[178] Critical Miscellanies, vol. iii., p. 9.
[189] ‘I will answer you by quoting what I have read somewhere or other, in Dionysius Halicarnassensis I think, that history is philosophy teaching by examples.’ See Lord Bolingbroke’s Second Letter on the Study and Use of History.
[204] The Works of Charles Lamb. Edited, with notes and introduction, by the Rev. Alfred Ainger. Three volumes. London: 1883-5.
[218] See Life of Emerson, by O. W. Holmes.
[221] The institution referred to was the Eucharist.
[244] Yet in his essay On Londoners and Country People we find Hazlitt writing: ‘London is the only place in which the child grows completely up into the man. I have known characters of this kind, which, in the way of childish ignorance and self-pleasing delusion, exceeded anything to be met with in Shakespeare or Ben Jonson, or the Old Comedy.’
[255] This passage was written before Mr. Browning’s ‘Parleyings’ had appeared. Christopher is now ‘a person of importance,’ and needs no apology.
[256] The Prelude, p. 55.