The icy fang and season’s difference. As You Like it, Act II. Sc. 1.
Mr. Theodore Hook. Theodore Edward Hook (1788–1841), novelist and political writer, the Lucian Gay of ‘Coningsby,’ and editor of the Tory ‘John Bull’ newspaper.
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[186]. Here was sympathy. The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act II. Sc. 1.
De Stutt—Tracey’s ‘Idéologie.’ Antoine Louis Claude Comte Destutt de Tracy’s (1754–1836), Élémens d’Idéologie was published in 1817–1818.
Mignet’s French Revolution. François-Auguste-Marie Mignet’s (1796–1884) Histoire de la Révolution Française was published in 1824.
Sayings and Doings. Nine novels of Theodore Hook, published 1826–1829.
Irving’s Orations. Probably Edward Irving’s Four Orations for the Oracles of God, published in 1823, a third edition of which was issued in the following year. Cf. vol. iv. The Spirit of the Age, p. 228.
The Paris edition of ‘Table Talk.’ See vol. VI. Bibliographical Note to Table Talk.
[187]. Note. Mr. Canning’s ‘faithlessness.’ He had the reputation for preferring devious paths. ‘I said of him “that his mind’s-eye squinted,”’ wrote Croker to Lord Brougham, March 1839. See the Croker Papers, vol. II. p. 352.