ON DISAGREEABLE PEOPLE
Republished in Sketches and Essays.
[174]. ‘Discourse of reason,’ etc. Loosely quoted from Hamlet. Cf. Act I. Sc. 2 and Act IV. Sc. 4. ‘The whole,’ etc. Cf. S. Matthew ix. 12. ‘As when,’ etc. Thomson, The Castle of Indolence, St. 64. [177]. ‘Yea, into our heart of hearts.’ Cf. Hamlet, Act III. Sc. 2. ‘The volumes,’ etc. Roscommon, Horace’s Art of Poetry. ‘That dallies,’ etc. Cf. Twelfth Night, Act II. Sc. 4. [178]. ‘Wit at the helm,’ etc. Cf. ‘Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm.’ Gray, The Bard, 74. [179]. A butt, according to the Spectator, etc. See The Spectator, No. 47. [181]. ‘Hew you,’ etc. Cf. Julius Cæsar, Act II. Sc. 1. Tempora, etc. Cf. Æneid, IV. 293–4. ‘Not to admire,’ etc. Pope, Imitations of Horace, Epistles I. vi. 1–2. The Westminster School of Reform. Hazlitt refers to the writers, including Bentham and James Mill, associated with The Westminster Review, founded in 1824. [182]. ‘Milk of human kindness.’ Macbeth, Act I. Sc. 5.