[257]. Mr. Burke’s Refections. These were published in 1790, not 1791.
Lord John Russell’s Letter. See The Times, August 5, 1820. It was an appeal to Wilberforce to use his great influence in averting the crisis caused by the appearance of the Queen.
[260]. Grim-visaged, comfortless despair. Gray’s Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College. See also vol. VI. Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth, note to p. 296.
[261]. The glory hereafter to be revealed. Romans, viii. 18.
ESSAY XXIV. ON THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WRITING
AND SPEAKING
From The London Magazine, July 1820, Vol. II. p. 22, ‘Table Talk II.,’ signed T.
[262]. ‘Some minds,’ etc. Bacon, The Advancement of Learning, Book II., xxii. 4.
[263]. F——. Mr. W. C. Hazlitt states this was George Fletcher, who, with his brother Joseph, came up from Nottingham about 1826, and became a contributor to periodical literature.
Wart his caliver. 2 King Henry IV., III. 2.
Hear him but reason in divinity. King Henry V., I. 1. [‘Is still’]