[352]. How long hath this possession, Act V. 1. [353]. They brought one Pinch, Act V. 1.
DOUBTFUL PLAYS OF SHAKESPEAR
[353]. All the editors, Schlegel, p. 442. at the blackness, Schlegel, see above. [357]. a lasting storm. Per., IV. 1 [whirring me from my friends].
POEMS AND SONNETS
[358]. as broad and casing. Macbeth, Act III. 4 [broad and general as the casing air]. cooped. Cf. Macbeth, Act III. 4 [cabined, cribbed, confined]. glancing from heaven. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act V. 1. [359]. Oh! idle words. Lucrece, ll. 1016–1122 [Out, idle words, be you mediators]. Round hoof’d. Venus and Adonis, ll. 295–300. And their heads. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act IV. 1. [360]. Constancy. Sonnet XXV. Love’s Consolation. Sonnet XXIX. Novelty. Sonnet CII. [stops her pipe]. [361]. Life’s Decay. Sonnet LXXIII.
A LETTER TO WILLIAM GIFFORD, ESQ.
William Gifford (1756–1826), the son of a glazier, after a neglected childhood, during which he was at one time apprenticed to a shoemaker, entered Exeter College, Oxford, through the kindness of a friend, and graduated in 1782. His two satires, The Baviad (1791) and The Mæviad (1795), were published together in 1797, and his translation of Juvenal, upon which he had been working since he left Oxford, in 1802. He became editor of The Anti-Jacobin (1797), and was the first editor (1809–1824) of The Quarterly Review. He published a translation of Persius in 1821, and editions of some of the old dramatists: Massinger (1805), Ben Jonson (1816), Ford (1827), and Shirley (completed by Dyce, 1833). In The Examiner for June 14, 1818, appeared a ‘Literary Notice,’ entitled ‘The Editor of the Quarterly Review,’ which Hazlitt incorporated in the present ‘Letter.’
[366]. ‘False and hollow,’ etc. Paradise Lost, II. 112 et seq. Ackerman’s dresses for May. Rudolf Ackerman’s (1764–1834) Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions, Manufactures, etc., was issued periodically between 1809 and 1828. Carlton House. The residence of the Prince Regent. It was pulled down in 1826. [367]. A Jacobin stationer. Hazlitt refers to the case of William Paul Rogers, a Chelsea stationer, who for taking an active part in a petition for reform was deprived of the charge of a letter-box. Leigh Hunt referred to the case in The Examiner for February 7, 1819 (not February 9, as Hazlitt says), and opened a subscription list for Rogers. The two clergymen referred to took an active part against Rogers. Wellesley, a brother of the Duke of Wellington, was Rector of Chelsea, and Butler had a school there. ‘The tenth transmitter.’
‘No tenth transmitter of a foolish face.’
Richard Savage’s The Bastard, l. 7.