HAYDON’S CHRIST’S AGONY IN THE GARDEN
[483]. Matthews. Charles Mathews (1776–1835), the comedian, whose famous ‘At Homes’ Hazlitt refers to. ‘Sea, earth, and air.’ Cf. ‘And shot my being through earth, sea, and air.’ Coleridge, France, An Ode, 103. He bestrides his art, etc. Haydon was pleased with these words which he quoted in a letter to a friend extracted in Mr. W. C. Hazlitt’s Four Generations of a Literary Family (I. 234). Haydon wrongly refers to Hazlitt’s article as having appeared in The New Monthly Magazine. See also Haydon’s Life, etc. (ed. T. Taylor, I. 418), where, speaking of this picture, Haydon says ‘Except the Christ’s head and the St. John sleeping it was the worst picture ever escaped my pencil.’ ‘Ample room,’ etc. Gray, The Bard, 51. [484]. ‘A hand,’ etc. Donne, The Storm, 3–4. [485]. The celebrated Madonna, etc. See vol. IX. p. 67.