Wordsworth, Rob Roy’s Grave.
‘O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee
To temper man: we had been brutes without you.’
Otway, Venice Preserved, Act I. Scene 1.
ESSAY VIII. ON THE IGNORANCE OF THE LEARNED
First published in the Scots’ Magazine (New Series), July 1818, vol. III. pp. 55 et seq. Hazlitt refers to this essay in A Letter to William Gifford (vol. I., p. 382).
[70]. ‘For the more languages,’ etc. Satire upon the Abuse of Human Learning, 57–68. ‘Spectacles.’ Dryden says of Shakespeare, ‘he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature.’ Essay of Dramatic Poesy (Essays, ed. Ker, I. 80). [71]. ‘Leave me to my repose.’ ‘Leave me, leave me to repose,’ the refrain of the Prophetess in Gray’s The Vegtam’s Kivitha. The line is quoted by Burke in A Letter to a Noble Lord (Works, Bohn, V. 112). ‘Take up his bed and walk.’ St. Matthew, ix. 6. ‘Enfeebles all internal strength of thought.’ Goldsmith, The Traveller, 270. ‘Sweats in the eye of Phœbus.’ Henry V., Act IV. Scene 1. [72]. ‘Th’ enthusiast Fancy,’ etc. ‘The truant fancy was a wanderer ever.’ Lamb, Fancy Employed on Divine Subjects, I. 1. The least respectable character. Hazlitt is probably referring to Canning. [73]. A person of this class. Charles Burney, D.D. (1757–1817), whose Remarks on the Greek Verses of Milton appeared in 1790. Dr. —. Hazlitt refers to Charles Burney (see last note) and Dr. Parr. Cf. a similar passage in The Examiner, vol. I. p. 425. [74]. ‘The mighty world of eye and ear.’ Wordsworth, Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey, 105–6. ‘Knowledge quite shut out.’ ‘And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.’ Paradise Lost, III. 50. ‘Of the colouring of Titian,’ etc. Tristram Shandy, III. 12. The Elgin marbles. See The Round Table, vol. I. p. 143 and note. ‘Knows no touch of it.’ Hamlet, Act III. Scene 2. ‘The art and practique,’ etc. Henry V., Act I. Scene 1. ‘Has no skill in surgery.’ Henry IV., Part I., Act V. Scene 1. [76]. Baxter. Cf. the essay ‘On People of Sense’ in the Plain Speaker, vol. VII. p. 243. ‘Wink and shut,’ etc. Prologue to Marston’s Antonio’s Revenge (History of Antonio and Mellida, Part II.). Laud, etc. William Laud (1573–1645), and John Whitgift (1530?–1604), Archbishops of Canterbury; George Bull (1634–1710), Bishop of St. David’s, author of Defensio Fidei Nicenae (1685) and other theological works; Daniel Waterland (1683–1740), whose works were edited in eleven vols. in 1823–1828, was not a bishop; Humphrey Prideaux (1648–1724), whose Old and New Testament connected ... to the Time of Christ first appeared in two folio volumes 1716–1718; Isaac de Beausobre (1659–1738), the Huguenot writer; Augustine Calmet (1672–1757); Samuel, Baron von Puffendorf (1632–1694) and Eméric de Vattel (1714–1767), the jurists; Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540–1609); Jerome Cardan (1501–1576), and Kaspar Schoppe (1576–1649). [76]. ‘Gone to the vault of all the Capulets.’ See vol. I. note to p. 150.
ESSAY IX. THE INDIAN JUGGLERS
[79]. Note. It was at Truro that Opie, who had already acquired some practice as a portrait painter, met with John Wolcot (1738–1819). [80]. I was at that time employed, etc. See Memoirs of William Hazlitt, I. xvi. ‘In argument,’ etc. The Deserted Village, 211–2. [81]. ‘To allow for the wind.’ Ivanhoe, chap. xiii. ‘Human face divine.’ Paradise Lost, III. 44. [82]. H—s and H—s. Mr. W. C. Hazlitt in his edition of Table Talk prints ‘Haydons and H—s.’ ‘In tones and gestures hit.’ ‘In tones and numbers hit.’ Paradise Regained, IV. 255. To snatch this grace, etc. An unacknowledged quotation from Pope, Essay on Criticism, 153. ‘Commercing with the skies.’ Il Penseroso, 39. [83]. ‘Thrills in each nerve,’ etc. Cf.
‘a sudden horror chill