[464]. Ibid., ii. 105.
[465]. Even as the exquisite figure of Mrs Blake, sitting on the bedside, faces the sketches of gnashing fiends.
[466]. P. 138.
[467]. P. 278.
[468]. There may be people who do not know this, and those who know it already need not read it. A college cook (I think of Brasenose) was particularly famous for that most excellent dish the fondue, but would never tell his recipe. At last some Arthur Pendennis (of the other shop) got round him to this extent: “Why, sir,” said he, “you see I takes the eggs, and the butter, and the cheese, you know, and the other things; and then I just fondoos ’em.”
[469]. There is no complete ed. of Hunt, and there could not well be one. I shall refer here to the 7 vols. of Messrs. Smith & Elder’s cheap and uniform reprint of a good deal, and to the pretty American pocket issue of the Italian Poets.
[470]. At the beginning of the Essay on Restoration Drama.
[471]. Italian.
[472]. Of course it is not all unfavourable: Leigh Hunt is far too much of a critic and a lover of poetry for that. But he is constantly put off and put out by Dante’s “bigotry,” his “uncharitableness,” the “barbarous pedantries” of his age, and the like.
[473]. New ed., ut sup.: London, 1883.