alchemy of mind.Cf. vol.V.Lectures on the English Poets, note to p. 107.
Vandyke married a daughter of Earl Gower.He married, about 1639, Maria Ruthven, granddaughter of the first Earl of Gowrie. SeeConversations of James Northcote, R.A., with James Ward, p. 92, where Northcote is reported as wroth with Hazlitt for having given the Earl’s name as Cowper. The change from Cowper to Gower, as given in the present text, is because of an erratum-direction to that effect behind the ‘Contents of the First Volume,’ in the original edition.
A painter of the name of Astley ... Lady ——.John Astley, portrait-painter (?1730–1787), married Lady Daniell. See Redgrave’s Dictionary.
112.Had Petrarch gained his Laura, etc.
‘Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch’s wife,He would have written sonnets all his life?’Don Juan, CantoIII.Stanza 8.
‘Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch’s wife,He would have written sonnets all his life?’Don Juan, CantoIII.Stanza 8.
‘Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch’s wife,He would have written sonnets all his life?’Don Juan, CantoIII.Stanza 8.
‘Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch’s wife,
He would have written sonnets all his life?’
Don Juan, CantoIII.Stanza 8.
112.St. Preux.In Rousseau’sJulie ou la Nouvelle Héloïse(1760).
113.Till the sense aches at it.Othello,IV.2.
Amorous toys of light-winged Cupid.
‘Light-wing’d toys of feather’d Cupid.’Othello,I.3.
‘Light-wing’d toys of feather’d Cupid.’Othello,I.3.
‘Light-wing’d toys of feather’d Cupid.’Othello,I.3.
‘Light-wing’d toys of feather’d Cupid.’
Othello,I.3.
Canova.Antonio Canova (1757–1822), Venetian sculptor.
114.The world forgetting.Pope’sEloisa to Abelard, 208.
Or stock-dove plain amid the forest deep.Thomson,The Castle of Indolence,I.4.
Think of its crimes.Thomson,An Hymn on Solitude.
115.Lord Keppel.Augustus Viscount Keppel (1725–1786), one of the English Admirals. He and his second in command, Sir Hugh Palliser, were court-martialled for permitting the French fleet to escape after an indecisive battle off Ushant, 27th July 1778. Both were acquitted.
Mr. C——r ... made the House stare.SeeHansard, N. S.,IX., 1211, June 25, 1823, for Croker’s remarks.
116.To lie like Whitfield.Whitfield was buried in 1770. When the coffin was opened in 1784, the body was found to be perfect. See L. Tyerman’sLife,II.602–3. Possibly it is to this that Hazlitt refers.
Warm, kneaded motion to a clog.
This sensible warm motion to becomeA kneaded clod.Measure for Measure,III.1.
This sensible warm motion to becomeA kneaded clod.Measure for Measure,III.1.
This sensible warm motion to becomeA kneaded clod.Measure for Measure,III.1.
This sensible warm motion to become
A kneaded clod.
Measure for Measure,III.1.
117.Bolingbroke.Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke (1672–1751), statesman, writer and friend of Pope.
Sir William Temple.Diplomatist and essayist (1628–1700).
Sees not itself.Julius Cæsar,I.2.
A phœnix gazed by all.Paradise Lost,V.272.
118.Materiam superabat opus.Ovid, Met.,II.5.
Our poesy is a gum which issues[oozes].Timon of Athens,I.1.
119.Invita Minervâ.Seeante, note to p. 8.
120.The glory, the intuition, the amenity.Lamb’s ‘Lines on the Celebrated Picture by Leonardo da Vinci, called “The Virgin of the Rocks.”’
Through happiness or pains.Pope’sEpistle to Mr. Jervas, l. 68.
I write this at Winterslow.See vol.VI.Table Talk, note to p. 90.
My mind to me a kingdom is.From Sir Edward Dyer’s lyric in Byrd’sPsalms and Sonnets(1588).
That character of Millimant.See vol.VIII.Lectures on the English Comic Writers, pp. 73–4.
Signior Orlando Friscobaldo.In Dekker’sThe Honest Whore, Part II. See vol.V.Lectures on the Literature of the Age of Elizabeth, pp. 335,et seq.
122.Webster or Deckar.John Webster (? d. 1625) and Thomas Dekker (c. 1570–c. 1637). See vol. v.Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth.
Schlegel.In hisLectures on Dramatic Art and Literature. See vol.I.Characters of Shakespear’s Plays, note to p. 171.
The Descent of Liberty.Leigh Hunt’s Mask, with a dedication from Surrey Jail was published in 1815.
