[84]. It was a phrase, (I have understood,) common in this gentleman’s mouth, that Robespierre, by destroying the lives of thousands, saved the lives of millions. Or, as Mr. Wordsworth has lately expressed the same thought with a different application, ‘Carnage is the daughter of humanity.’
[85]. You have spelt it wrong (Marocchius), on purpose for what I know.
[86]. Quoted from the Edinburgh Review, No. 56.
[87]. Antony and Cleopatra, Act IV. Scene 14.
[88]. For Tramezzani and William Augustus Conway (1789–1828), who were not favourites of Hazlitt, see A View of the English Stage.
[89]. Paradise Lost, IV. 299.
[90]. Don Quixote, Book III. Chap. xxv.
[91]. The Canterbury Tales. The Wife of Bath’s Prologue, ll. 593–599.
[92]. Hamlet, Act II. Scene 2.
[93]. Cobbett’s Weekly Political Register for November 18, 1815 (vol. xxix). Cobbett’s outburst against Milton and Shakespeare is headed ‘On the subject of potatoes.’