From The Edinburgh Magazine, December 1817.
The full title was—Remarks on Mr. West’s Picture of Death on the Pale Horse and on his Descriptive Catalogue which accompanies it.
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[318]. It sets on a quantity of barren spectators. Hamlet, Act III. Sc. 2.
High endeavour and the glad success. Cowper, The Task, V. 901.
[319]. So shall my anticipation. Hamlet, Act II. Sc. 2.
319. Like Bayes in the ‘Rehearsal.’ A farce by George Villiers, second Duke of Buckingham, 1671.
[320]. Spoken with authority and not as the scribes. S. Mark i. 22.
[321]. Another enemy of the human race. The phrase is applied to Buonaparte. See vol. VIII. A View of the English Stage, p. 284.
Grin horrible a ghastly smile. Paradise Lost, II. 146.