Burns, Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn, Stanza 6.
Cf. also ‘Till youth and genial years are flown,
And all the life of life is gone,’
‘For ever, Fortune, wilt thou prove,’ etc.
ESSAY IV. ON GENIUS AND COMMON SENSE.
[33]. Mr. Burke, by whom, etc. Cf. Conversations of James Northcote, ante, p. 366. Windham in one of his Speeches. Speech on the Conduct of the Duke of York, March 14, 1809. Speeches, III. 205. [34]. One of the persons, etc. No doubt John Thelwall (1764–1834), who was acquitted in December, 1794, and retired to Brecon in 1798. Hazlitt afterwards became acquainted with him. Among his Poems (1801) is an epic entitled ‘Edwin of Northumbria.’ [35]. Note. ‘Sound it,’ etc. Hamlet, Act III. Scene 2. [36]. ‘Make assurance,’ etc. Macbeth, Act IV. Scene 1. ‘Shuts the gates,’ etc. Gray, Elegy, Stanza 17. Mr. Burke said. Reflections on the Revolution in France (Select Works, ed. Payne, II. 102). [37]. Come home to the business, etc. Bacon, Dedication to the Essays. Ultima ratio regum. See vol. III., note to p. 44. ‘There’s the rub,’ etc. ‘There’s the respect that makes calamity of so long life.’ Hamlet, Act III. Scene 1.
‘And I do think, or else this brain of mine
Hunts not the trail of policy so sure
As it hath used to do.’
Hamlet, Act II. Scene 2.