ON THE SPIRIT OF MONARCHY
Republished in Literary Remains. The essay was published (? 1835) as a pamphlet (together with ‘The Moral Effects of Aristocracy,’ by Godwin).
PAGE [242]. ‘And by the vision,’ etc. See ante, note to p. 236. The madman in Hogarth. The Rake’s Progress, Plate VIII. ‘There goes,’ etc. Cf. ante, p. 218. We once heard, etc. In vol. VI. (Mr. Northcote’s Conversations), p. 387, this sentiment is attributed to a ‘Mr. R——.’ It is clear from the present passage that this person was not Mr. Railton, but William Roscoe (1753–1831), the well-known historian, and that therefore the reading of The London Weekly Review was correct. See note to vol. VI. p. 387. [243]. ‘That within,’ etc. Cf. Hamlet, Act I. Sc. 2. ‘To fear,’ etc. Othello, Act I. Sc. 2. [244]. ‘Peep through,’ etc. Macbeth, Act I. Sc. 5. ‘Great is Diana,’ etc. Acts xix. 28. ‘Your gods,’ etc. Cf. S. Matthew xiii. 13. In contempt of their worshippers. Cf. Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France (Select Works, ed. Payne, II. 17). Note. Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, I. 100–3. [245]. ‘Gods partial,’ etc. Pope, An Essay on Man, III. 257–8. ‘Any mark,’ etc. Cf. I Henry IV. Act III. Sc. 2. [246]. Note. See vol. III. (Political Essays), p. 298 and notes. [247]. ‘From the crown,’ etc. Cf. Isaiah i. 6. Virtue, says Montesquieu, etc. Esprit des Lois, III. 6. ‘Honour dishonourable.’ Paradise Lost, IV. 314–15. ‘Of outward shew,’ etc. Cf. Ibid. VIII. 538–9. [248]. ‘To tread,’ etc. Hamlet, Act I. Sc. 3. ‘Nice customs,’ etc. Henry V. Act V. Sc. 2. ‘In form and motion,’ etc. Cf. Hamlet, Act II. Sc. 2. ‘Vice is undone,’ etc. Pope, Epilogue to the Satires, I. 142–9. [249]. A Coronation-day. The coronation of George IV. had taken place on July 19, 1821. [250]. Prince Leopold. Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg (1790–1865), who had married the Princess Charlotte, and afterwards (1831) became King of the Belgians. Castlereagh ... unstained, etc. Castlereagh committed suicide on Aug. 12, 1822. ‘A present deity,’ etc. Dryden, Alexander’s Feast, 35–6. [251]. ‘Worth makes the man,’ etc. Pope, An Essay on Man, IV. 203–4. ‘The only amaranthine flower,’ etc. Cowper, The Task, III. 268–9. [252]. ‘A man may read,’ etc. Holy Dying, chap. i. § 2.