CHAPTER XXVII
See ante, note to p. [288]. From ‘Basle’ on p. [298] to the end is the article for November 16, headed ‘Concluded.’
296. In shape and station [gesture] proudly eminent. Paradise Lost, I. 590.
Torrents of delight. La Nouvelle Héloïse, Quatrième Partie, Lettre VI.
[297]. Reveries of a Solitary Walker. Written after October 1776.
[299]. Cologne ... Rubens. Rubens was born at Siegen in Westphalia. His parents came to Cologne when he was a year old.
Striking fat its thick rotundity. King Lear, Act III. Sc. 2.
[301]. Paul Potter. See ante, p. [63] and note.
[302]. With eyes of youth. Merry Wives of Windsor, Act III. Sc. 2.
[303]. An English Minister handing the keys. Perhaps Hazlitt refers to John Fane, eleventh Earl of Westmorland (1784–1859), known as Lord Burghersh until 1841, who signed the Convention of Caza Lanza by which Naples was restored to the Bourbons. He was sent on a mission to Naples, 1825, to congratulate Francis I. on succeeding his father to the throne of the Two Sicilies, the Constitution of which country had been abrogated by Ferdinand I. in 1821, and a reign of despotism substituted for it.