[278]. Fancies and good nights. 2 King Henry IV., III. 2.
Dull as the lake that slumbers. Goldsmith, The Traveller, 312.
‘Made fierce with dark keeping.’ Bacon, The Advancement of Learning, Book I., iv. 7.
[279]. Became his glittering bride. Wordsworth, The Excursion, III. 735–6.
Dilettanti Society. An association founded in 1734 to promote the study of antique art in England.
Note. Stentor. Iliad. V. 783.
Note. Political House that Jack Built. A squib of William Hone’s, published in 1819.
Note. Mr. C. Wynne. Charles Watkin Williams Wynne (1775–1850). He was proposed for Speaker June 2, 1817, but Manners-Sutton was preferred to him. Canning said that the only objection to him was that ‘one would be sometimes tempted to say Mr. Squeaker,’ alluding to his voice. See vol. III. Political Essays, note to p. 213.
ESSAY XXV. ON A PORTRAIT OF AN ENGLISH LADY,
BY VANDYKE
[280]. Where all is conscience. Chaucer’s Prologue, 150.