[264]. Moved the very stones of Rome. Julius Cæsar, III. 2.
Fraught of aspic’s tongues. Othello, III. 3.
Wielded at will the fierce democracy. Paradise Regained, IV. 269.
Roared you in the ears of the groundlings. Cf. ‘to split the ears of the groundlings,’ Hamlet, III. 2; and Midsummer Night’s Dream, I. 2.
[264]. Create a soul. Milton’s Comus, 561.
[265]. Bottom! thou art translated! Midsummer Night’s Dream, III. 1.
Windham. William Windham (1750–1810). Secretary of State for War under Pitt, and again after Pitt’s death.
Mr. Coleridge’s Conciones ad Populum. Two addresses against Pitt, 1795, republished in Essays on his Own Times.
Mr. Thelwal’s Tribune. The Tribune ... consisting chiefly of the political lectures of J. Thelwall, taken in shorthand by W. Ramsay, and revised by the lecturer, 3 vols. 1795–6. Thelwall (1764–1834) was a lecturer on elocution as well as a reformer.
The self-same words. Macbeth, I. 3.