‘That Love will not submit to be controlledBy mastery.’
‘That Love will not submit to be controlledBy mastery.’
‘That Love will not submit to be controlledBy mastery.’
‘That Love will not submit to be controlled
By mastery.’
198.George Psalmanazar.The literary impostor (1679–1763). He was a native of France and pretended to be a Formosan. To keep up the imposition he invented an alphabet and a Formosan grammar.
Enquiry concerning Political Justice.Godwin’s book (1793).
Diversions of Purley.John Horne Tooke’s book was published in 1786–1805. See vol.IV.The Spirit of the Age, p. 231.
Interminable babble.‘Intarissable babil’ in theMagazine.
Tongue with a garnish of brains.Goldsmith,Retaliation, 6.
Wimbledon.Where Horne Tooke lived.
With a nostrum in his mouth.See Alexander Stephens’sMemoirs of John Horne Tooke, Esq., vol.II.p. 445, ‘While yet in perfect possession of his senses, and uncertain of his impending fate, although conscious it could not be long protracted, the patient eagerly inquired’ [of Sir Francis Burdett] ‘concerning the effect produced on the House of Commons by the motion relative to thepunishmentof soldiers?...
‘As he had once more been relieved by cordials, notwithstanding he was told it was now in vain, the member for Westminster prepared to administer one with his own hand. Having knelt for this purpose, the dying man opened his eyes for the last time, and seeing who it was that presented the potion, he swallowed it with avidity.’
The late Professor Porson.Richard Porson (1759–1808), Greek scholar and critic.
198.The Member for Old Sarum.Seeante, note to p. 6.
The man of perhaps the greatest ability now living.Coleridge. Cf.The Spirit of the Age.
199.Duns Scotus to Jacob Behmen.John Duns, the ‘subtle doctor’; Jacob Bœhmen (1575–1624), German mystic.
Discoursed in eloquent music.Hamlet,III.2.
Ten thousand great ideas.Thomson’sCastle of Indolence,I.lix.
Non ex quovis ligno fit Mercurius.Erasmus,Adagiorum Chiliades, ‘Munus aptum.’
Though he had all knowledge.1 Corinthians, xiii. 1, 2.
200.You cannot gather grapes of thorns.S. Matthew, vii. 16.
Respice finem.See vol.VI.Table Talk, note to p. 27.
To get the start of the majestic world.Julius Cæsar,I.2.
201.Mens divinior.Horace,Sat.I.IV.43.
202.Vox faucibus hæsit.Vergil,Æneid,II.774.
With a confident brow.2 King Henry IV.,II.1.
Too deep for his hearers.Goldsmith’sRetaliation, 35.
A soul as fair.Thomson,Castle of Indolence,II.33.
Fell flat, and shamed their worshippers.Paradise Lost,I.461.
How he cuts up in the caul.Burke,A Letter to a Noble Lord(Works, Bohn,V.145).
203.Sterne’s description of Mr. Hammond Shandy.Tristram Shandy,III.10.
On that point.TheMagazineadds ‘Petulant set his mark.’ Congreve,The Way of the World,V.3.
For women, born to be controll’d.Waller:Of Love, 13–16:
‘For women (born to be control’d)Stoop to the forward and the bold:Affect the haughty and the proud,The gay, the frolic, and the loud.’
‘For women (born to be control’d)Stoop to the forward and the bold:Affect the haughty and the proud,The gay, the frolic, and the loud.’
‘For women (born to be control’d)Stoop to the forward and the bold:Affect the haughty and the proud,The gay, the frolic, and the loud.’
‘For women (born to be control’d)
Stoop to the forward and the bold:
Affect the haughty and the proud,
The gay, the frolic, and the loud.’
Scrub in the farce.In Farquhar’sBeaux’ Stratagem.
204.Doubtless, the pleasure is as great.Butler’sHudibras, Part II. CantoIII.1.
The art of being well deceived.See vol.I.The Round Table, p. 84.
A writer whom I know very well.Himself.
Sup at the Shakespeare.The noted theatrical tavern in the Piazza, Covent Garden. See Timbs’History of Clubs and Club-Life in London, ed. 1886, p. 427.
