[264]. ‘Corporate bodies have no soul.’ ‘They [corporations] cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed nor excommunicate, for they have no souls.’ Sir Edward Coke, Case of Sutton’s Hospital, 10 Rep. 32. ‘Self-love and social.’ Pope, Essay on Man, IV. 396. ‘A pestilent fellow.’ Cf. ‘What a pestilent slave is this same!’ Romeo and Juliet, Act IV. Scene 5. [265]. The town-hall reels, etc. Mr. W. C. Hazlitt says that ‘it appears from a rough memorandum on the back of one of the leaves of the MS. that the Mayor’s Feast at Basingstoke was in the writer’s mind when he wrote this,’ ‘The very stones prate.’ Macbeth, Act II. Scene 1. ‘Dressed in a little brief authority.’ Measure for Measure, Act II. Scene 2. [266]. ‘Compunctious visitings,’ etc. Macbeth, Act I. Scene 5. ‘Motley’s his proper wear.’ ‘Motley’s the only wear.’ As You Like It, Act II. Scene 7. ‘Diseases are turned,’ etc. Henry IV., Part II. Act I. Scene 2. Note. ‘Sacred pity,’ etc. As You Like It, Act II. Scene 7. [267]. ‘Disembowel himself,’ etc. Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (Select Works, ed. Payne, II. 101). [268]. Hitherto, etc. Job, xxxviii. 11. ‘In spite of,’ etc. ‘And, spite of pride, in erring reason’s spite.’ Pope, Essay on Man, I. 293. [270]. The Barrys, etc. James Barry (1741–1806) quarrelled with his brother Academicians and was expelled in 1799; Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786–1846), to whom Hazlitt probably refers as ‘H—,’ also quarrelled with the Royal Academy, and was never made a member; Charles Cotton (1728–1798), coach-painter to George III., was by him nominated one of the foundation members of the Academy.
ESSAY XXVIII. WHETHER ACTORS OUGHT TO SIT IN THE BOXES
‘By his so potent art.’ The Tempest, Act V. Scene 1. [272]. ‘Pile millions,’ etc.
‘Be buried quick with her, and so will I:
And, if thou prate of mountains, let them throw
Millions of acres on us,’ etc.
Hamlet, Act V. Scene 1.
‘Dread o’er the scene, the ghost of Hamlet stalks;
Othello rages; poor Monimia mourns;
And Belvidera pours her soul in love.’