122.When the mighty fell.Napoleon.
123.Cried out upon in the top of the compass.Cf.Hamlet,III.2.
‘You would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass.’
‘You would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass.’
‘You would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass.’
‘You would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass.’
andII.2.
‘An eyrie of children, little eyases, that cry out on the top of question.’
‘An eyrie of children, little eyases, that cry out on the top of question.’
‘An eyrie of children, little eyases, that cry out on the top of question.’
‘An eyrie of children, little eyases, that cry out on the top of question.’
Mr. Jerdan recommends the volume of Characteristics.See vol.III.of the present edition for Hazlitt’sCharacteristics, and particulars of their publication. The book was favourably reviewed in theLiterary Gazettefor July 12, 1823.
The Story of Rimini.Published in 1816, and savagely reviewed inBlackwood’s Magazine, May 1818.
An Adonis of fifty.See vol.IV.The Spirit of the Age, note to p. 358.
Return, Alpheus.Lycidas, 132–3.
Look abroad into universality.Bacon,Advancement of Learning, BookI.
124.A. P. E.Alexander Pope, Esquire.
They take in vain.Exodus,XX.7.
It is all one as we should love.All’s Well that Ends Well,I.1.
125.Fast-anchored in the deep abyss of time[space]. Cowper,Retirement, l. 84.
The face of heaven so bright.SeeRomeo and Juliet,II.2, 20–2.
Bartlemy-Fair.A famous fair was held at West Smithfield, 1133–1855 about the time of the festival of St. Bartholomew, August 24.
The high endeavour and the glad success.Cowper,The Task,V.901.
126.Bis repetita crambe.‘Occidit miseros crambe repetita magistros,’ Juvenal,VII.154.
Annibal Caracci.Annibale Caracci (1560–1609), painter of the Farnese Gallery, in Rome.
127. ‘Love for Love.’ Congreve’s comedy, 1695.
Miss Mellon.Harriet Mellon (1775–1837), later, Duchess of St. Alban’s. She began on the stage as a child in boys’ parts, was introduced by Sheridan to London, where she played ‘Lydia Languish’ inThe Rivals, at Drury Lane, January 1795, and became a popular hoyden. Mr. Coutts, the banker, fell in love with her, and married her soon after the death of his wife in 1814, and when he died in 1822 his wealth passed to her. In 1827 she married William, Duke of St. Alban’s, whose age was 27. After providing handsomely for him, she left the bulk of her property to Mr. Coutts’ granddaughter, Miss Angela Burdett.
Bob Palmer.(1757–?1805.)
Bannister.John Bannister (1760–1836).
Lines to a Spider.Probably those inThe Liberal(Byron, Shelley and Hunt’s Quarterly), vol.II.177.
128.The milk of human kindness.Macbeth,I.5.
As Mr. Burke observes.Sublime and Beautiful, Part I. § 15. Last line but one,matter, ? a slip for ‘nature.’
129.We subscribe to new editions of Fox’s Book of Martyrs.A folio edition was published by subscription by Thomas Kelly, London, 1811.
Off, you lendings!Lear,III.4.
Panopticons.Jeremy Bentham’s name for his method of prison supervision. See vol.IV.The Spirit of the Age, note to p. 197.
129.Mr. Owen’s impassable Parallelograms.Cf. vol.III.Political Essays, pp. 121–7.
Mr. Irving ... Caledonian Chapel.See vol.IV.The Spirit of the Age, p. 222,et seq.
’Tis pretty, though a plague.All’s Well that Ends Well,I.I.
Upon this bank and shoal of time.Macbeth,I.7.
130.Outdo[o’er doing]termagant.Hamlet,III.2.
A most.? A misprint for ‘almost.’
That which was luscious as locusts.Othello,I.3.
131.Epistle to Robert Southey, Esq.See the Letter of Elia to Robert Southey, Esq., inThe London Magazine, Oct. 1823.
That I myself have celebrated.Seeante, the Essay ‘On the Conversation of Authors.’
132.H——? Joseph Hume of the Pipe Office, not the Radical M.P. (See Lamb’sLetters, ed. W. C. Hazlitt,I.361, note 1).
Carve them as a dish fit for the Gods.Julius Cæsar,II.I.
L—— H——Leigh Hunt.
John Scott.? John Scott (1783–1821), Editor ofThe London Magazine, who died from a wound received in a duel from Christie, Lockhart’s friend.
Mrs. ——Montagu.
B——? Burney.
Sans intermission, for hours by the dial.As You Like It,II.7.
