ON THE FEELING OF IMMORTALITY IN YOUTH
Republished with many omissions and variations in Literary Remains and Winterslow.
PAGE [150]. ‘Life is a pure flame,’ etc. Sir T. Browne, Hydriotaphia, chap. V. My brother’s. John Hazlitt (1767–1837), the miniature-painter. See Mr. W. C. Hazlitt’s Four Generations of a Literary Family, I. 210–18. [151]. ‘The vast,’ etc. Cf. ‘The wide, the unbounded prospect, lies before me.’ Addison, Cato, Act V. Sc. 1. ‘Bear a charmed life.’ Macbeth, Act V. Sc. 8. ‘Bidding,’ etc. Collins’s Ode, The Passions, 32. ‘This sensible,’ etc. Measure for Measure, Act III. Sc. 1. [152]. ‘Wine of life,’ etc. Cf. Macbeth, Act II. Sc. 3. ‘As in a glass darkly.’ Cf. 1 Corinthians xiii. 12. ‘So am not I.’ Sterne, Tristram Shandy, vol. V. chap. vii. Note. The Art of War (1795) by Joseph Fawcett (d. 1804), an early friend of Hazlitt’s. See vol. VI. (Table-Talk), 224–5 and Mr. W. C. Hazlitt’s Memoirs, etc., I. 75–79. [153]. ‘The feast of reason,’ etc. Pope, Imitations of Horace, Sat. I. 128. ‘Brave sublunary things.’ Cf. ‘Those brave translunary things.’ Michael Drayton, To Henry Reynolds. ‘The stockdove,’ etc. Cf. Thomson, The Castle of Indolence, I. St. 4. Note. ‘Had it not been,’ etc. Works, II. 254. Note. She says of Richardson. See Works, II. 285 et seq. and 222. Note. Monstrum ingens biforme. Cf. Æneid, III. 658. Note. ‘His spirits,’ etc. Works, II. 283. [156]. ‘The purple light of love.’ Gray, The Progress of Poesy, 41. ‘The Raphael grace,’ etc. Cf. ‘Match Raphael’s grace with thy loved Guido’s air. ‘Pope, Moral Essays, VIII. 36. ‘Gain new vigour,’ etc. Cowper, Charity, 104. [157]. ‘Beguile,’ etc. Cf. ‘Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time.’ As You Like It, Act II. Sc. 7. [158]. ‘Robbers.’ Schiller’s play, produced in 1782. ‘From the Dungeon,’ etc. Coleridge, Sonnet, ‘To the Author of The Robbers.’ Don Carlos. Schiller’s play (1787).