A Minister of State. Probably Castlereagh, who led the House of Commons until, upon his father’s death in April 1821, he became Lord Londonderry.
[196]. Aspiring to be Gods. Pope’s Essay on Man, I. 127–8.
Appliances and means to boot. 2 King Henry IV., III. 1.
Some trick not worth an egg. Coriolanus, IV. 4.
There’s but the twinkling of a star. Butler’s Hudibras, Part II. Canto III. 956.
[197]. Constrained by mastery. Cf. Wordsworth, The Excursion, VI.
‘That Love will not submit to be controlled
By mastery.’
[198]. George Psalmanazar. The literary impostor (1679–1763). He was a native of France and pretended to be a Formosan. To keep up the imposition he invented an alphabet and a Formosan grammar.
Enquiry concerning Political Justice. Godwin’s book (1793).