PICTURES AT OXFORD AND BLENHEIM
From the London Magazine, November 1823
The article ends as follows:—‘We now take leave of British Galleries of Art. There are one or two others that we had intended to visit; but they are at a great distance from us and from each other; and we are not quite sure that they would repay our inquiries. Besides, to say the truth, we have already pretty well exhausted our stock of criticism, both general and particular. The same names were continually occurring, and we began sometimes to be apprehensive that the same observations might be repeated over again. One thing we can say, that the going through our regular task has not lessened our respect for the great names here alluded to; and, if we shall have inspired, in the progress of it, any additional degree of curiosity respecting the art, or any greater love of it in our readers, we shall think our labour and our anxiety to do justice to the subject most amply rewarded.’
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[69]. With glistering spires. Paradise Lost, III. 550.
Hold high converse. Thomson, The Seasons: Winter, 431.
No mean city. Acts xxi. 39.
All eyes shall see me. Cf. Isaiah xlv. 22–23 and Romans xiv. 11.
[70]. Clappeth his wings, and straightway he is gone. Cf. Pope, Eloisa to Abelard, 74:
‘Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.’
Majestic, though in ruins. Paradise Lost, II. 300.
Giuseppe Ribera. Josef Ribera (1588–1656), of San Felipe, near Valencia, a pupil of Caravaggio and leader of the realist school of his time.
[71]. Lucid mirror. Cowper, The Task, I. 701.
And fast by hanging in a golden chain. Paradise Lost, II. 1051.
In form resembling a goose pie. Cf. ‘A thing resembling a goose-pie,’ Swift, Vanburgh’s House, l. 104.
The old Duchess of Marlborough. Sarah Churchill, née Jennings (1660–1744), wife of John, 1st Duke of Marlborough.
[72]. Leave stings. Cf. ‘Would leave a sting within a brother’s heart.’
Young, Love of Fame, Sat. II. 113.
[73]. Sure never were seen. Sheridan, The School for Scandal, Act II. Sc. 2. [Other horses are clowns.] See vol. I. The Round Table, p. 150.
Mr. T. Moore’s ‘Loves of the Angels.’ Published Jan. 1, 1823.
[75]. As if increase of appetite. Hamlet, Act I. Sc. 2.
We are ignorance itself. 1 King Henry IV., Act III. Sc. 1.
CRITICISM ON HOGARTH’S MARRIAGE A-LA-MODE
See vol. I. The Round Table, pp. 25 et seq., and notes thereto.
NOTES OF A JOURNEY THROUGH FRANCE
AND ITALY
The circumstances which led to and succeeded the tour in France and Italy described in the following letters will be found detailed in the Memoirs of William Hazlitt, pp. 107 et seq. The journey began in August 1824, shortly after Hazlitt married Mrs. Bridgewater; and it ended in October 1825, by the return home alone of Hazlitt and his son.