[193]. Dignum (the singer). Charles Dignum (1765?–1827), of Drury Lane.
Suett. Richard Suett (d. 1805), a comic actor, very popular at Drury Lane.
‘No Song, No Supper.’ A musical entertainment of Hoare’s (1790), with music by Storace. See a letter from Hazlitt to his father (Memoirs, I. 17–18), from which it appears that it was at Liverpool in 1790 (not 1792) that he saw this piece.
The false Florimel. The Faerie Queen, Bk. III. canto 8.
The grinding law of necessity. The reference here and elsewhere is to Malthus. See vol. IV. A Reply to Malthus and The Spirit of the Age.
[194]. Opens all the cells where memory slept. Cowper, The Task, VI. 11–12.
Who enters there. Dante’s Inferno, III. 1. 9.
ESSAY XVIII. ON THE QUALIFICATIONS NECESSARY TO
SUCCESS IN LIFE
From The London Magazine, vol. I., June 1820, ‘Table Talk, 1.’
[195]. The race is not to the swift. Eccles. ix. 11.