THE SICK CHAMBER
First republished in the volume of Selections edited by Mr. Ireland, who states, apparently upon the evidence of dates and the nature of the subject, that this was the last essay which Hazlitt wrote. This cannot be certainly known, and it seems more likely that the essay on ‘Personal Politics’ (post, pp. 456–61) was written later. The essay on ‘Footmen’ appeared in a later number of the New Monthly. Hazlitt died on Sept. 18, 1830.
PAGE [125]. ‘The body of this death.’ Romans vii. 24. ‘Cooped and cabined in.’ Cf. Macbeth, Act III. Sc. 4. ‘Peep through the blanket,’ etc. Macbeth, Act I. Sc. 5. ‘A consummation,’ etc. Hamlet, Act III. Sc. 1. [126]. Hoc erat in votis. Horace, Satires, II. vi. 1. ‘Our very gorge,’ etc. Cf. Hamlet, Act V. Sc. 1. ‘Hermit poor,’ etc. These lines are quoted in Lamb’s John Woodvil, Act V. ‘Vows made in pain’ etc. Paradise Lost, IV. 97. ‘The Devil,’ etc. This old proverb is quoted by Rabelais, Liv. IV. Chap. 24. [127]. ‘Like life and death,’ etc. Cf. Lamb, John Woodvil, Act II. ‘Trouble deaf Heaven,’ etc. Cf. Shakespeare’s Sonnets, No. XXIX. ‘Moralise our complaints,’ etc. Cf. As You Like It, Act II. Sc. 1. ‘They have drugged,’ etc. Cf. Macbeth, Act II. Sc. 2. ‘Puzzling o’er the doubt.’ Cf. Cowper, The Needless Alarm, 77–78. [128]. ‘Like Samson,’ etc. Cowper, The Task, V. 737. ‘The worst of every evil,’ etc. Cf. Temistocle, Act III. Sc. 2. [129]. ‘A world,’ etc. Cf. Wordsworth, Personal Talk, l. 34. ‘A foregone conclusion.’ Othello, Act III. Sc. 3. [130]. ‘We see the children,’ etc. Cf. Wordsworth, Ode, Intimations of Immortality, 170–1. Paul Clifford. Bulwer’s Paul Clifford appeared in 1830. ‘Lively,’ etc. Coriolanus, Act IV. Sc. 5. ‘The true pathos,’ etc. Burns, Epistle to Dr. Blacklock.