205.His next answer to Vetus.See vol.III.Political Essays, p. 57 and note.
The graceful ornaments, etc.Cf. Burke,Reflections on the Revolution in France(Select Works, ed. Payne,II.164).
‘Don’t you remember,’ says Gray.Letter to Richard West, May 27, 1742.
A man of genius a coxcomb in dress.Cf. vol.I.The Round Table, p. 95.
Prince Prettyman.In the Duke of Buckingham’sRehearsal(1671).
206.Nihil humani.Terence,Heautontimorumenos,I.1.
The flattery that soothes the dull cold ear of death.Gray’sElegy, 11.
207.Lady Mary Wortley Montague.(c. 1690–1762), the correspondent of Pope and Addison.
A. P. E.Alexander Pope, Esquire.
Ere we have shuffled off that mortal coil.Hamlet,III.1.
The real story of David Ritchie.David Ritchie, a dwarf, of Manor, Peeblesshire, was the original of Elshender, the Black Dwarf, in Scott’s novel so called. SeeThe Life and Anecdotes of the Black Dwarf, or David Ritchie, commonly called Bowed Davie, by William Chambers, Edinburgh, 1820.
207. Note.Sir John Suckling, 1609–42. The two lines quoted are part ofThe Session of the Poets(20).
So Mr. Gifford dedicated these verses to Mr. Hoppner.Hoppner became R.A. in 1795, and Gifford dedicated the Second Edition of hisBaviad and Mæviadto him in 1797.
208.Quite chop-fallen.Hamlet,V.1.
Such a poor[bare]forked animal.King Lear,III.4.
They did it for his good.See No.XXXVII.of the Quarterly Review, April 1818, published in September.
209.These are the doctrines, etc.
‘These are the volumes that enrich the shops,These pass with admiration through the world,And bring their author an immortal name.’Roscommon,Horace’s Art of Poetry, 385–7.
‘These are the volumes that enrich the shops,These pass with admiration through the world,And bring their author an immortal name.’Roscommon,Horace’s Art of Poetry, 385–7.
‘These are the volumes that enrich the shops,These pass with admiration through the world,And bring their author an immortal name.’Roscommon,Horace’s Art of Poetry, 385–7.
‘These are the volumes that enrich the shops,
These pass with admiration through the world,
And bring their author an immortal name.’
Roscommon,Horace’s Art of Poetry, 385–7.
Embalms and spices.Timon of Athens,IV.3.
The spital and the lazar-house.‘The spital-house and ulcerous sores would cast the gorge at.’Timon of Athens,IV.3.
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Causa latet, res ipsa [vis est] notissima.Ovid.Met.IV.287.
210.Familiarity of regard.‘Quenching my familiar smile with an austere regard of control.’Twelfth Night,II.5.
Nice conduct.
‘Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain,And the nice conduct of a clouded cane.’Pope,The Rape of the Lock,IV.122.
‘Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain,And the nice conduct of a clouded cane.’Pope,The Rape of the Lock,IV.122.
‘Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain,And the nice conduct of a clouded cane.’Pope,The Rape of the Lock,IV.122.
‘Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain,
And the nice conduct of a clouded cane.’
Pope,The Rape of the Lock,IV.122.
‘The Clandestine Marriage.’ By Colman the Elder and Garrick (1766). This comedy is about to be revived at the Haymarket Theatre (March 17, 1903).
Wound up for the day.The Clandestine Marriage, ActII.Scene 1.
Sir Joseph Banks.The celebrated naturalist (1743–1820). He accompanied Cook in his first circumnavigation of the world.
211.Sir Charles B—nb—ry.See vol.VI.Mr. Northcote’s Conversations, note to p. 454.
Lady Sarah L—nn—x.Ibid.
How tall his person is.Hudibras, Part I. Canto iii., 83–4.
The old one-eyed Duke of Queensberry.William Douglas, 3rd Earl of March and 4th Duke of Queensberry (1724–1810).
