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[120]. ‘Loop-holes of retreat.’ Cowper, The Task, IV. 88. [121]. ‘He is all ear and eye,’ etc. Cf. Comus, 560–2. ‘The fly,’ etc. The Beggar’s Opera, Act II. Sc. 2. ‘Oh! leave me,’ etc. Cf. Gray, The Vegtam’s Kivitha. My beloved corner. See Mr. W. C. Hazlitt’s Memoirs, etc., I. 205. ‘The arm-chair at an inn. ‘A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity.’ Johnson (Boswell’s Life, ed. G. B. Hill, II. 452, note 1). ‘Witching time of night.’ Hamlet, Act III. Sc. 2. ‘Like bees in spring-time,’ etc. Paradise Lost, I. 768–9. [122]. ‘A discipline of humanity.’ Bacon (Essays, ‘Of Marriage and Single Life’) applies the phrase to wife and children. Hazlitt himself applies it to books (vol. I. The Round Table, p. 123). ‘Retire, the world shut out,’ etc. Young, Night Thoughts, IX. ‘Still, small voice.’ 1 Kings xix. 12. Miss Ford. Hazlitt refers to Miss Forde as Cherry in The Beaux Stratagem (revived Covent Garden, Dec. 31, 1828). In Lectures on the Comic Writers (VIII. 88) he refers to the dialogue in Act III. Sc. 2 as a ‘love catechism.’ Mrs. Humby. Mrs. Humby (fl. 1817–1849) played Luise in Planché’s The Green-eyed Monster at the Haymarket, Aug. 18, 1828. Wilkinson played Krout. Mrs. Goodall’s Rosalind. Charlotte Goodall, after acting at Bath, made her first appearance in London (Drury Lane, Oct. 2, 1788) as Rosalind. Nothing is known of her after 1813, when she was divorced. [122]. ‘Blow, blow,’ etc. As You Like It, Act II. Sc. 7. ‘Strut and fret,’ etc. Macbeth, Act V. Sc. 5. [123]. ‘See o’er the stage,’ etc. Cf. Thomson, The Seasons, Winter, 646–8. ‘Takes his ease.’ Cf. 1 Henry IV., Act III. Sc. 3. [124]. ‘All that mighty heart,’ etc. Cf. Wordsworth’s Sonnet, Earth has not anything to shew more fair, etc. ‘Thy freedom,’ etc. Cf. ‘Thy beauty hath made me effeminate.’ Romeo and Juliet, Act III. Sc. 1. ‘Teddy the Tiler.’ A farce by G. H. B. Rodwell (1800–1852), produced at Covent Garden, Feb. 8, 1830. ‘Robert the Devil.’ A ‘Musical Romance’ by Raymond, produced at Covent Garden, Feb. 2, 1830. ‘What avails,’ etc. The Rev. Sneyd Davies, To the Honourable and Reverend F. C. (Dodsley, A Collection of Poems, VI. 138). ‘The frozen winter,’ etc. Hazlitt is quoting loosely from Paradise Lost, IV. 267–8. Cowley’s Gallery. The reference is to Cowley’s The Chronicle.