Fellows of no mark.1 King Henry IV.,III.2.
——‘s? Hume.
133.Mr. Washington Irvine a very fine writer.Cf. vol.IV.The Spirit of the Age.
Mr. Liston.John Liston (1776–1846).
134.Gone into the wastes of time.‘But thou among the wastes of time must go.’ Shakespeare’sSonnets,XII.
Mr. Moore’s Loves of the Angels.Of Mr. Moore’s poem, published on Jan. 1, 1823, five editions were exhausted in one year.
Sitting in my window.Beaumont and Fletcher’sPhilaster,V.5.
[Heaved from a sheepcote].
[Heaved from a sheepcote].
[Heaved from a sheepcote].
[Heaved from a sheepcote].
The wine of poetry is drank.
‘The wine of life is drawn, and the mere leesIs left this vault to brag of.’Macbeth,II.3.
‘The wine of life is drawn, and the mere leesIs left this vault to brag of.’Macbeth,II.3.
‘The wine of life is drawn, and the mere leesIs left this vault to brag of.’Macbeth,II.3.
‘The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees
Is left this vault to brag of.’
Macbeth,II.3.
135.Play[sport]with Amaryllis in the shade.Lycidas, 68.
Fonthill.The residence of ‘Vathek’ Beckford.
To every good work reprobate.Epistle to Titus, i. 16.
136.Of whom the world was not worthy.Epistle to the Hebrews, xi. 38.
This was some time a mystery.‘This was some time a paradox, but now the time gives it proof.’Hamlet,III.1.
The rose plucked from the forehead of a virtuous love.
‘Takes off the roseFrom the fair forehead of an innocent loveAnd sets a blister there.’Hamlet,III.4.
‘Takes off the roseFrom the fair forehead of an innocent loveAnd sets a blister there.’Hamlet,III.4.
‘Takes off the roseFrom the fair forehead of an innocent loveAnd sets a blister there.’Hamlet,III.4.
‘Takes off the rose
From the fair forehead of an innocent love
And sets a blister there.’
Hamlet,III.4.
137. Note.The Sentinel.See vol.VI.Conversations of James Northcote, p. 518, and footnote.
Daddy Ratton.In Scott’sHeart of Midlothian.
ESSAY XIV. ON DR. SPURZHEIM’S THEORY
137.Drs. Gall and Spurzheim.Seeante, EssayOn Dreams.
138.A book where men may read strange matters.Macbeth,I.5.
Draws the curtain.Twelfth Night,I.5.
139.Whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders.Othello.I.3.
140.Here be truths ... dashed and brewed with lies.Dryden,Absalom and Achitophel,I.114. Cf. also a similar passage in Addison (The Spectator, 580).
With other matters of like pith and moment.Cf. ‘enterprizes of great pith and moment.’Hamlet,III.I.
If these things are done in the green tree.S. Luke, xxiii. 31.
141.The Alchemist.By Ben Jonson, 1610.
144.Malebranche.Nicolas Malebranche (1638–1715), whoseDe la Recherche de la Véritéwas published in 1674.
146.Gaubius Gobbo.‘Good Launcelot Gobbo,’Merchant of Venice,II.2.
147.There needs no ghost to tell us that.Hamlet,I.5.
149.The Wonderful Magazine.The Wonderful Magazine, or Marvellous Chronicle, or New Weekly Entertainer, a journal of the latter half of the eighteenth century, with varying titles.
King Ferdinand.Possibly the reference is to the Cortes having let Ferdinand leave Cadiz (whither they had carried him) during the siege by the French on Oct. 1, 1813, in order to make terms with the French.
153.It follows, as the night the day.Hamlet,I.3.
155.So as with a difference.Hamlet,IV.5.
156. Note.Dr. Combe of Edinburgh.The phrenological Combes were George (1788–1858), W.S. and moral philosopher, and his brother, Andrew (1797–1847), doctor of medicine.
Fancy in himself.‘I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.’2 King Henry IV.,I.2.
157. Note.Squandering glances.As You Like It,II.7.
158.King Cambyses’ vein.1 King Henry IV.,II.4.
Vain and self-conceit.‘Self and vain conceit,’King Richard II.,III.2.
Getting the start of the majestic world.Julius Cæsar,I.2.
160.Mr.—— Mill. Seepost, note to p. 183.
The present Lord Chancellor.John Scott, Lord Eldon (1751–1838), who had no love for literature or art.
Madame Catalani.Angelica Catalani (1779–1849) the popular Italian singer. She made £10,000 in four months in London.