The late Admiral Byron.The Hon. John Byron, the poet’s grandfather (1723–1768).
N——.Northcote.
Subdued to the very quality.Othello,I.3.
212.Dress makes the man.‘Worth makes the man,’ etc. Pope’sEssay on Man, Ep.IV.203.
Wycherley.William Wycherley (1640–1715). He was a man of fashion as well as a writer of comedies.
Lord Hinchinbroke.Sir Edward Mont- (or Mount-) agu, first Viscount Hinchinbroke and first Earl of Sandwich (1625–1672).
Note.The Duchess of Cleveland.‘Her graceless grace’ of the Court of CharlesII.
213.Alcibiades threw away a flute.See Plutarch’sLife of Alcibiades.
213.Ferdinand in the Tempest.ActIII.1.
214.Sergeant Atkinson.In Fielding’sAmelia, BookV.chap. 2.
Lord C——.Castlereagh.
Hatching vain empires.Paradise Lost,II.378.
Voluminous and vast.Paradise Lost,II.652.
215.Marquis Wellesley.Richard Cowley, Marquis Wellesley (1760–1842). Governor-General of India. He was made a Knight of the Garter and Foreign Minister on his return from Madrid whither he went as Ambassador in 1809.
Stores of ladies.Milton’sL’Allegro, 120.
Lord Erskine.Thomas Erskine (1750–1823), Advocate and Lord Chancellor.
Lord Stanhope.Charles, Earl Stanhope (1753–1816). He was a strenuous supporter of republican ideals and a man of many inventions.
The Orson of debate.The bear-suckled hero of the fifteenth century romance,Valentine and Orson, otherwise theWild Man of France.
A Satyr that comes staring from the woods.Earl of Roscommon, translation of Horace’sArs Poetica, 281–2. Cf.Ars Poetica, 244,et seq.
Lord Eldon.Seeante, note to p. 158.
216.Gave him goodœillades.Seeante, note to p. 183.
Foote’s Farce of Taste.1752.
218.All tranquillity and smiles.Cowper,The Task,IV.49.
219.Of mimic statesmen.Pope,Moral Essays, iii. 309–10.
God Almighty’s gentleman.Dryden’sAbsolom and Achitophel, PartI.645.
G—— D——.George Dyer (1755–1841), miscellaneous writer. See Lamb’sAmicus Redivivus, Elia, ed. Ainger, p. 281.
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220.Lady Morgan.(1783?–1859) A writer of Irish stories and of other miscellaneous work in the early years of the nineteenth century. Before her marriage in 1811 her works bore her maiden name, Sydney Owenson. Her story,The Wild Irish Girl, a national tale, published in 1806, passed through seven editions in two years.
Anastasius.Thomas Hope’s (1770–1831) Eastern romance published 1819, and warmly praised by theEdinburgh Review.
Delphine.Madame de Staël’s novel was published in 1802.
In their newest gloss.Macbeth,I.7.
Andrew Millar.Thomson’s and Fielding’s publisher (1707–1768). ‘I respect Millar, sir,’ said Dr. Johnson; ‘he has raised the price of literature’ (Boswell’sJohnson, ed. G. B. Hill,I.287). He was succeeded by his partner, Thomas Cadell the elder.
Thurloe’s State Papers.A Collection of State Papers(seven vols. folio, 1742) by John Thurloe (1616–1668). He was Secretary of State during the Protectorate.
Sir William Temple’s Essays.Published asMiscellaneain 1680 and 1692. He was the first writer, says Dr. Johnson, who gave cadence to English prose.
221.For thoughts and for remembrance.Hamlet,IV.5.
Bruscambille.Sterne’sTristram Shandy, BookIII.chap. 35.
The Memoirs of Lady Vane.InPeregrine Pickle.
The adventures at the masquerade.Tom Jones, Book xiii. chap. 7.
221.The disputes between Thwackum and Square.Ibid.Book iii. chap. 3.
The escape of Molly Seagrim.Ibid.Book iv. chap. 8.
The incident of Sophia and her muff.Ibid.Book v. chap. 4.
Her Aunt’s lecture.Ibid.Book vii. chap. 3.
