CHAPTER V

October 5. No. VI. (October 6) in the newspaper, begins at the paragraph ‘The ordinary prejudice,’ etc., on p. [118].

If the French have a fault. A Sentimental Journey. Character, Versailles.

[115]. Jump at. Hamlet, Act I. Sc. 1.

[116]. The finest line in Racine. ‘Je crains Dieu, cher Abner, et n’ai point d’autre crainte.’ Athalie, Act I. Sc. 1.

[118]. Pleas’d with a feather [rattle]. Pope, Essay on Man, Ep. II. 275.

Marmontel’s Tales. Jean Francois Marmontel’s (1723–1799), Contes Moraux (1761), of which several editions have appeared in English.

[119]. Quickens, even with blowing. Othello, Act IV. Sc. 2.

The melancholy of Moorditch. 1 King Henry IV., Act I. Sc. 2.

[120]. Rousseau’s Emilius. Published 1762.