Note. Dip it in the ocean. A Sentimental Journey, The Wig, Paris.
Note. Perilous stuff that weighs upon the heart. Macbeth, Act V. Sc. 3.
[136]. Like stars, shoot madly [start] from their spheres. Hamlet, Act I. Sc. 5.
Paul Guerin. Paulin Jean Baptiste Guérin, French portrait and historical painter (1783–1855); his chief work is the one of which Hazlitt speaks.
[137]. La Thiere. Guillaume Gillon Lethière, French historical painter (1760–1832), of Creole birth (Guadeloupe). At one time he was considered David’s rival.
The human face divine. Paradise Lost, III. 44.
Ducis. Louis Ducis (1773–1847), a pupil of David.
[138]. Magnis excidit ausis. Ovid, Met. II. 328.
CHAPTER VIII
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