[80]. See the Mæviad, l. 365, etc.:—
‘I too, whose voice no claims but truth’s e’er mov’d,
Who long have seen thy merits, long have lov’d;
Yet lov’d in silence, lest the rout should say,
Too partial friendship tun’d the applausive lay;
Now, now, that all conspire thy name to raise,
May join the shout of unsuspected praise.’
[81]. ‘To be honest as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.’—Shakspeare.
[82]. This character, (which has not been relished,) appeared originally in a small pamphlet in 1806, called Free Thoughts on Public Affairs, with a note acknowledging my obligations for the leading ideas to an article of Mr. Coleridge’s, in the Morning Post, Feb. 1800.
[83]. This extreme tenderness, it is to be observed, is felt by a person who in his Life of Ben Jonson, hopes that God will forgive Shakspeare for having written his plays!