ESSAY X. ON ENVY (A DIALOGUE)
Teniers. David Teniers, the younger (1610–1694). See vol. VIII. Lectures on the English Comic Writers, pp. 139 and 141 and notes.
Wilkie. Sir David Wilkie (1785–1841).
[98]. Hoppner. John Hoppner (1759–1810), portrait and landscape painter, who excelled in portraits of women and children.
——. Mr. W. C. Hazlitt suggests that Godwin is meant.
[99]. Turner. J. M. W. Turner, the greatest English landscape painter (1775–1851).
The wisest, meanest of mankind. Pope’s Essay on Man, Ep. IV. 281, applied to Bacon.
W***. Wellington.
[100]. Lord Castlereagh. See ante, note to p. 13.
To throw a cruel sunshine on a fool. Armstrong, The Art of Preserving Health, Book IV.