[228]. Falls flat upon the grunsel edge. Ibid. I. 460.
He, like an eagle. Coriolanus, V. 6.
An Essay on Marriage. No such essay by Wordsworth is at present known to exist. It would seem either that ‘Marriage’ is a misprint for some other word, or that Hazlitt was mistaken in the subject of the essay referred to by Coleridge. Hazlitt is probably recalling a conversation with Coleridge in Shropshire at the beginning of 1798 (cf. ‘My First Acquaintance with Poets’), at which time A Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff (1793) was the only notable prose work which Wordsworth had published.
Note. Is this the present Earl? James Maitland, eighth Earl of Lauderdale (1759–1839), succeeded his father in August 1789.
[229]. Worthy of all acceptation. 1 Timothy, i. 15.
Clarendon’s History of the Grand Rebellion. 1704–7.
Hollingshed. Ralph Holinshed’s Chronicles of Englande, Scotlande, and Irelande, 1577, and later issues.
Stowe. John Stow’s (1525?–1605) Englysh Chronicles, 1561, and later issues, and A Survay of London, 1598, and later issues.
Fuller’s Worthies. Thomas Fuller’s (1608–1661) The History of the Worthies of England, 1662.
‘A Wife for a Month.’ 1623.