Strange! that such difference there should be. John Byrom, On the Feuds between Handel and Bononcini.
Mr. M——. ? James Mill (1773–1836).
Mr. P. Is Thomas Love Peacock is meant? He was the author of Rhododaphne (1818), the poem possibly referred to as Rhodope in Hazlitt’s note to p. 187. Peacock attacked poetry in his Four Ages of Poetry, contributed to Ollier’s Literary Pocket Book in 1820, and was answered by Shelley in his Defence of Poetry. Though Peacock has not been associated with Utilitarianism, yet his place at the India-House, where he was a fellow-clerk of James Mill’s, may have lent colour to the assumption that he was ‘one of them.’
Mr. Pl——. Francis Place, radical reformer (1771–1854).
The Last Man. Thomas Campbell’s poem The Last Man was printed in the New Monthly Magazine, vol. 8, No. 33, 1823. Perhaps Hazlitt had its title in mind.
[188]. Thereafter as it happens. 2 King Henry IV., III. 2. ‘Thereafter as they be.’
Primrose paths. Hamlet, I. 3.
The Hypocrite. Bickerstaff’s comedy (1768), based, through The Nonjuror (1717), on Molière’s Tartuffe (1664).
[192]. Swear, with Lord Peter. The Tale of a Tub, Section IV.
Its quality is not strained. Merchant of Venice, IV. 1.