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[381]. Pie Voleuse. See ante, note to p. 304. ‘Born to converse,’ etc. Cf. Pope, Prologue to the Satires, 196. The Fall of Nineveh. By John Martin (1789–1854). The painting was being exhibited in Bond Street. [382]. Abridged Paradise Lost. Mrs. Siddons published The Story of our First Parents selected from Milton’s Paradise Lost for the use of young persons, 1822. A triumphant peroration, etc. Hazlitt no doubt refers to Scott’s Life of Napoleon, published in 1827. ‘The worst, the second fall of man.’ Cf. William Windham, Speeches, II. 47 (Nov. 4, 1801). [384]. ‘Barren spectators.’ Hamlet, Act III. Sc. 2. Mr. Stanfield’s landscape back-grounds. William Clarkson Stanfield (1793–1867). Veluti in speculum. Cf. ‘Inspicere tamquam in speculum in vitas omnium,’ etc. Terence, Adelphi, Act III. Sc. 3.