THE SPIRIT OF CONTROVERSY
Now republished for the first time.
[381]. ‘Envy,’ etc. Cf. ‘From envy, hatred, and malice, and all uncharitableness.’ The Litany. [383]. ‘Root of the matter.’ Job xix. 28. ‘Their hearts,’ etc. Cf. S. Luke xxiv. 32. ‘A coil and pudder.’ See ante, notes to pp. 309 and 335. Mr. Taylor’s discourses. Robert Taylor (1784–1844), the notorious deistical clergyman, who, early in 1828, had been sentenced to a year’s imprisonment for a blasphemous discourse. The Duke of Newcastle. The fourth Duke (1785–1851), a violent opponent of Catholic Emancipation passed by Wellington’s ministry in 1829. ‘Strange,’ etc. Byrom, On the Feuds between Handel and Bononcini. [384]. ‘Like a thick scarf,’ etc. See ante, note to p. 82. ‘Whose edge,’ etc. Cymbeline, Act III. Sc. 4. ‘Of whatsoe’er descent,’ etc. Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, I. 100–3.