[114]. The world forgetting. Pope’s Eloisa to Abelard, 208.
Or stock-dove plain amid the forest deep. Thomson, The Castle of Indolence, I. 4.
Think of its crimes. Thomson, An Hymn on Solitude.
[115]. Lord Keppel. Augustus Viscount Keppel (1725–1786), one of the English Admirals. He and his second in command, Sir Hugh Palliser, were court-martialled for permitting the French fleet to escape after an indecisive battle off Ushant, 27th July 1778. Both were acquitted.
Mr. C——r ... made the House stare. See Hansard, N. S., IX., 1211, June 25, 1823, for Croker’s remarks.
[116]. To lie like Whitfield. Whitfield was buried in 1770. When the coffin was opened in 1784, the body was found to be perfect. See L. Tyerman’s Life, II. 602–3. Possibly it is to this that Hazlitt refers.
Warm, kneaded motion to a clog.
This sensible warm motion to become
A kneaded clod.
Measure for Measure, III. 1.