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[442]. ‘Hæ nugæ,’ etc. Cf. Horace, Ars Poetica, 451–2. [443]. ‘The priest,’ etc. The Beggar’s Opera, Act I. Sc. 1. ‘As infidels,’ etc. Hazlitt alludes to a note in the ‘Beauties of the Anti-Jacobin,’ denouncing Coleridge, Lamb, and Southey. See vol. X. (Contributions to the Edinburgh Review), p. 139. [444]. ‘Sound them,’ etc. Julius Cæsar, Act I. Sc. 2. An eminent character. Probably Stoddart, late editor of The Times. See post, p. 448. ‘Hath Britain all the sun,’ etc. Cymbeline, Act III. Sc. 4. [445]. ‘Brevity is the soul of wit.’ Hamlet, Act II. Sc. 2. ‘The unbought grace of life,’ etc. Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (Select Works, ed. Payne, II. 89). [446]. ‘Leave the will puzzled,’ etc. Ibid., II. 103. ‘Bring but a Scotsman,’ etc. Burns, The Author’s Earnest Cry and Prayer, etc. Postscript, St. 4.