DOCTRINE OF PHILOSOPHICAL NECESSITY
This paper, signed ‘W,’ is clearly Hazlitt’s. Cf. the Lecture on the same subject, ante, pp. 48–74. The essay is No. XXVII. of the Round Table series.
[277]. ‘For I had learnt,’ etc. Cf. Wordsworth, Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey, 95–102. [278]. ‘Threshold of Jove’s throne.’ Cf. ‘Before the starry threshold of Jove’s court,’ Comus, I. [279]. ‘Praise and blame,’ etc. Cf. ante, p. 56. [280]. ‘A good favour,’ etc. Loosely quoted from Much Ado About Nothing, Act III. Sc. 3. [282]. Marvell and his leg of mutton. Hazlitt refers to the story of Danby’s unsuccessful attempt to win over Marvell to the court. One version of the story is that in Danby’s presence Marvell summoned his servant and said to him, ‘Pray, what had I for dinner yesterday?’ ‘A shoulder of mutton.’ ‘And what do you allow me to-day?’ ‘The remainder hashed.’ Marvell then added to Danby, ‘And to-morrow, my lord, I shall have the sweet blade-bone broiled.’ ‘Allemagne,’ etc. De l’Allemagne, Preface. ‘But there is matter,’ etc. Wordsworth, Hart-Leap Well, 95–6.