PULPIT ORATORY, ETC.
Now reprinted for the first time. See Mr. W. C. Hazlitt’s Memoirs, etc., I. xxvii. Cf. the essay on Edward Irving in The Spirit of the Age (vol. IV. pp. 222–231). After Hazlitt’s essay there follows a savage attack on Irving (? by T. J. Hogg), as to which the editor says: ‘The following has also lost its way to us. We take it in as a foundling, but without adopting all its sentiments.’
PAGE ‘Got the start,’ etc. Cf. Julius Cæsar, Act I. Sc. 2. ‘Kingly Kensington.’ Swift’s Ballad, Duke Upon Duke, St. 14. [276]. Lady Bluemount. Lady Beaumont presumably, the wife of Wordsworth’s friend, Sir George Howland Beaumont. Mr. Botherby.? William Sotheby (1757–1833), whose persistent attempts as a dramatic author may explain the nickname. Mr. Theodore Flash. Theodore Hook, no doubt, who afterwards denounced Irving as a humbug. See John Bull, July 20, 1823. Note. Mr. Dubois. Edward Dubois (1774–1850), wit and journalist. Note. ‘Rose,’ etc. Cf. Hamlet, Act III. Sc. 1. [277]. ‘His foot mercurial,’ etc. Cymbeline, Act IV. Sc. 2. ‘The iron,’ etc. The Psalter, Psalm CV. 18. ‘Come, let me clutch thee.’ Macbeth, Act II. Sc. 1. [280]. ‘Spins,’ etc. Cf. Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act V. Sc. 1. ‘Loop or peg,’ etc. Cf. Othello, Act III. Sc. 3. [281]. ‘Fire hot from Hell.’ Cf. Julius Cæsar, Act III. Sc. 1. [282]. The swimmer. See this passage quoted by Hazlitt in vol. V. (Lectures on the Age of Elizabeth), pp. 323–4. [283]. Mr. Croly. George Croly (1780–1860), a regular contributor to Blackwood’s Magazine, had published Paris in 1815 (1817). [284]. ‘Best virtue.’ Cf. All’s Well That Ends Well, Act IV. Sc. 3. ‘We pause for a reply.’ Cf. Julius Cæsar, Act III. Sc. 2. [285]. Daniel Wilson. Daniel Wilson (1778–1858), at this time incumbent of St. John’s Chapel, Bedford Row, Bloomsbury, afterwards Bishop of Calcutta. ‘Oh! for an eulogy,’ etc. Cf. ‘Oh, for a curse to kill with.’ Otway, Venice Preserved, Act II. Sc. 2.