Macbeth, Act III. Scene 2.
‘—— so distinctly wrought
That one might almost say, her body thought.’
John Donne, An Anatomy of the World, Second Anniversary, 245–6.
ESSAY III. THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED.
[13]. ‘Whate’er Lorraine,’ etc. Thomson, The Castle of Indolence, Canto I. Stanza 38. Lord Radnor’s park. For a fuller account of the collections here referred to, see the volume in the present edition containing Hazlitt’s Fine Art Criticisms. [14]. ‘Bosomed high,’ etc. L’Allegro, 78. ‘Hands that the rod,’ etc. Gray, Elegy, 47. ‘A forked mountain,’ etc. Antony and Cleopatra, Act IV. Scene 14. ‘Signifying nothing.’ Macbeth, Act V. Scene 5, [15]. When I went to the Louvre. In 1802. See Memoirs of William Hazlitt, I. 84 et seq. Titian’s Mistress. The picture so called is in the Louvre. It is in fact a portrait of Alphonso of Ferrara and Laura Dianti. The Transfiguration, etc. On the fall of Napoleon, Raphael’s Transfiguration, and Domenichino’s Communion of St. Jerome were restored to Rome; Titian’s St. Peter Martyr to Venice, and his Hippolito de Medici to Florence. The St. Peter Martyr was destroyed by fire in 1867. Hazlitt’s copy of ‘A young Nobleman with a glove’ is still in the possession of Mr. W. C. Hazlitt. [16]. ‘If thou hast not seen,’ etc. Cf. ‘Wast ever in court, shepherd?—No, truly.—Then thou art damned.’ As You Like It, Act III., Scene 2. The Elgin marbles. See Vol. i. p. 143 and note. ‘Hard money.’ Specie opposed to paper currency. Cf. ‘Your mother has a hundred pounds in hard money’ etc. Farquhar, The Recruiting Officer, Act IV. Scene 3. ‘Number numberless.’ Paradise Regained, III. 310 [numbers]. ‘Casual fruition,’ etc. Paradise Lost, IV. 766–7. [17]. W—. Richard Wilson. [18]. A friend of mine. Northcote, presumably, whose Life of Sir Joshua Reynolds had been praised in The Edinburgh Review (vol. xxiii. pp. 263 et seq.) A friend had bought, etc. Mr. W. C. Hazlitt suggests that this was Haydon. [19]. Richardson, in his Essays. A Discourse on the Science of a Connoisseur (Essays, 1773, pp. 327 et seq.) [20]. ‘Guido Reni,’ etc. Richardson, Essays, 1773, pp. 217–8. [21]. Gandy. William Gandy (died 1729). See Hazlitt’s Conversations of James Northcote, ante, p. 345. A short Memoir of Gandy forms the Appendix to Northcote’s Life of Reynolds. Poor Dan. Stringer. Cf. ante, pp. 345–6. ‘Swallowing the tailor’s news.’ King John, Act IV., Scene 2. ‘Bastards of his genius,’ etc. Cf. Vol. iv. p. 209.
ESSAY III. ON THE PAST AND FUTURE.
[22]. When Sterne in the Sentimental Journey. A Sentimental Journey, ‘Character. Versailles.’ [23]. ‘The thoughts of which,’ etc. Cf. ‘Yet loss of thee would never from my heart.’ Paradise Lost, IX. 912. ‘What though the radiance,’ etc. Wordsworth, Ode, Intimations of Immortality, 179 et seq. ‘Retrace its footsteps,’ etc. Paradise Lost, XI. 329–333. ‘And see how dark,’ etc. Wordsworth, Lines written while sailing in a boat at evening.
‘In weary being now I pine,
For a’ the life of life is dead,’