FOOTMEN
Republished in Sketches and Essays.
PAGE [131]. Sewell and Cross’s. Linen-drapers and silk-mercers, 44 and 45 Old Compton Street, Soho. The Bazaar. Established in 1815. ‘The Corinthian capitals,’ etc. Cf. Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France (Select Works, ed. Payne, II. 164). [132]. As I look down Curzon Street. The essay would seem to have been written at 40 Half-Moon Street, where Hazlitt lodged from 1827 to 1829. [133]. ‘Brothers of the groves.’ Cf. vol. VIII. note to p. 467. Mr. N——. Sketches and Essays prints ‘Northcote.’ ‘High Life Below Stairs.’ By James Townley (1714–1788), produced in 1759. Mr. C——.? Coleridge. Cassock. Sketches and Essays prints hassock. The fate of the footman, etc. See Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Epistle from Arthur Grey, the Footman, to Mrs. Murray. [134]. ‘Vine-covered hills,’ etc. From lines ‘Written in 1788’ by William Roscoe and parodied in The Anti-Jacobin. ‘As pigeons pick up peas.’ Cf. Love’s Labour’s Lost, V. 2. [135]. ‘No more—where ignorance,’ etc. Gray, On a Distant Prospect of Eton College. M. de Bausset. Louis François Joseph, Baron de Bausset (b. 1770), author of Mémoires anecdotiques sur l’intérieur du palais (1827–8). [136]. Wear green spectacles. These three words, which seem to have a personal application, were omitted in Sketches and Essays. Cf. post, p. 217.