ON PERSONAL IDENTITY
Published with some omissions in Winterslow.
‘Ha! here be,’ etc. King Lear, Act III. Sc. 4. ‘If I were not Alexander,’ etc. The saying is given by Plutarch. Note. Zoffani. Johann Zoffany, or Zaufelly (1733–1810). Note. Reynolds’s Speculation. A comedy by Frederick Reynolds, produced in 1795. George III. was much amused by it. See Life of Reynolds, II. 208–210. [199]. ‘Wishing to be,’ etc. Cf. Shakespeare, Sonnet XXIX. ‘The rub,’ etc. Cf. Hamlet, Act III. Sc. 1. ‘Put off,’ etc. Ibid. [200]. ‘What more felicity,’ etc. Spenser, Muiopotmos, St. 27. [201]. ‘That something,’ etc. Cf. Pope, An Essay on Man, IV. 3–4. ‘Very choice Italian.’ Hamlet, Act III. Sc. 2. ‘Vows,’ etc. Cf. Paradise Lost, IV. 97. ‘The native hue,’ etc. Cf. Hamlet, Act III. Sc. 1. [202]. ‘Shut up,’ etc. Macbeth, Act II. Sc. 1. ‘I’d sooner,’ etc. Cf. Julius Cæsar, Act IV. Sc. 3. Sir Thomas Lethbridge. A sturdy Tory, member for Somersetshire. He is possibly the L—— referred to in vol. VI. (Table-Talk), p. 94. Though a staunch Protectionist, he voted for Reform and Catholic Emancipation. [203]. ‘Ethereal braid,’ etc. See vol. IV. (The Spirit of the Age), note to p. 216. Had I been a lord I should have married, etc. This sentence and the next were omitted in Winterslow. [204]. ‘Give me,’ etc. Cf. 3 Henry VI., Act I. Sc. 4. ‘Monarchise,’ etc. Richard II., Act III. Sc. 2. ‘Tenth transmitters,’ etc. Richard Savage, The Bastard. ‘In the catalogue,’ etc. Cf. Macbeth, Act III. Sc. 1. ‘Swinish multitude.’ Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (Select Works, ed. Payne, II. 93). [205]. ‘The fair,’ etc. Cf. As You Like It, Act III. Sc. 2. The person who bought Punch. Cf. post, p. 353. [206]. Why will Mr. Cobbett, etc. Cobbett had recently (1826) unsuccessfully contested Preston. The bird described by Chaucer. See Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Manciple’s Tale, 59 et seq., and The Squiere’s Tale, 603 et seq. You say there is a common language, etc. These words, down to ‘And he will laugh in your face,’ were omitted in Winterslow. [207]. ‘A certain tender bloom,’ etc. Cf. ‘A certain tender gloom o’erspread his face.’ Thomson, The Castle of Indolence, I. St. 57. [208]. ‘Stuff o’ the conscience.’ Othello, Act I. Sc. 2. ‘Laggard age.’ Collins, Ode, The Passions, 112. [209]. Like Benvenuto Cellini, etc. See Life of Benvenuto Cellini, Part II. lxxviii.