Young’s Love of Fame, II. 113.
[290]. While by the power. Wordsworth’s Tintern Abbey.
Come then, the colours and the ground prepare. Pope, Moral Essays, Ep. II.
[292]. The whole gallery at Fonthill. ‘Vathek’ Beckford’s place. See the volume of Hazlitt’s writings on art.
The taste of the great in pictures. The rest of the essay from this point appeared in Hazlitt’s Commonplaces, taken from The Examiner, 1823.
Note. Day’s garish eye. Il Penseroso, 141.
[293]. Mr. Holwell Carr. William Holwell Carr (1758–1830), art connoisseur. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1797–1820 as an honorary exhibitor.
Sir George Beaumont. Sir George Howard Beaumont, Bart. (1753–1827), amateur painter and patron of artists.
Bosoms and businesses of men. Bacon, Dedication to Essays.
Trifles light as air. Othello, III. 3.