[484]. This favourite word of his has been adopted by all competent critics as best describing his own manner.
[485]. Pp. 19, 20.
[486]. The last page of The English Poets.
[487]. It is curious that the critic’s blunder had been anticipated, though not excused, by the author’s. Richardson of course meant to make Lovelace what Hazlitt sees in him: only he failed.
[488]. In the paper on Sir Philip’s Sonnets, noted above.
[489]. Lect. vi., p. 201 sq.
[490]. But not as unique as odd.
[491]. P. 181.
[492]. Pp. 115, 126. The elaborate characters of Bacon, &c., in this course should be compared with those of Pope, and others earlier.
[493]. P. 64, ed. cit.