[40]. Hear a sound so fine. James Sheridan Knowles’s Virginius (1820), V. 2.
[41]. Fuseli. Heinrich Fuessly or Henry Fuseli, portrait-painter and art critic (1741–1825). Cf. Vol. IV. The Spirit of the Age, p. 233.
Curran. John Philpot Curran (1750–1817), the Irish advocate.
Mrs. Inchbald. Elizabeth Inchbald (1753–1821), novelist, dramatist and actress.
Mary Woolstonecroft. Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (1759–1797), of the Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792).
From noon to dewy eve. Paradise Lost, I. 743.
A Table Talk. See note on source of this essay, above.
Peter Pindar. John Wolcot, ‘Peter Pindar’ (1738–1819), physician, satirist and poet.
Mrs. M——. Mrs. Montagu, Basil Montagu’s third wife, the widow of Thomas Skepper and mother (by Skepper) of Mrs. Bryan Waller Procter. She married Montagu about 1806.
[42]. H—t’s. Hunt’s.