222.The puppets dallying.Hamlet,III.2.
Ignorance was bliss.GrayOn a Distant Prospect of Eton College, 10.
The Minerva press.A publishing house in Leadenhall Street, which issued, in the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries, popular highly-coloured romances.
Cooke’s pocket-edition.See vols.I.-IV.of Cooke’sSelect Edition of British Novels(1792). Mr. W. C. Hazlitt says Hazlitt became acquainted with this book through his father being an original subscriber to the series.
Mrs. Radcliffe’s Romance of the Forest.Ann Radcliffe’s (1764–1823) book was published in 1791.
Sweet in the mouth.Revelation, x. 9.
Gay creatures.Comus, 299.
223.Tom Jones discovers Square behind the blanket.BookV.chap. 5.
Parson Adams ... Mrs. Slip-Slop.BookIV.chap. 14.
Chubb’s Tracts.Thomas Chubb’s (1679–1747)Tracts and Posthumous Workswere published in six vols. 8vo., 1754. He was a deist.
Fate, free-will, etc.Paradise Lost,II.560.
‘In wandering mazes lost.’
‘In wandering mazes lost.’
‘In wandering mazes lost.’
‘In wandering mazes lost.’
224. Note.A friend, who had some lottery puffs.Charles Lamb. See vol.VI.Table Talk, p. 291.
Would I had never seen Wittenberg.Dr. Faustus, Scene 19.
Hartley, Hume, Berkeley.David Hartley (1705–1757) whoseObservations on Manwere published in 1749; David Hume (1711–1776); George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne (1685–1753).
Locke’s Essay on the Human Understanding.1690.
Hobbes.Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) of theLeviathan(1651).
The Social Contract.Published 1762.
I have spoken elsewhere.See vol.I.The Round Table, ‘On the Character of Rousseau.’
Scattered like stray gifts.Wordsworth,Stray Pleasures.
The Emilius.Published 1762.
Sir Fopling Flutter.In Sir George Etherege’s comedyThe Man of Mode(1676).
225.Leurre de dupe!An expression of Rousseau’s,Confessions, Liv.IV.
A load to sink a navy.King Henry VIII.,III.2.
Marcian Colonna is a dainty book.Lamb’sSonnet to the author of poems published under the name of Barry Cornwall.
Mr. Keats’s Eve of Saint Agnes.Published 1820.
Come like shadows.Macbeth,IV.i.
Tiger-moth’s wings.Keats,Eve of Saint Agnes.
Blushes ... with blood of queens and kings.Ibid.
Words, words, words.Hamlet,II.2.
The great preacher in the Caledonian Chapel.Irving. Seeante, p. 129.
226.As the hart that panteth for the water-springs[brooks].Psalmxlii. 1.
Goëthe’s Sorrows of Werter.Finished in 1774. Cf. vol.V.Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth, p. 362.
Schiller’s Robbers.1781. SeeIbid.
Giving my stock[sum]of more.As You Like It,II.1.
Valentine Tattle or Miss Prue.Characters in Congreve’sLove for Love(1695). Valentine was Betterton’s great part, and F. Reynolds declaredthat the love scene between Jack Bannister as Tattle and Mrs. Jordan as Miss Prue was ‘probably never surpassed in rich natural comedy.’
226.Know my cue.
‘Were it my cue to fight, I should have known itWithout a prompter.’Othello,I.2.
‘Were it my cue to fight, I should have known itWithout a prompter.’Othello,I.2.
‘Were it my cue to fight, I should have known itWithout a prompter.’Othello,I.2.
‘Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it
Without a prompter.’
Othello,I.2.
Intus et in cute.Seeante, note to p. 24.
The celebrated Sir Humphrey Davy.Sir Humphry Davy (1778–1829), natural philosopher.
227.The divine Clementina.In Richardson’sSir Charles Grandison(1753).
With every trick and line.‘line and trick.’All’s Well that Ends Well,I.1.
Graven[draw ...]in my heart’s table.Ibid.
