Waterloo, Antoine (1609?-1676?), a French engraver, painter, and etcher.
Rembrandt, Harmans van Rijn (1606-1669.), Dutch painter, whose mastery of light and shade was the object of Hazlitt’s special admiration.
[P. 202.] He hates conchology, etc. See the lecture “On the Living Poets”: “He hates all science and all art; he hates chemistry, he hates conchology; he hates Voltaire; he hates Sir Isaac Newton; he hates wisdom; he hates wit; he hates metaphysics, which he says are unintelligible, and yet he would be thought to understand them; he hates prose; he hates all poetry but his own; he hates the dialogues in Shakespeare; he hates music, dancing, and painting; he hates Rubens, he hates Rembrandt; he hates Raphael, he hates Titian; he hates Vandyke; he hates the antique; he hates the Apollo Belvidere; he hates the Venus of Medicis.”
Where one for sense. Butler’s “Hudibras,” II, 29.
[P. 203.] take the good. Plautus’s “Rudens,” iv, 7.
MR. COLERIDGE
From the “Spirit of the Age.”
[P. 205.] and thank. Cf. “Comus,” 176: “In wanton dance they praise the bounteous Pan.”
a mind reflecting. See p. [35] and n.
dark rearward. Cf. “Tempest,” i, 2, 50: “In the dark backward and abysm of time.”