[302]. Hope travels through [‘when we die’]. Pope’s Essay on Man, Ep. II. 273.
The dregs of life. Dryden, Aureng-zebe, IV. 1.
Compacted of imagination. Midsummer Night’s Dream, V. 1. ‘Of imagination all compact.’
Reason panders will. Hamlet, III. 4.
[303]. Dallied with the innocence of love. Twelfth Night, II. 4.
The story of Federigo Alberigi. Boccaccio, Decameron (Fifth Day, Novel IX.).
Those notable discoveries that Pope was a poet. See vol. IV. The Spirit of the Age, note to p. 259; vol. V. Lectures on the English Poets, pp. 69–71; and vol. VI. Table Talk, notes to pp. 210 and 223. See also Hazlitt’s Essay ‘On the Question whether Pope was a Poet’ in The New Scots Magazine, February 1818.
Her Simple Story. Elizabeth Inchbald’s (1753–1821) A Simple Story was published in 1791. Cf. a letter of Hazlitt’s to Miss Stoddart, Memoirs of W. Hazlitt, I. 153.
[304]. Simple movement of her finger. Les Confessions, Partie I. Liv. II.
The letter in the New Eloise. Première Partie, Lettre XXIII.