[474]. This is good, but not so good: and elsewhere—though critical matter will be found in all Hunt’s collected books and in all his uncollected periodical work, from the Examiner, “whose very name is Hunt,” and the Indicator, and the Reflector, to the Tatler, and the London Journal—we shall never find him better and seldom so good.
[475]. P. 51, ed. cit.
[476]. It is curious what power that dead sorceress has had on almost all her poets.
[477]. P. 250, ed. cit.
[478]. Preference only, of course: the exceptions are numerous, but not enough to destroy the rule.
[479]. References will be made here throughout to the reprints of Hazlitt’s literary work in the Bohn Library, 7 vols. This is to The English Comic Writers, p. 33. The newer and completer edition of Messrs Waller & Glover had but begun when the text was written.
[480]. Ibid., p. 170 sq., and p. 176 sq.
[481]. He is, however, dangerously near requiring it with regard to Scott (see the end of the article on him in The Spirit of his Age), and whenever he speaks of the Duke of Wellington[Wellington].
[482]. English Poets, ed. cit., pp. 92-95.
[483]. Pp. 18-25.