161.The late Chancellor (Erskine).Thomas Erskine, 1750–1823.
162.Et propter vitam vivendi perdere causas.Juvenal,VIII.83.
163.Wisdom is justified of her children.S. Matthew, xi. 19.
Throw our bread upon the waters.Eccles., xi. 1.
When Goldsmith was talking one day.See Boswell’sJohnson(ed. G. B. Hill),II.231.
Hervey’s Meditations.The Rev. James Hervey’s (1714–1758)Meditations and Contemplationswere highly esteemed in their day.
164.Westall.Richard Westall (1765–1836).
Angelica Kauffman.Maria Anna Angelica Kauffmann (1741–1807), a Swiss painter of (chiefly) female characters, many of which were engraved by Bartolozzi.
165.Arkwright.Sir Richard Arkwright (1732–1792).
166.A cell of ignorance.Cymbeline,III.3.
The only great man in modern times.Napoleon, of course. He died on May 5, 1821, of cancer in the stomach.
Mandeville.Bernard Mandeville (1670?–1733) author ofThe Fable of the Bees(1714).
167.Forget the things that are behind.Philippians, iii. 13.
168.Nothing is but what is not.Macbeth,I.3.
Goldsmith was ever jealous of beauty in the other sex.Seeante, p. 100.
Through listening[wond’ring]senates. Pope’sMoral Essays,I.184–5.
169.Hot, cold, moist, and dry.Paradise Lost,II.298.
Neat-handed Phyllises.L’Allegro, 86.
Native and endued into that element.Hamlet,IV.7.
172.Whose name signifies love.
‘It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.’Merry Wives of Windsor,I.1.
‘It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.’Merry Wives of Windsor,I.1.
‘It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.’Merry Wives of Windsor,I.1.
‘It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.’
Merry Wives of Windsor,I.1.
To be supped upon.Cf.Hamlet,IV.III.18.
‘King.At supper! where?Ham.Not where he eats, but where he is eaten.’
‘King.At supper! where?Ham.Not where he eats, but where he is eaten.’
‘King.At supper! where?
‘King.At supper! where?
Ham.Not where he eats, but where he is eaten.’
Ham.Not where he eats, but where he is eaten.’
173.Here all is conscience.Chaucer,Prologue, 150.
The quills upon the fretful porcupine.Hamlet,I.5.
So drossy and divisible are they.Dryden,The Hind and the Panther,I.319.
Voltaire’s traveller.SeeHistoire des Voyages de Scarmentado.
174. Note.Mr. Scarlett.Probably James Scarlett, afterwards Lord Abinger, who practised in the Northern Circuit and Lancashire Sessions till 1807. Hazlitt received a complimentary letter from Scarlett on the publication ofPrinciples of Human Action. (SeeFour Generations of a Literary Family,I.92–3, andMemoirs,I.112, andpost, note toPrinciples of Human Action).
Sterne asks why a sword.Tristram Shandy, Bk.IX.chap. 33.
Note.Mr. Shepherd.Seeante, note to p. 61.
175.The sovereign’st thing on earth.1 King Henry IV.,I.3.
Makes the odds all even.Measure for Measure,III.I.
Hacquet’s Travels in Carpathia.Balthasar Hacquet’s (1740–1815) book was published in 1790–6 at Nürnberg.
176.Dull, cold winter does inhabit here.‘But dead-cold winter must inhabit here.’The Two Noble Kinsmen, ActII.1.
Long purples.Hamlet,IV.7.
Take the good the Gods provide them.Dryden,Alexander’s Feast, 105.
Appliances and means to boot.2 King Henry IV.,III.1.
‘A man,’ says Yorick, ‘finds an apple.’Tristram Shandy,III.34.
180.Good haters.Mrs. Piozzi, in herAnecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson(Johnsonian Miscellanies, ed. G. B. Hill, I. 204), writes: ‘Dear Bathurst (said he to me one day) was a man to my very heart’s content: he hated a fool, and he hated a rogue, and he hated aWhig; he was a very goodhater.’ See also vol.I.The Round Table, p. 103.
181.Right-hand defections.Scott’sHeart of Midlothian, vol.I.chap.XII.
A consummation.‘Devoutly to be wished.’Hamlet,III.1.
What more felicity can fall to creature?Spenser’sMuiopotmos, or the Fate of the Butterflie, 27.
183.Goodœillades.Cf.Merry Wives,I.3, ‘judiciousœillades,’ andKing Lear,IV.5, ‘strangeœillades.’
Mr. Hobhouse.John Cam Hobhouse (1786–1869), Byron’s friend.
