LADY MORGAN’S LIFE OF SALVATOR
This Life appeared in 1823. Sydney Owenson (1783?–1859), author of The Wild Irish Girl in (1806), and many other less known books, was the daughter of Robert Owenson, the actor, and in 1812 married Sir Thomas Charles Morgan, the physician and philosopher. Cf. The Spirit of the Age (vol. IV.), p. 308, and The Plain Speaker (vol. VII.), p. 220. This review was republished in Criticisms on Art (1843–4) and in Essays on the Fine Arts (1873).
PAGE [278]. The miracle in Virgil. Æneid, III. 37–40. [279]. ‘Housing with wild men,’ etc. Coleridge, Zapolya, Act II. Sc. 1. [280]. ‘Their mind,’ etc. Sir Edward Dyer’s poem, beginning ‘My mind to me a kingdom is.’ ‘In measureless content.’ Macbeth, Act II. Sc. 1. ‘Unjust tribunals,’ etc. Samson Agonistes, 695. [282]. ‘Pride, pomp,’ etc. Othello, Act III. Sc. 3. [283]. The celebrated Lanfranco. Giovanni Lanfranco (1581–1647), the painter. ‘Skins and films,’ etc. Cf. Hamlet, Act III. Sc. 4. [287]. ‘Another moon,’ etc. Paradise Lost, V. 311. [291]. ‘According to Lord Bacon,’ etc. Advancement of Learning, Bk. II. iv. p. 2. ‘Burke, in a like manner,’ etc. See A Letter to a Member of the National Assembly, 1791 (Works, Bohn, II. p. 535, et seq.) [292]. ‘Moralizes,’ etc. As You Like It, Act II. Sc. 1. Bernini. Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini (1598–1680), the sculptor. [296]. Passeri. Giovanni Battista Passeri (1610?–1679), author of Vite de’Pittori, Scultori, e Architetri, etc. (1772). Mrs. Radcliffe’s Italian. Ann Radcliffe’s The Italian, 1797. Thaddeus of Warsaw. By Jane Porter (1776–1850), published in 1803. [298]. ‘Like a wounded snake,’ etc. Pope, An Essay on Criticism (II.), 357. [300]. ‘Where universal Pan,’ etc. Paradise Lost, IV. 266–268. [301]. Massaniello. Tommaso Aniello—called Masaniello—(1623–1647), the fisherman leader of the Neapolitan revolt against the Spanish viceroy in 1647.