CHAPTER XVI
July 22. Numbered XVII
And when she spake. The Faerie Queene, II., II. 24.
[209]. Cloud-clapt. Cf. ‘Cloud-capp’d towers.’ The Tempest, Act IV. Sc. 1.
[211]. My friend L. H. Leigh Hunt.
The rival families of the Gerardeschi and the ——. The missing word should be Visconti.
Enriched. Burns, Tam o’ Shanter, 16.
[212]. Enchants the world. Thomson, The Seasons, Summer, 1347.
Lord Burghersh. John Fane, eleventh Earl of Westmorland (1784–1859) was appointed minister plenipotentiary to Florence in 1814.
[214]. Alien Bill. In consequence of the flight from France during the Revolution, Alien Bills were passed in 1792–1793 giving the crown power to banish foreigners.
Molière’s Tartuffe. For the ordinance of the Archbishop of Paris see MM. Despois and Mesnard’s edition of Molière, vol. IV. p. 322.
Fishy fume. Paradise Lost, IV. 168.
[215]. Paved with good intentions. An old saying: Hazlitt probably had in mind Dr. Johnson’s use of it. (See Boswell’s Johnson, ed. G. B. Hill, vol. II. p. 360.)
[216]. Omne tulit punctum. Horace, Ars Poet., 343.
[218]. Otiosa Æternitas. Milton’s Sylvæ, De Ideâ Platonicâ Quemadmodum Aristoteles Intellexit.
Redi. Francesco Redi (1626–1698), Italian physician, naturalist and poet. He helped in the compilation of the dictionary of the Academia Della Crusca. See Masson’s Life of Milton, 1881, vol. I. p. 786.