One of them has a place at the India House.James Mill (1773–1836), who, in spite of his radical opinions, was appointed Assistant-Examiner of Indian Correspondence in 1819.
Their attacks on the Edinburgh Review.The Westminster Review, financed by Bentham and edited by Bowring, was founded in January 1824. Its first numbers contained a series of assaults on theEdinburgh(Cf.post, p. 381);Redgauntletwas damned in the third number (July 1824, vol.II.p. 179); and the article on Moore’sLife of Sheridanappeared in the number for October, 1825, vol.IV.pp. 371–407. The allusion to Sheridan as an unsuccessful adventurer will be found on p. 404.
184.A discipline of humanity.Bacon’s Essays,Of Marriage and Civil Life.
The treatment of Mr. Buckingham.James Silk Buckingham (1786–1855) established at Calcutta in 1818 a paper calledThe Calcutta Journal, which censured the abuses of the Indian Government, and was suppressed by John Adams, temporary Governor-General, in April, 1823.
Mr. Hall.Robert Hall, the celebrated Baptist preacher (1764–1831). His removal from Leicester, where he had served as pastor of the Baptist congregation for twenty years, to Bristol, took place in 1826, when he succeeded Dr. Ryland as head of the Baptist College at Bristol and pastor of Broadmead Chapel.
185.Sir Richard Blackmore.Court physician to William and Anne. He died in 1729, after having written six epics in sixty books.
186.Sir Robert Peel ... calico printing.1750–1830. He carried on a cotton factory at Bury with great success, and devoted much time to the improvement of machinery.
Elements of Political Economy, by James Mill.James Mill’s work was published in 1821.
Principles of Political Economy.By John Ramsay M’Culloch (1789–1864). Published 1820.
Strange! that such difference there should be.John Byrom,On the Feuds between Handel and Bononcini.
Mr. M——.? James Mill (1773–1836).
Mr. P.Is Thomas Love Peacock is meant? He was the author ofRhododaphne(1818), the poem possibly referred to asRhodopein Hazlitt’s note to p. 187. Peacock attacked poetry in hisFour Ages of Poetry, contributed to Ollier’sLiterary Pocket Bookin 1820, and was answered by Shelley in hisDefence of Poetry. Though Peacock has not been associated with Utilitarianism, yet his place at the India-House, where he was a fellow-clerk of James Mill’s, may have lent colour to the assumption that he was ‘one of them.’
Mr. Pl——.Francis Place, radical reformer (1771–1854).
The Last Man.Thomas Campbell’s poemThe Last Manwas printed in theNew Monthly Magazine, vol. 8, No. 33, 1823. Perhaps Hazlitt had its title in mind.
188.Thereafter as it happens.2 King Henry IV.,III.2. ‘Thereafter as they be.’
Primrose paths.Hamlet,I.3.
The Hypocrite.Bickerstaff’s comedy (1768), based, throughThe Nonjuror(1717), on Molière’sTartuffe(1664).
192.Swear, with Lord Peter.The Tale of a Tub, SectionIV.
Its quality is not strained.Merchant of Venice,IV.1.
193.Dignum(the singer). Charles Dignum (1765?–1827), of Drury Lane.
Suett.Richard Suett (d. 1805), a comic actor, very popular at Drury Lane.
‘No Song, No Supper.’ A musical entertainment of Hoare’s (1790), with music by Storace. See a letter from Hazlitt to his father (Memoirs,I.17–18), from which it appears that it was at Liverpool in 1790 (not 1792) that he saw this piece.
The false Florimel.The Faerie Queen, Bk.III.canto 8.
The grinding law of necessity.The reference here and elsewhere is to Malthus. See vol.IV.A Reply to MalthusandThe Spirit of the Age.
194.Opens all the cells where memory slept.Cowper,The Task,VI.11–12.
Who enters there.Dante’sInferno,III.1. 9.
FromThe London Magazine, vol.I., June 1820, ‘Table Talk, 1.’
195.The race is not to the swift.Eccles. ix. 11.
A Minister of State.Probably Castlereagh, who led the House of Commons until, upon his father’s death in April 1821, he became Lord Londonderry.
196.Aspiring to be Gods.Pope’sEssay on Man,I.127–8.
Appliances and means to boot.2 King Henry IV.,III.1.
Some trick not worth an egg.Coriolanus,IV.4.
There’s but the twinkling of a star.Butler’sHudibras, Part II. CantoIII.956.
197.Constrained by mastery.Cf. Wordsworth,The Excursion,VI.