In these two princely boys!’
Cymbeline, Act IV. Sc. 2.
LECTURE V. ON THE PERIODICAL ESSAYISTS
‘The proper study,’ etc. Pope, Essay on Man, II. 2. ‘Comes home to the business,’ etc. Bacon, dedication of the Essays. ‘Quicquid agunt homines,’ etc. These words of Juvenal (Sat. I. 85-6) formed the motto of the first 40 numbers of The Tatler. ‘Holds the mirror,’ etc. Hamlet, Act III. Sc. 2. ‘The act [art] and practic part,’ etc. Henry V., Act I. Sc. 1. [92]. ‘‘The web of our life,’ etc. All’s Well that Ends Well, Act IV. Sc. 3. ‘Quid sit pulchrum,’ etc. Horace, Epistles, I. 2, ll. 3-4. Montaigne. The Essais of Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592), were published, Books I. and II. in 1580, Book III. in 1588. [93]. ‘Pour out all as plain,’ etc. Pope, Imitations of Horace, Sat. I. 51-2. Note.
‘What made (say Montaigne, or more sage Charron!)
Otho a warrior, Cromwell a buffoon.’
Pope, Moral Essays, I. 87-8.
LECTURE VI. ON THE ENGLISH NOVELISTS
The whole of this Lecture down to the end of the paragraph on p. 125 is taken with but few variations from an article in The Edinburgh Review for Feb. 1815, on ‘Standard Novels and Romances,’ ostensibly a review of Madame D’Arblay’s The Wanderer.
PAGE [106]. ‘Be mine to read,’ etc. Gray, in a letter to Richard West, April 1742 (Letters, ed. Tovey, I. 97). ‘Something more divine in it.’ Hazlitt is perhaps recalling a passage in Bacon’s Advancement of Learning (II. iv. 2): ‘So as poesy serveth and conferreth to delectation, magnanimity, and morality, ... it may seem deservedly to have some participation of divineness,’ etc. [107]. Fielding in speaking, etc. Joseph Andrews, Book III. chap. 1. The description ... given by Mr. Burke. Reflections on the Revolution in France (Select Works, ed. Payne, II. 92-3). Echard ‘On the Contempt of the Clergy.’ John Eachard’s (1636?-1697) The Grounds and Occasions of the Contempt of the Clergy and Religion enquired into, published in 1670 and frequently reprinted. ‘Worthy of all acceptation.’ 1 Timothy, 1. 15. The Lecture which Lady Booby reads, etc. Joseph Andrews, Book IV. chap. 3. Blackstone or De Lolme. Sir William Blackstone’s (1723-1780) Commentaries on the Laws of England appeared in 1765-9, John Louis De Lolme’s (1740?-1807) The Constitution of England, in French 1771, in English 1775. [108]. What I have said upon it, etc. In The Edinburgh Review. See ante, note to p. 106. Don Quixote. Part I., 1605; Part II., 1615. ‘The long-forgotten order of chivalry.’ ‘The long-neglected and almost extinguished order of knight-errantry,’ Don Quixote (trans. Jarvis), Part I., Book IV. chap. 28. ‘Witch the world,’ etc. Henry IV., Part I., Act IV. Sc. 1. [109]. ‘Oh, what delicate wooden spoons,’ etc. Don Quixote, Part II., Book IV. chap. 67. The curate confidentially informing Don Quixote, etc. Ibid. Our adventurer afterwards, etc. Ibid. [110]. ‘Still prompts,’ etc. Pope, Essay on Man, IV. 3-4. ‘Singing the ancient ballad of Roncesvalles.’ Don Quixote, Part II., Book I. chap. 9. Marcella. Ibid. Part I., Book I. chaps. 12 and 13. His Galatea, etc. Galatea, 1585; Persiles and Sigismunda, 1616. [111]. Gusman D’Alfarache. By Mateo Aleman, published in 1599. Lazarillo de Tormes. Attributed to Diego Hurtado de Mendoza (1503-1575), published in 1553. Gil Blas. The Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane of Alain-René le Sage (1668-1747) appeared in 4 vols., 1715-1735. [112]. Smollett is more like Gil Blas. In the Preface to Roderick Random he admitted his obligation to Le Sage. [113]. Tom Jones. Published in 1749. [114]. ‘I was never so handsome,’ etc. Tom Jones, Book XVII. chap. 4. The story of Tom Jones, etc. Cf. the well-known dictum of Coleridge (Table Talk, July 5, 1834), ‘Upon my word, I think the Œdipus Tyrannus, the Alchemist, and Tom Jones, the three most perfect plots ever planned.’ Amelia and Joseph Andrews. Published in 1751 and 1742 respectively. Amelia, and the hashed mutton. Cf. Hazlitt’s essay ‘A Farewell to Essay-writing,’ from which it appears that the article in the Edinburgh Review from which this lecture is taken was the result of a ‘sharply-seasoned and well-sustained’ discussion with Lamb, kept up till midnight. [115]. Roderick Random. Published in 1748, when Smollett was 27; Tom Jones was published in 1749, when Fielding was 42. [116]. Intus et in cute. Persius, Satires, III. 30. [117]. Peregrine Pickle ... and Launcelot Graves. 1751 and 1762 respectively. Humphrey Clinker and Count Fathom. 1771 and 1753 respectively. Richardson. The three novels of Samuel Richardson (1689-1761) appeared as follows: Pamela in 1740; Clarissa Harlowe in 1747-8; Sir Charles Grandison in 1753. [119]. Dr. Johnson ... when he said, etc. Boswell’s Life of Johnson (ed. G. B. Hill), II. 174. [120]. ‘Books are a real world,’ etc. Wordsworth, Personal Talk, St. 3. Sterne. Laurence Sterne’s (1713-1768) Tristram Shandy appeared in 9 vols. 1759-1767, and A Sentimental Journey (2 vols.) in 1768. [121]. Goldsmith ... should call him, etc. Boswell’s Life of Johnson (ed. G. B. Hill), II. 222. [123]. ‘Have kept the even tenor of their way.’ Gray’s Elegy, 76. Evelina, Cecilia, and Camilla. By Frances Burney, Madame D’Arblay (1752-1840), published respectively in 1778, 1782, and 1796. Mrs. Radcliffe. Ann Radcliffe (1764-1822), author of The Romance of the Forest (1791), The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794), etc. ‘Enchantments drear.’ Il Penseroso, 119. Mrs. Inchbald. Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821), novelist, dramatist, and actress. Her Nature and Art appeared in 1796, A Simple Story in 1791. Miss Edgeworth. Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849). Castle Rackrent appeared in 1800. Meadows. In The Wanderer. Note. The Fool of Quality, by Henry Brooke (1766); David Simple, by Sarah Fielding (1744); and Sidney Biddulph, by Mrs. Sheridan (1761). [124]. It has been said of Shakspeare, etc. By Pope. See Hazlitt’s Characters of Shakespear’s Plays, vol. I. p. 171 and note. ‘There is nothing so true as habit.’ Windham, Speech on the Conduct of the Duke of York, Speeches, III. 205, March 14, 1809. [125]. ‘Stand so [not] upon the order,’ etc. Macbeth, Act III. Sc. 4. The green silken threads, etc. Don Quixote, Part II. IV. Chap. 58. The Wanderer. 1814. ‘The gossamer,’ etc. Romeo and Juliet, Act II. Sc. 6. [127]. The Castle of Otranto. By Horace Walpole (1764). Quod sic mihi, etc. Horace, Ars Poetica, 188. The Recess, by Sophia Lee (1785); The Old English Baron, by Clara Reeve, originally published in 1777 under the title of ‘The Champion of Virtue, a Gothic Story.’ ‘Dismal treatises.’ Macbeth, Act V. Sc. 5. The Monk, by Matthew Gregory Lewis, published in 1795 as ‘Ambrosio, or the Monk.’ ‘All the luxury of woe.’ Moore, Juvenile Poems, stanzas headed ‘Anacreontic,’ beginning ‘Press the grape, and let it pour,’ etc. [128]. ‘His chamber,’ etc. The Faerie Queene, Book II. Canto ix. St. 50. [129]. ‘Familiar in our mouths,’ etc. Henry V., Act IV. Sc. 3. [130]. The author of Caleb Williams. William Godwin (1756-1836). Caleb Williams appeared in 1794, St. Leon in 1799, Mandeville in 1817. ‘Action is momentary,’ etc. These lines are slightly misquoted from Wordsworth’s tragedy, The Borderer. See note to vol. IV., p. 276. [132]. Political Justice. An Inquiry concerning Political Justice and its Influence on Morals and Happiness, 1793. ‘Where his treasure,’ etc. St. Matthew, vi. 21.