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PAGE [171]. It is observed by Mr. Pope. Ed. Elwin and Courthope, vol. X. pp. 534–535. A gentleman of the name of Mason. Neither George Mason (1735–1806), author of An Essay on Design in Gardening, 1768, nor John Monck Mason (1726–1809), Shakespearian commentator, is the author of the work alluded to by Hazlitt, but Thomas Whately (d. 1772) whose Remarks on some of the Characters of Shakespere was published after Thomas Whately’s death by his brother, the Rev. Jos. Whately, in 1785, as ‘by the author of Observations on Modern Gardening’ [1770]; a second edition was published in 1808 with the author’s name on the title-page, and a third in 1839, edited by Archbishop Whately, Thomas Whately’s nephew. Richardson’s Essays. Essays on Shakespeare’s Dramatic Characters. 1774–1812. By William Richardson (1743–1814). Schlegel’s Lectures on the Drama. A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature. By A. W. von Schlegel. Delivered at Vienna in 1808. English translation, by John Black, in 1815. The quotation which follows will be found in Bohn’s one vol. edition, 1846, pp. 363–371, and the further references given in these notes are to the same edition. [174]. ‘to do a great right.’ Mer. Ven. IV. 1. ‘alone is high fantastical.’ Twelfth Night, I. 1. [175]. Dr. Johnson’s Preface to his Edition of Shakespear. 1765. ‘swelling figures.’ Dr. Johnson’s Preface. See Malone’s Shakespeare, 1821, vol. i. p. 75. [176]. Dover cliff in Lear, Act IV. 6. flowers in The Winter’s Tale, Act IV. 4. Congreve’s description of a ruin in the Mourning Bride, Act II. 1. [177]. the sleepy eye of love. Cf. ‘The sleepy eye that spoke the melting soul.’ Pope, Imit. 1st Epis. 2nd. Bk. Horace, l. 150. In his tragic scenes. Dr. Johnson’s Preface, p. 71. His declamations, etc. Ibid., p. 75. But the admirers, etc. Ibid., p. 75. [178]. in another work, The Round Table. See pp. 61–64.