APHORISMS ON MAN
Now republished for the first time. In The Monthly Magazine they appeared as follows: I.–XI. October 1830; XII.–XXXVI. November 1830; XXXVII.–XLVII. December 1830; XLVIII.–LV. April 1831; LVI.–LXVI. May 1831; LXVII.–LXX. June 1831. They are described as ‘by the late William Hazlitt.’
PAGE [210]. Monmouth-street. In St. Giles’s, now partly occupied by Shaftesbury Avenue. Allusions to its old-clothes shops are very frequent in eighteenth-century literature. [211]. ‘In the deep bosom,’ etc. Richard III., Act I. Sc. 1. ‘At one fell swoop.’ Macbeth, Act IV. Sc. 3. [214]. O’Connell. Hazlitt no doubt refers to the proceedings of O’Connell after his election for Co. Clare in 1828. [215]. ‘The soft collar,’ etc. Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (Select Works, ed. Payne, II. 90). ‘The iron rod,’ etc. Cf.
‘When the scourge inexorably, and the torturing hour,
Calls us to penance.’ Paradise Lost, II. 90–2.