The quills upon the fretful porcupine. Hamlet, I. 5.
So drossy and divisible are they. Dryden, The Hind and the Panther, I. 319.
Voltaire’s traveller. See Histoire des Voyages de Scarmentado.
[174]. Note. Mr. Scarlett. Probably James Scarlett, afterwards Lord Abinger, who practised in the Northern Circuit and Lancashire Sessions till 1807. Hazlitt received a complimentary letter from Scarlett on the publication of Principles of Human Action. (See Four Generations of a Literary Family, I. 92–3, and Memoirs, I. 112, and post, note to Principles of Human Action).
Sterne asks why a sword. Tristram Shandy, Bk. IX. chap. 33.
Note. Mr. Shepherd. See ante, note to p. 61.
[175]. The sovereign’st thing on earth. 1 King Henry IV., I. 3.
Makes the odds all even. Measure for Measure, III. I.
Hacquet’s Travels in Carpathia. Balthasar Hacquet’s (1740–1815) book was published in 1790–6 at Nürnberg.
[176]. Dull, cold winter does inhabit here. ‘But dead-cold winter must inhabit here.’ The Two Noble Kinsmen, Act II. 1.