Addison’s Cato, Act V. Scene 1.
ON HOGARTH’S ‘MARRIAGE À LA MODE’
This essay (from The Examiner, June 5, 1814) and the next one (June 19, 1814) continuing the same subject, were (in substance) republished in the English Comic Writers (see the Lecture VII. on the works of Hogarth) and also in Sketches of the Principal Picture-Galleries in England, etc. (1824).
PAGE [25]. The late collection. In 1814. ‘Of amber-lidded snuff-box.’ Pope’s Rape of the Lock, IV. 123.
THE SUBJECT CONTINUED
[28]. What Fielding says. See Tom Jones, Book IV. Chap. i. [30]. ‘All the mutually reflected charities.’ Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France (Select Works, ed. Payne, ii. 40). ‘Frequent and full,’ etc. See Paradise Lost, III. 795–797. [31]. Note. The ‘Reflector.’ For 1811. The essay is included in Poems, Plays and Miscellaneous Essays of Charles Lamb (ed. Ainger).
ON MILTON’S LYCIDAS
No. 15 of the Round Table series.
PAGE [31]. ‘At last he rose,’ etc. Lycidas, 192–193. Dr. Johnson. See his Life of Milton (Works, Oxford ed., vii. 119). ‘Most musical, most melancholy.’ Il Penseroso, l. 62. ‘With eager thought warbling his Doric lay.’ Lycidas, l. 189. [32]. ‘Together both,’ etc. Lycidas, ll. 25 et seq. ‘Oh fountain Arethuse,’ etc. Lycidas, ll. 85 et seq. [33]. ‘Like one that had been led astray,’ etc. Il Penseroso, ll. 69–70. ‘Next Camus,’ etc. Lycidas, ll. 103 et seq. Has been found fault with. By Dr. Johnson in his Life of Milton (Works, Oxford ed., vii. 120). Camoens, who, in his ‘Lusiad.’ See The Lusiads, Canto ii. stanzas 56 et seq. [34]. ‘The muses in a ring,’ etc. Il Penseroso, ll. 47–48. ‘Have sight of Proteus,’ etc. Wordsworth’s Sonnet, ‘The world is too much with us.’ ‘Return, Alphaeus,’ etc. Lycidas, ll. 132 et seq. [35]. Dr. Johnson. Johnson does not seem to have been offended by the dolphins in particular. The picture by Barry. ‘The triumph of the Thames,’ number 4 of the six pictures painted by James Barry (1741–1806) for the Society of Arts. Johnson’s friend, Dr. Charles Burney (1726–1814) figures as one of the renowned dead. ‘Here’s flowers for you’ etc. Winter’s Tale, Act. IV. Scene 4. [36]. Dr. Johnson’s ‘general remark,’ etc. See his Life of Milton (Works, Oxford ed., vii. 119, 131), and Boswell’s Life of Johnson (ed. G. B. Hill), iv. 305.