Mackenzie.Henry Mackenzie’s (1745–1831)Julia de Roubignéwas published in 1777, six years after theMan of Feeling.
Miss ——.Probably the lady ofLiber Amoris.
That ligament, fine as it was.Tristram Shandy, BookVI.chap. 10 (The Story of Le Fever).
His story of the Hawk.Boccaccio’sDecameron, 5th day, 9th story. See vol.V.Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth, note to p. 347.
Farquhar ... Recruiting Officer.1706.
At one proud[fell]swoop.Macbeth,IV.3.
Embalmed with odours.Paradise Lost,II.843.
His form had not yet lost.Ibid.I.591.
228.Falls flat upon the grunsel edge.Ibid.I.460.
He, like an eagle.Coriolanus,V.6.
An Essay on Marriage.No such essay by Wordsworth is at present known to exist. It would seem either that ‘Marriage’ is a misprint for some other word, or that Hazlitt was mistaken in the subject of the essay referred to by Coleridge. Hazlitt is probably recalling a conversation with Coleridge in Shropshire at the beginning of 1798 (cf. ‘My First Acquaintance with Poets’), at which timeA Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff(1793) was the only notable prose work which Wordsworth had published.
Note.Is this the present Earl?James Maitland, eighth Earl of Lauderdale (1759–1839), succeeded his father in August 1789.
229.Worthy of all acceptation.1 Timothy, i. 15.
Clarendon’s History of the Grand Rebellion.1704–7.
Hollingshed.Ralph Holinshed’sChronicles of Englande, Scotlande, and Irelande, 1577, and later issues.
Stowe.John Stow’s (1525?–1605)Englysh Chronicles, 1561, and later issues, andA Survay of London, 1598, and later issues.
Fuller’s Worthies.Thomas Fuller’s (1608–1661)The History of the Worthies of England, 1662.
‘A Wife for a Month.’ 1623.
‘Thierry and Theodoret.’ 1621.
Guicciardini.Francesco Guicciardini (1483–1540), author of a History of Italy from 1494 to 1532.
The Loves of Persiles and Sigismunda.Cervantes’ last work, the dedication of which was written four days before his death. A translation from the French was printed in London in 1619, and from the Spanish in 1854.
Galatea.Cervantes’ first work, a pastoral romance, printed at Alcala in 1585.
Another Yarrow.Wordsworth’sYarrow Unvisited.
ESSAY XXI. ON PERSONAL CHARACTER
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As the flesh and fortune shall serve.Measure for Measure,II.1.
And feels the ruling passion.Pope’sMoral Essays, Ep.I.262.
Mr. Nicholson.William Nicholson (1753–1815). He is often referred to in Hazlitt’sLife of Holcroft. See vol.II.p. 91, etc.
Hot, cold, moist, and dry.Seeante, note to p. 169.
It is not in our stars.Julius Cæsar,I.2. ‘That we are underlings.’
231.To beguile the time.Macbeth,I.5.
The child’s the father of the man.Wordsworth’s ‘My heart leaps up.’
232.Fairfax and the starry Vere.Marvell’s ‘Appleton House.’
He saw the Chief-Justice Jeffries.SeeEvelyn’s Diary(ed. Bray, 1859), vol.II., p. 199.
233.An old hair-brained uncle.Loftus, brother of Mrs. Hazlitt, wife of the Rev. W. Hazlitt.
Mark or likelihood.1 King Henry IV.,III.2.
Instinct, Hal, instinct.A misquotation from1 King Henry IV.,II.4.
Beneath the hills.Wordsworth’sExcursion, BookVI.[‘Amid the groves, under the shadowy hills.’]
234.Like that ensanguined[sanguine]flower.Lycidas, 106.
As the flies of a summer.Cf. Burke,Reflections on the Revolution in France(Select Works, Ed. Payne,II.112).
Most women have no character[characters]. Pope’sMoral Essay, Ep.II.2.
Mary Wolstonecraft.Seeante, note to p. 41.
Not to speak it profanely.Hamlet,III.2.
235.Fideliter didicisse.Ovid,Ex Ponto Epist., Lib.II.Ep. 9, 47.
