THE LETTER-BELL
Reprinted with considerable omissions in Sketches and Essays.
[235] ‘One entire,’ etc. Othello, Act V. Sc. 2 Blue hills. Cf. vol. VI. (Table-Talk), p. 256. [236]. ‘I should notice,’ etc. A long passage from this point to ‘accumulate to a tolerable sum’ (p. 237) was omitted from Sketches and Essays. From —— to ——. Sketches and Essays reads ‘From Wem to Shrewsbury.’ Cf. My First Acquaintance with Poets, post, p. 260. ‘And by the vision splendid,’ etc. Cf. Wordsworth’s Ode, Intimations of Immortality, 73–74. ‘What though the radiance,’ etc. Ibid. 179–82. ‘Like morn,’ etc. Cf. Paradise Lost, v. 310–11. And may he not yet greet the yellow light, etc. Cf. post, p. 271. ‘And from his neck so free,’ etc. The Ancient Mariner, 289–91. [238]. Vangoyen. Jan Van Goyen (1596–1666), one of whose landscapes, it would seem, Hazlitt had copied. ‘The slow canal,’ etc. Goldsmith, The Traveller, 293–4. ‘While with an eye,’ etc. Wordsworth, Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey, 47–49. ‘The secrets,’ etc. Cf. Hamlet, Act I. Sc. 5. ‘Entire affection,’ etc. Cf. The Faerie Queene, I. viii. 40. ‘His shame,’ etc. Cf. Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, 412. ‘Made good digestion,’ etc. Cf. Macbeth, Act III. Sc. 4. [239]. An ingenious friend and arch-critic. ? Jeffrey. ‘More germain [germane],’ etc. Hamlet, Act V. Sc. 2. [240]. ‘Hark!’ etc. Cowper, The Task, IV. 1, et seq. Lord Byron denies, etc. See vol. VI. (Table-Talk), p. 210 and note, and vol. XI. (Fugitive Writings), p. 492.