ON CONSISTENCY OF OPINION
Published with some omissions in Winterslow (1850).
[508]. ‘Servetur ad imum,’ etc. Horace, Ars Poetica, 126–7. [509]. ‘It is the eye of childhood,’ etc. Macbeth, Act II. Sc. 2. ‘Where the treasure is,’ etc. S. Matthew vi. 21. ‘To be wise,’ etc. Cf. ‘Let it be virtuous to be obstinate.’ Coriolanus, V. 3. Mr. ——. Northcote, no doubt, who told Haydon that he was so delighted with the Catalogue that he ‘ordered a long candle and went to bed to read it in ecstasy.’ Life of Haydon (ed. T. Taylor), I. 376. [511]. ‘Sots,’ etc. Pope, An Essay on Man, IV. 215. ‘I had rather hear,’ etc. Cf. 1 Henry IV., Act III. Sc. 1. ‘Amaze the very faculties,’ etc. Hamlet, Act II. Sc. 2. [512]. Mr. Wordsworth has hardly, etc. This passage, down to ‘Constitutional Association-monger’ (p. 513) was omitted from Winterslow. ‘So small a drop,’ etc. Cymbeline, Act IV. Sc. 2. Applied for an injunction, etc. A hit at Southey. See vol. III. (Political Essays), pp. 192 et seq. and notes. One stroke of his prose-pen, etc. Hazlitt probably refers to Wordsworth’s Two Addresses to the Freeholders of Westmoreland, published in 1818. ‘The wreck of matter,’ etc. Addison, Cato, v. I. [514]. Contra audentior ito. Æneid, VI. 95. ‘Whose genius,’ etc. Cowper, The Task, The Garden, 255–6. ‘Like a worm,’ etc. Cf. ante, note to p. 506. ‘There’s sympathy.’ The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act II. Sc. 1. [515]. ‘Ancestral voices.’ Coleridge, Kubla Khan, 29.