[214]. De omni scibile, etc. The origin of this saying seems obscure. See Notes and Queries, 7th Ser. IX. 500 and Larousse, Fleurs Latines, 94. We may sometimes see articles of this sort. Hazlitt had himself suffered from this form of reviewing. See notes to Reply to Malthus, vol. IV. p. 399. [215]. ‘As when a well-graced actor,’ etc. Richard II., Act V. Scene 2. Much as Peter Pounce, etc. Joseph Andrews, Book III. Chap. 13. ‘Assumes the rod,’ etc.
‘Assumes the god,
Affects to nod,
And seems to shake the spheres.’
Dryden, Alexander’s Feast, 39–41.
‘Others may boast a single man to kill:
But I the blood of thousands daily kill,’ etc.
‘Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit
And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,’ etc.
Hamlet, Act II. Scene 2.