Now this is an instance, etc. Hazlitt elsewhere ascribes this observation to Lamb. See p. [83], n.
He’s speaking now. “Antony and Cleopatra,” i, 5, 24.
It is my birthday. Ibid., iii, 13, 185.
[P. 41.] nigh sphered in heaven. Collins’s “Ode on the Poetical Character.”
to make society. “Macbeth,” iii, 1, 42.
[P. 42.] with a little act. “Othello,” iii, 3, 328.
[P. 43.] while rage. “Troilus and Cressida,” i, 3, 52.
in their untroubled elements, etc. Cf. Wordsworth’s “Excursion,” VI, 763-766:
“That glorious star
In its untroubled element will shine
As now it shines, when we are laid in earth
And safe from all our sorrows.”
Satan’s address to the sun. “Paradise Lost,” IV, 31.