Page 287, line 1. Hickman. This would be Tom Hickman, the pugilist. In Hazlitt's fine account of "The Fight," Hickman or the Gas-Man, "vapoured and swaggered too much, as if he wanted to grin and bully his adversary out of the fight." And again, "'This is the grave digger' (would Tom Hickman exclaim in the moments of intoxication from gin and success, showing his tremendous right hand); 'this will send many of them to their long homes; I haven't done with them yet.'" But he went under to Neale, of Bristol, on the great day that Hazlitt describes.
Page 287, line 2. Him of Clarissa. Mr. Hickman, in Richardson's novel Clarissa, the lover of Miss Bayes.
Page 287. II.—THAT ILL-GOTTEN GAIN NEVER PROSPERS.
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Page 287. III.—THAT A MAN MUST NOT LAUGH AT HIS OWN JEST.
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Page 288, line 12. In Mandeville. In Bernard Mandeville's Fable of the Bees, a favourite book of Lamb's. See Vol. I., note to "The Good Clerk."
Page 288. IV.—THAT SUCH A ONE SHOWS HIS BREEDING, ETC.
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Page 288. V.—THAT THE POOR COPY THE VICES OF THE RICH.