POPE, LORD BYRON, AND MR. BOWLES
For Byron’s Letters to Murray ‘On the Rev. Wm. L. Bowles’s Strictures on the Life and Writings of Pope’ and a full account of the controversy see Byron’s Letters and Journals (ed. Prothero), V. Appendix iii. Cf. a passage in Hazlitt’s essay ‘On the Aristocracy of Letters,’ vol. VI. (Table Talk), pp. 210, 223, and notes.
[487]. Jem Belcher. James Belcher (1781–1811), who defeated Andrew Gamble in 1800. In the Preface to his Tragedy. Marino Faliero. ‘A tale of bawdry.’ Hamlet, Act II. Sc. 2. [488]. ‘Our sweet voices.’ Coriolanus, Act II. Sc. 3. [489]. ‘Most small faults.’ Cf. King Lear, Act I. Sc. 4. ‘Ends of verse,’ etc. Butler, Hudibras, I. iii. 1011–2. [490]. ‘Sternhold and Hopkins had great qualms.’ The Earl of Rochester, On a Parish Clerk with a bad voice. [492]. ‘Full of wise saws,’ etc. As You Like It, Act II. Sc. 7. [494]. ‘So perfumed,’ etc. Antony and Cleopatra, Act II. Sc. 2. [495]. ‘Roaming the illimitable ocean wide.’ Cf. ‘Roaming the illimitable waters round.’ Wordsworth, The Female Vagrant, 175. ‘Ill at these numbers.’ Hamlet, Act II. Sc. 2. ‘Damnable iteration in him.’ 1 Henry IV., Act I. Sc. 2. ‘Keeps distance due.’ Paradise Lost, III. 578. [496]. ‘Luscious,’ etc. Othello, Act I. Sc. 3. The grand-daughters of Mr. Coutts. The two Misses Burdett, presumably the daughters of Sir Francis Burdett and therefore grand-daughters of Thomas Coutts the banker, were presented at court on May 3, 1821, but Hazlitt’s meaning is a little obscure. The Editor of the New Monthly Magazine. Campbell, the poet. ‘High arbiter,’ etc. Paradise Lost, II. 908–9. ‘All the art of art is flown.’ Cf. the note on ‘all the life of life was flown’ in vol. VI. (Table Talk), p. 24. [497]. ‘The stones and tower,’ etc. Cf. Peter Bell, 856 et seq.