Fall blunted “from each indurated heart.” Goldsmith’s “Traveler,” 232.
and fit audience. Wordsworth quotes this line from “Paradise Lost,” VII, 31, in “The Recluse,” 776:
“‘Fit audience let me find though few!’
So prayed, more gaining than he asked, the Bard—
In holiest mood.”
[P. 198.] The Excursion. Hazlitt wrote a review of this poem for the Examiner which not only aroused Wordsworth’s resentment but led to one of his disagreements with Lamb. The review appears in the “Round Table.”
toujours perdrix, “always partridges,” alluding to a story of a French king, who, on being reproved by his confessor for faithlessness to his wife, punished the offender by causing him to be fed on nothing but his favorite dish, which was partridge. See Notes and Queries, Series IV, Vol. III, p. 336.
In his person. In 1803, while on a visit to the Lake Country, Hazlitt had painted a portrait of Wordsworth. “He has painted Wordsworth,” writes Southey, “but so dismally, though Wordsworth’s face is his idea of physiognomical perfection, that one of his friends, on seeing it, exclaimed, ‘At the gallows—deeply affected by his deserved fate—yet determined to die like a man;’ and if you saw the picture, you would admire the criticism.” “Life and Correspondence,” II, 238.
His manner of reading. See p. [295].
a man of no mark. 1 “Henry IV,” iii, 2, 45.
[P. 199.] He finds fault with Dryden’s description. Hazlitt adopted this criticism in his lecture “On Pope and Dryden.”
[P. 200.] Titian (c. 1477-1576), the great Venetian painter.