The Curfew. Tobin’s play was produced at Drury Lane, Feb. 19, 1807.
[346]. Mr. Lamb’s John Woodvil. Published 1802.
There where we have treasured. Cf. St. Matt. vi. 21.
The tall [and elegant stag] deer that paints a dancing shadow of his horns in the swift brook [in the water, where he drinks].
Lamb’s John Woodvil, II. ii. 195–7.
But fools rush in. Pope’s Essay on Criticism, III. 66.
To say that he has written better. Lamb’s articles in Leigh Hunt’s Reflector on Hogarth and Shakespeare’s tragedies, appeared in 1811.
A gentleman of the name of Cornwall. Bryan Waller Procter’s (Barry Cornwall 1787–1874), Dramatic Scenes were published in 1819.
[347]. The Falcon. Boccaccio’s Decameron, 5th day, 9th story. See Characters of Shakespear’s Plays, vol. I. p. 331, and The Round Table, vol. I. p. 163.
[348]. A late number of the Edinburgh Review. The article is by Hazlitt himself, in the number for Feb. 1816, vol. 26, pp. 68, et seq.