M. B. Martin Charles Burney, Lamb’s friend, the son of Admiral Burney.
The author of ‘the Road to Ruin.’ Thomas Holcroft. See Vol. II. p. 121 et seq.
The Critique of Pure Reason. Immanuel Kant’s work was published in 1781.
Mitre-court. In the Temple, where the Lambs resided for eight years at the beginning of the nineteenth century.
[38]. The Biographia Literaria. Coleridge’s book was published in 1817.
Like Angels’ visits. ‘Like those of angels, short and far between.’ Blair’s The Grave, 582. Cf. Vol. V. Lectures on the English Poets, p. 150.
Mr. Douce of the Museum. Francis Douce (d. 1834), antiquarian, Shakespearian scholar, and keeper of manuscripts in the British Museum.
L. H—— ... tropical blood. Leigh Hunt’s father, Isaac Hunt, was a Barbadian.
Aliquando sufflaminandus erat. Probably quoted from Ben Jonson’s Discoveries, LXIV., De Shakespeare Nostrati. See Vol. IV. The Spirit of the Age, note to p. 336.
[39]. Mr. Northcote. James Northcote (1746–1831).