Stocks and stones. ‘You blocks, you stones, etc.’ Julius Cæsar, I. 1.
[29]. Miss ——. The reference is probably to Fanny Burney (1752–1840), and her novels Evelina (1778) and Cecilia (1782).
Whose is the superscription? S. Matthew, xxii. 20.
G—— C——. Probably Godwin and Coleridge.
[32]. The fear of being silent strikes us dumb [‘makes us mute’]. Cowper, Conversation, 352.
[33]. Grimm’s Memoirs. Colburn published in 1813 an abridgment in 4 vols. of the Mémoires historiques, littéraires et anecdotiques of Frederic Melchior, Baron de Grimm (1723–1807). They are full of entertaining information concerning eighteenth century French writers. See Vol. I. The Round Table, p. 131 et seq.
We had good talk, sir. Boswell’s Johnson, ed. G. B. Hill, II. 66.
I once knew a very ingenious man. Probably Sir John Stoddart, Hazlitt’s brother-in-law. He was a friend of the Bourbons. See vol. III. Political Essays, p. 169 et seq.
Sterne ... Yorick. A Sentimental Journey: The Passport, Versailles.
[34]. Villainous, and shews a pitiful ambition. Hamlet, III. 2.