No. 42 of the Round Table series, with occasional passages from No. 43, on Shakspeare’s female characters, the substance of which was published in Characters of Shakespear’s Plays (Cymbeline, Othello, and Winter’s Tale).
PAGE [105]. ‘As the vine curls her tendrils.’ Paradise Lost, IV. 307. [106]. ‘Two of far nobler shape,’ etc. Paradise Lost, IV. 288–311. [107]. ‘That day I oft remember,’ etc. Paradise Lost, IV. 449–465. ‘So spake our general mother,’ etc. Paradise Lost, IV. 492–501. ‘So much the more,’ etc. Paradise Lost, V. 8–20. [108]. ‘When Adam thus to Eve,’ etc. Paradise Lost, IV. 610–611. ‘To whom thus Eve,’ etc. Paradise Lost, IV. 634. ‘To whom our general ancestor,’ etc. Paradise Lost, IV. 659–660. ‘Methought close at mine ear,’ etc. Paradise Lost, V. 35–47. ‘So talked the spirited sly snake.’ Paradise Lost, IX. 613. ‘So cheered he his fair spouse,’ etc. Paradise Lost, V. 129–135. [109]. ‘Under his forming hands,’ etc. Paradise Lost, VIII. 470–477. ‘In shadier bower,’ etc. Paradise Lost, IV. 705–719. ‘Meanwhile at table Eve,’ etc. Paradise Lost, V. 443–450. [110]. ‘Yet not more sweet,’ etc. Southey’s Carmen Nuptiale, Proem, stanza 18. ‘O unexpected stroke,’ etc. Paradise Lost, XI. 268–285. [111]. ‘This most afflicts me,’ etc. Paradise Lost, XI. 315–333.
OBSERVATIONS ON MR. WORDSWORTH’S POEM ‘THE EXCURSION’
This essay is composed of two papers by Hazlitt which appeared in The Examiner on August 21 and August 28, 1814.
PAGE [112]. ‘Without form and void.’ Genesis, i. 2. [113]. ‘The bare trees and mountains bare.’ Wordsworth, ‘To my Sister.’ ‘Exchange the shepherd’s flock.’ Excursion, Book VI. [114]. ‘The sad historian of the pensive vale.’ Goldsmith’s The Deserted Village, l. 136. ‘Our system is not fashioned,’ etc. Excursion, Book VI. ‘Such as the meeting soul may pierce.’ L’Allegro, l. 138. ‘In that fair clime,’ etc. Excursion, Book IV.
‘Him I mean
Who penned, to ridicule confiding faith,
This sorry Legend.’
THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED
From The Examiner, October 2, 1814.