[P. 206.] That which was. “Antony and Cleopatra,” iv, 14, 9.
quick, forgetive. 2 “Henry IV,” iv, 3, 107.
what in him is weak. Cf. “Paradise Lost,” I, 22: “What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support.”
[P. 207.] and by the force. Cf. “Macbeth,” iii, 5, 28: “As by the strength of their illusion Shalt draw him on to his confusion.”
rich strond. “Faërie Queene,” III, iv, 18, 29, 34.
goes sounding. “Hazlitt seems to have had a hazy recollection of two passages in Chaucer’s Prologue. In his essay on ‘My First Acquaintance with Poets,’ he says, ‘the scholar in Chaucer is described as going “sounding on his way,”’ and in his Lectures on the English Poets he says, ‘the merchant, as described in Chaucer, went on his way “sounding always the increase of his winning.”’ The scholar is not described as ‘sounding on his way,’ but Chaucer says of him, ‘Souninge in moral vertu was his speche,’ while the merchant, though ‘souninge alway th’ encrees of his winning,’ is not described as going on his way. Wordsworth has a line (‘Excursion,’ Book III), ‘Went sounding on a dim and perilous way,’ but it seems clear that Hazlitt thought he was quoting Chaucer.” Waller-Glover, IV, 412.
[P. 208.] his own nothings. “Coriolanus,” ii, 2, 81.
letting contemplation. Cf. Dyer’s “Grongar Hill,” 26: “till contemplation have its fill.”
Sailing with supreme dominion. Gray’s “Progress of Poesy.”
He lisped. Pope’s “Prologue to the Satires,” 128.