THE ENGLISH NOVELISTS
From the sixth lecture on the “Comic Writers.” Most of the matter had appeared in the Edinburgh Review for February, 1815, as a review of Madame D’Arblay’s “Wanderer.” (See Works, X, 25-44.) In “A Farewell to Essay-Writing” (Works, XII, 327) Hazlitt harks back to his days with Charles and Mary Lamb: “I will not compare our hashed mutton with Amelia’s; but it put us in mind of it, and led to a discussion, sharply seasoned and well sustained, till midnight, the result of which appeared some years after in the Edinburgh Review.”
[P. 155.] Be mine to read. To Richard West, April, 1742.
Marivaux, Pierre (1688-1763), and Crebillon, Claude Prosper (1707-1777), French novelists.
something more divine. Cf. p. 254.
[P. 156.] Fielding ... says. “Joseph Andrews,” Bk. III, ch. 1.
description somewhere given. “Reflections on the French Revolution,” ed. Bohn, II, 351-352.
[P. 157.] Echard. John Eachard (1636-1697), author of “The Grounds and Occasions of the Contempt of the Clergy and Religion Enquired into.” (1670.)
worthy of all acceptation. 1 Timothy, i, 15.
the lecture. “Joseph Andrews,” Bk. IV, ch. 3.