The Relapse, Act III. Sc. 1.
LECTURE III. ON COWLEY, BUTLER, SUCKLING, ETHEREGE, ETC.
PAGE ‘The metaphysical poets,’ etc. Johnson, Life of Cowley in The Lives of the Poets. The father of criticism. Aristotle. See the Poetics. [50]. ‘Hitch into a rhyme.’ Pope, Imitations of Horace, Satires, Book II., Satire i. 78. [51]. ‘And though reclaim’d,’ etc. Cowper, The Task, IV. 723-5. Donne. John Donne (1573-1631). ‘Heaved pantingly forth.’ King Lear, Act IV. Sc. 3. ‘Buried quick again.’ Hamlet’s words ‘Be buried quick with her, and so will I’ (Act V. Sc. 1), were perhaps in Hazlitt’s mind. ‘Little think’st thou,’ etc. Poems (‘Muses’ Library,’ I. 63). [52]. A lame and impotent conclusion. Othello, Act II. Sc. 1. ‘Whoever comes,’ etc. Poems, i. 61. ‘I long to talk,’ etc. Ibid. I. 56. [53]. ‘Here lies,’ etc. Ibid. I. 86. To the pure, etc. Titus I. 15. Bishop Hall’s Satires. The Satires of Joseph Hall (1574-1656), Bishop of Exeter (1627) and of Norwich (1641), were published in 1597 and 1598 under the title of Virgidemiarum, Sixe Bookes. For Pope’s admiration of him see Works, ed. Elwin and Courthope, III. 423. Sir John Davies (1569-1626). His Orchestra, or a Poeme of Dancing, appeared in 1596, his Nosce Teipsum, a poem on the immortality of the soul, in 1599. Crashaw. Richard Crashaw (1612?-1649). The ‘celebrated Latin Epigram’ appeared in a volume of Latin poems and epigrams published in 1634. The line referred to by Hazlitt, ‘Nympha pudica Deum vidit, et erubuit,’ is the last of a four-line epigram. See Boswell’s Life of Johnson (ed. Croker, 1847, p. 598). ‘Seething brains.’ A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act V. Sc. 1. The contest between the Musician and the Nightingale. Musick’s Duel, a version from the Latin of the Roman Jesuit Strada, paraphrased also by Ford in The Lover’s Melancholy, Act. I. Sc. 1. Davenant’s Gondibert. The Gondibert of Sir William D’Avenant (1606-1668), published in 1651. [54]. ‘Yet on that wall,’ etc. Gondibert, Book II. Canto V. St. 33. Marvel. Cf. Lectures on the English Poets, vol. V. p. 83. ‘And sat not as a meat,’ etc. The Character of Holland, 1. 30. One whose praise, etc. Probably Lamb. Shadwell. Thomas Shadwell (1642?-1692). The Libertine appeared in 1676. Carew. Thomas Carew (1598?-1639?). The reference to him in Sir John Suckling’s Session of the Poets (1637) is as follows:—
‘Tom Carew was next, but he had a fault
That would not stand well with a laureat;
His Muse was hard bound, and th’ issue of’s brain
Was seldom brought forth but with trouble and pain.’
LECTURE IV. ON WYCHERLEY, CONGREVE, VANBRUGH, AND FARQUHAR
[70]. ‘Graceful ornament,’ etc. ‘Nobility is a graceful ornament,’ etc. Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (Select Works, ed. Payne, II. 164). Waller’s Sacharissa. Lady Dorothy Sidney, eldest daughter of the second Earl of Leicester. Wycherley, etc. William Wycherley (1640?-1715), William Congreve (1670-1730), Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726), and George Farquhar (1678-1707). Leigh Hunt in 1840 published an edition of the dramatic works of all these writers, with biographical and critical notices. With this lecture compare Lamb’s famous essay ‘On the Artificial Comedy of the last Century,’ contributed to The London Magazine, April 1822. [71]. ‘Whose jewels,’ etc. Collins’s Ode, The Manners, 55-6. In the dedication of one of his plays. Probably The Way of the World, though the dedication hardly bears out Hazlitt’s account of it. Love for Love. 1695. The Way of the World. 1700. Munden’s Foresight. See A View of the English Stage, ante, p. 278. [72]. ‘I never valued,’ etc. Love for Love, Act V. Sc. 12. ‘To divest him,’ etc. Ibid. Act II. Sc. 7. The short scene with Trapland. Ibid. Act I. Sc. 5. ‘More misfortunes,’ etc. Ibid. Act I. Sc. 9. ‘Sisters every way.’ Ibid. Act II. Sc. 9. ‘Nay, if you come to that,’ etc. Ibid. The Old Bachelor, brought out in January, 1692-3; The Double Dealer, in November 1693. ‘Dying Ned Careless.’ The Double Dealer, Act IV. Sc. 9. ‘Love’s thrice reputed [repured] nectar.’ Troilus and Cressida, Act III. Sc. 2. [73]. ‘Ah! idle creature.’ The Way of the World, Act IV. Sc. 5. ‘Like Phœbus,’ etc. Ibid. Act IV. Sc. 4. ‘Come then,’ etc. Pope, Moral Essays, Epistle II., 17-20. ‘If there’s delight,’ etc. The Way of the World, Act III. Sc. 12. ‘Beauty the lover’s gift,’ etc. Ibid. Act II. Sc. 5. [74]. ‘Nature’s own sweet,’ etc. Twelfth Night, Act I. Sc. 5. ‘Wild wit,’ etc. Gray, Ode On a distant Prospect of Eton College, 46. ‘Blazons herself.’
‘Thou divine nature, how thyself thou blazon’st