Ib. Book II. Canto vii. Stanza 33.
ESSAY XII. ON WILL-MAKING
[116]. A will of one of the Thellussons. The famous will of Peter Thellusson (1737–1797), who directed the income of his property to be accumulated during the lives of all his children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren, living at the time of his death. The will was upheld, but an Act, commonly called the Thellusson Act (39 and 40 George III. c. 98) was passed to prevent the repetition of such accumulations.
ESSAY XIII. ON CERTAIN INCONSISTENCIES IN SIR JOSHUA
REYNOLDS’S DISCOURSES
Cf. six papers which Hazlitt contributed to The Champion (Oct. 30, Nov. 6, Nov. 27, Dec. 4, Dec. 25, 1814, and Jan. 8, 1815) on Reynolds as a painter and a critic.
[123]. ‘You take my house,’ etc. Merchant of Venice, Act IV. Scene 1. [124]. ‘Ascending the brightest heaven of invention.’ Henry V., Prologue. Carlo Maratti. 1625–1713. [128]. ‘It loses some colour.’ Othello, Act I. Scene 1. [130]. ‘Not once perceive,’ etc. Comus, 74–5. Note. Boucher. François Boucher (1703–1770).
ESSAY XIV. THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED
[131]. Two papers in the Idler. Nos. 76 and 82. [133]. Denner’s style. Balthasar Denner (1685–1749), the German painter, whose too minute detail is often referred to by Hazlitt. [134]. ‘Of late reformed,’ etc. Hamlet, Act III. Scene 2. ‘What word,’ etc. Paradise Lost, IX. 1144.
‘Hence mighty Virgil’s said, of old,
From dung to have extracted gold,’ etc.