Any differences between the text quoted by Hazlitt and the texts used for the purposes of these notes which seem worth pointing out are indicated in square brackets.
For Sergeant Talfourd’s impressions of these lectures, and other matters of interest connected with their delivery, the reader may be referred to the Memoirs of William Hazlitt, vol. i., pp. 236 et seq.
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[1]. Spreads its sweet leaves. Romeo and Juliet, I. 1.
[2]. The stuff of which our life is made. Cf. The Tempest, IV. 1.
Mere oblivion. As You Like It, II. 7.
Man’s life is poor as beast’s. King Lear, II. 4. [‘Man’s life’s as cheap as beast’s.’]
There is warrant for it. Cf. Richard III., I. 4, and Macbeth, II. 3.
Such seething brains and the lunatic. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, V. 1.
[3]. Angelica and Medoro. Characters in Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso (1516).