237.Fiery quality.King Lear,II.4.
The shot of accident.Othello,IV.1.
Quip, or crank.Milton’sL’Allegro, 27.
238.Have his nothings monstered.Coriolanus,II.2.
Teres et rotundus.‘Fortis, et in se ipso totus, teres atque rotundus.’ Horace,Sat.II.7, 86.
A friendly man will show himself friendly.Proverbs, xviii. 24. ‘A man that hath friends must show,’ etc.
Richardson.Jonathan Richardson (c. 1665–1745), author and portrait-painter, whose works on painting fired the early enthusiasm of Sir Joshua Reynolds.
239. ‘The Honey-Moon.’ Tobin’s comedy, 1805.
240.Can the Ethiopian change his skin?Jeremiah, xiii. 23.
Villainous low.The Tempest,IV.1.
Panopticon.Seeante, note to p. 129.
241.The author of the year 2500.Louis Sébastien Mercier (1740–1814). See Vol.II.The Life of Thomas Holcroft, p. 107 and note.
Servum pecus imitatorum.‘O imitatores, servum pecus,’ etc. Horace, Ep.I.19, 19.
ESSAY XXII. ON PEOPLE OF SENSE
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242.Cabbala.The oral law of the Jews.
The demure, grave-looking.‘The grave, demure, insidious, spring-nailed, velvet-pawed, green-eyed philosophers.’ Burke,A Letter to a Noble Lord(Works, Bohn,V.142).
243.Baxter.Richard Baxter, the Nonconformist Divine (1615–1691). See volVI.Mr. Northcote’s Conversations, p. 364.
244.Torn to tatters, to very rags.Hamlet,III.2.
The pillar’d firmament.Comus, 598.
Note.The Spanish Inquisition.See vol.III.Political Essays, note to p. 33, and vol.VI.Table Talk, note to p. 156.
246.Mr. Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound.Published in 1820. Shelley was drowned in 1822 (See footnote).
Gorgons and Hydras.Paradise Lost,II.628.
With eye severe.As You Like It,II.7.
When he banished the poets.The Republic, BookX.
Full of wise saws.As You Like It,II.7.
247.Chrestomathic School.See vol.IV.The Spirit of the Age, note to p. 190.
Princes’ palaces.‘Poor men’s cottages, princes’ palaces.’Merchant of Venice,I.2.
The tailors at Laputa.Gulliver’s Travels, A Voyage to Laputa, chapter 2.
249.What can we reason.Pope’sEssay on Man,I.18.
When[where]thieves break through.S. Matthew, vi. 19.
Dyot-street, Bloomsbury-square.See vol.VI.Table Talk, Note to p. 120.
An aerie of children.Hamlet,II.2.
A Panopticon.Seeante, note to p. 129.
So work the honey-bees.King Henry V.,I.2.
Shedding[casting]a dim, religious light.Il Penseroso, 160.
Their speech bewrayeth them.S. Matthew, xxvi. 73.
250.Mankind act from calculation.Bentham’sPrinciples of Morals and Legislation, chap. xiv. § 28. See vol.IV.The Spirit of the Age, p. 196 and note.
251.So runs[says]the bond.Merchant of Venice,IV.1.
The author of St. Leon.Godwin’sTale of the Sixteenth Centuryappeared in 1799.
The author of the Political Justice.Godwin.
Norma loquendi.Horace,De Arte Poet., 72.
252.Astolpho’s voyage.Orlando Furioso, BookXVIII.
Highest[brightest]Heaven of invention.King Henry V., Prologue.
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Auld Robin Gray.Believed at first to be a ‘relique.’ Lady Ann Barnard (1750–1825) acknowledged the authorship to Sir Walter Scott in 1823.
253.Lively, audible and full of vent.‘Waking, audible and full of vent.’Coriolanus,IV.5.
Amadis de Gaul.A prose romance of knightly adventures of Portuguese origin (Vasco de Lobeira, d. 1403).
The seven Champions of Christendom.By Richard Johnson (1573–1659?). Published 1596–97. It was one of the books of Thomas Holcroft’s boyhood.
