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[P. 337.] Mrs. Radcliffe, Anne (1764-1823), a very popular writer of novels in which romance, sentiment, and terror are combined in cunning proportions. Her chief novels are “The Romance of the Forest” (1791), “The Mysteries of Udolpho” (1794) and “The Italian” (1797). Hazlitt writes of her in the lecture “On the English Novelists.”
sweet in the mouth. Revelation, x, 9.
gay creatures. “Comus,” 299.
Tom Jones discovers Square. Bk. V, ch. 5.
where Parson Adams. “Joseph Andrews,” Bk. IV, ch. 14.
[P. 338.] Chubb’s Tracts. Thomas Chubb (1679-1747), a tallow-chandler who devoted his leisure hours to the deistic controversy. His “Tracts and Posthumous Works” were published in six volumes in 1754.
fate, free-will. “Paradise Lost,” II, 560.
Would I had never seen. Marlowe’s “Dr. Faustus,” Scene 19.
[P. 339.] New Eloise. “Julie, ou La Nouvelle Héloise” (1760), a novel by the great French sentimentalist, Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), who was the most powerful personal force in the revolutionary movement of the eighteenth century and whose writings have left a deep impression on the political and educational systems of the nineteenth. His other important works are “The Social Contract” and “Émile” (1762) and the “Confessions” (1782). Hazlitt has a “Character of Rousseau” in the “Round Table” (see p. [xliv], n.).