[44]. This breathing world. King Richard III., I. 1.
[45]. In the world’s volume. Cymbeline, III. 4. ‘Seems as of it.’
There are more things. Hamlet I. 5.
[46]. The shadows in Plato’s cave. The Republic, Book VII.
As mice in an air-pump. Burke, A Letter to a Noble Lord (Works, Bohn, V. p. 142). Cf. also Young, Love of Fame, V. 177, and The Spectator, No. 21.
All the mighty world of eye and ear. Wordsworth’s Tintern Abbey.
The Last Moments of Mr. Fox. Circumstantial details of the Long Illness and last moments of the Rt. Hon. Charles James Fox, together with some strictures on his Public and Private Life, 1806. The remark about Burke’s style does not seem to have been made by Lord Holland.
Lord Holland. Henry Richard Vassall Fox, third Lord Holland (1773–1840).
Words that glow. ‘Thoughts that breathe and words that burn.’ Gray’s Progress of Poesy, 110.
[48]. Granville Sharp. The abolitionist (1735–1813), whose Memoirs by Prince Hoare were published in 1810.