254.The dark rearward.Cf. ‘In the dark backward and abysm of time.’The Tempest,I.2.
The wars of old Assaracus.Spenser,The Faerie Queene, II.IX.56.
Triple bob-majors.A term in church-bell ringing.
Chaos and old night.Paradise Lost,I.543.
Cimabue, Giotto, and Ghirlandaio.Giovanni Cimabue (1240–c. 1302), the first great artist of the Florentine School; Giotto di Bondone (c. 1266–1336), Cimabue’s pupil, one of the greatest of the early Italian painters; and Domenico Curradi, nicknamed Il Ghirlandajo (the garland-maker) (1449–1494).
255.The Chronicle of Brute.Spenser’sFaerie Queene, Book II. CantoX.
The Ghost of one of the old kings of Ormus.Fulke Greville’sAlaham.
The Chiron of Achilles.Iliad,XVI.143, andXIX.390.
The priest in Homer.Iliad,I.8,et seq.
Why proffer’st thou light.Troilus and Criseyde, BookIII.1461–2.
The Travels of Anacharsis.The Scythian who travelled far and wide in quest of knowledge, in the times of Solon.
Coryate’s Crudities.Hastily gobled up in Five Moneths Travells in France, etc.(1611), by Thomas Coryate (? 1577–1617).
256.When we become men.1 Corinthians, xiii. 11.
The first time of my seeing Mrs. Siddons act.See vol.I.The Round Table, note to p. 156;Characters of Shakespear’s Plays, p. 189 and note; and Hazlitt’sDramatic Essays.
257.Mr. Burke’s Refections.These were published in 1790, not 1791.
Lord John Russell’s Letter.SeeThe Times, August 5, 1820. It was an appeal to Wilberforce to use his great influence in averting the crisis caused by the appearance of the Queen.
260.Grim-visaged, comfortless despair.Gray’sOde on a Distant Prospect of Eton College. See also vol.VI.Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth, note to p. 296.
261.The glory hereafter to be revealed.Romans, viii. 18.
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262. ‘Some minds,’etc.Bacon,The Advancement of Learning, BookII., xxii. 4.
263.F——.Mr. W. C. Hazlitt states this was George Fletcher, who, with his brother Joseph, came up from Nottingham about 1826, and became a contributor to periodical literature.
Wart his caliver.2 King Henry IV.,III.2.
Hear him but reason in divinity.King Henry V.,I.1. [‘Is still’]
264.Moved the very stones of Rome.Julius Cæsar,III.2.
Fraught of aspic’s tongues.Othello,III.3.
Wielded at will the fierce democracy.Paradise Regained,IV.269.
Roared you in the ears of the groundlings.Cf. ‘to split the ears of the groundlings,’Hamlet,III.2; andMidsummer Night’s Dream,I.2.
264.Create a soul.Milton’sComus, 561.
265.Bottom! thou art translated!Midsummer Night’s Dream,III.1.
Windham.William Windham (1750–1810). Secretary of State for War under Pitt, and again after Pitt’s death.
Mr. Coleridge’s Conciones ad Populum.Two addresses against Pitt, 1795, republished inEssays on his Own Times.
Mr. Thelwal’s Tribune.The Tribune ... consisting chiefly of the political lectures of J. Thelwall, taken in shorthand by W. Ramsay, and revised by the lecturer, 3 vols. 1795–6. Thelwall (1764–1834) was a lecturer on elocution as well as a reformer.
The self-same words.Macbeth,I.3.
Those brave sublunary[translunary]things. Drayton,Elegy to Henry Reynolds, Esq.
Fire and air.Antony and Cleopatra,V.2; andKing Henry V.,III.7.
Sound and fury.Macbeth,V.5.
266.A Commonplace, etc.Cf. Burke,Reflections on the Revolution in France(Select Works, ed. Payne,II.103).
With good emphasis and discretion.Cf. ‘with good accent and good discretion,’Hamlet,II.2.
By most admired disorder.Macbeth,III.4.
Lay the flattering unction.Hamlet,III.4.
Hear a cat mew.