[94]. See ante, p. 116.

[95]. Œuvres, xxxv. p. 159.

[96]. Probably the Letter from Paris, dated September 23, 1815, relating to the disposal of the works of art acquired by Napoleon.

[97]. See ante, pp. 140–151. The Catalogue appeared in The Morning Chronicle during the autumn of 1815 and the spring of 1816, beginning on September 22, 1815.

[98]. The reference seems to be to Samuel Parr (1747–1825) and Charles Burney (1757–1817). See Hazlitt’s essay ‘On the Ignorance of the Learned’ in Table Talk.

[99]. 2 Henry IV., Act II. Scene 4.

[100]. Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act I. Scene 2.

[101]. Political Register, July 30, 1802.

[102]. See The Faerie Queene, II. xii. st. 86 and 87.

[103]. A variation, quoted from Burke (A Letter to a Noble Lord), of Shakespeare’s well-known lines in The Tempest, Act IV. Scene 1.