CHARACTER OF MR. CANNING
This essay was included in the Paris edition (1825) and subsequent editions of The Spirit of the Age. See vol. IV. p. 186.
[334]. ‘The child,’ etc. Wordsworth, ‘My heart leaps up,’ etc. ‘Like as the sun-burnt Indians,’ etc. The Faerie Queene, III. XII. 8. [336]. ‘Like the morn,’ etc. Paradise Lost, V. 310–311. ‘Scylla heard,’ etc. Cf. Comus, 257–259. ‘The nation’s Great Divan.’ Cf. ‘August divan of the British Senate.’ H. Walpole, Letters (1857), IV. 130. [337]. Reply to Sir John Coxe Hippesley. On March 11, 1813. Speeches, ed. Therry, III. 396. [338]. ‘The worse the better reason.’ Paradise Lost, II. 113–4. ‘That makes these odds all even.’ Measure for Measure, Act III. Sc. 1. ‘He aggravates,’ etc. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act I. Sc. 2. ‘Quite chopfallen.’ Cf. Hamlet, Act V. Sc. 1. [339]. ‘The inimitable satire of Cervantes.’ See Canning’s Plymouth speech, October 1823. [340]. ‘Pluck out the heart,’ etc. Hamlet, Act III. Sc. 2. ‘The deliverance of mankind.’ Cf. Southey, Carmen Triumphale. ‘Of his port,’ etc. Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, Prologue, 69. ‘Freezes his spirits up,’ etc. Cf. 2 Henry IV., Act I. Sc. 1. [341]. Described so well, etc. In his speech on receiving the freedom of Plymouth, October 1823. ‘The golden round,’ etc. Cf. Richard II., Act III. Sc. 2. ‘And to call evil good,’ etc. Isaiah v. 20. ‘Revered and ruptured Ogden.’ For this famous phrase, used during the debates on the Indemnity Bill, 1818, see Hansard, XXXVII. 1026, and Stapleton’s Political Life of Canning, I. 86. Rejected Addresses. By James and Horace Smith, published in 1812. ‘Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin.’ Republished (1801) from The Anti-Jacobin. [342]. ‘To turn what is serious,’ etc. Cf. ‘What should be great, you turn to farce.’ Prior, The Ladle, 139. Note. See The Three Trials of William Hone (1818, First Trial, pp. 38–9), where a verse of Jekyll’s parody is quoted from The Spirit of the Journals. Note. ‘A wit’s a feather,’ etc. Pope, An Essay on Man, IV. 247–8.