[P. 310.] silenced a learned professor. Cf. “Spirit of the Age”: “He used to plague Fuseli by asking him after the origin of the Teutonic dialects, and Dr. Parr, by wishing to know the meaning of the common copulative, Is.”
Curran, John Philpot (1750-1817), member of Parliament from Ireland, orator and wit.
[P. 311.] Mrs. Inchbald, Elizabeth (1753-1821), a well-known actress, dramatist, and novelist. In literature she is associated with the group of William Godwin, and her best-known works are “A Simple Story” and “Nature and Art.”
from noon to dewy eve. “Paradise Lost,” I, 743.
Mrs. M——. Mrs. Montagu, wife of Basil Montagu. In the “Pleasure of Hating” (“Plain Speaker”) there is another allusion to Mrs. Montagu “whose dark raven locks made a picturesque background to our discourse.”
H—t’s. Leigh Hunt’s.
N—’s. Northcote’s.
H—yd—n’s. Haydon’s.
Doctor Tronchin. Theodore Tronchin, a physician of Geneva, figures in Rousseau’s “Confessions.”
[P. 312.] Sir Fopling Flutter, a character in George Etherege’s comedy, “The Man of Mode.”