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[167]. ‘A justly decried author.’ Locke, Third Letter to the Bishop of Worcester (Works, Bohn, II. 401). ‘Fame is no plant,’ etc. Lycidas, 78–82. [168]. ‘Harsh and crabbed.’ Comus, 476. Willich. Elements of the Critical Philosophy, etc., Translated by A. F. M. Willich, M.D., appeared in 1798. The Critique of Pure Reason had appeared in 1781. [171]. ‘And all this,’ etc. Ben Jonson, The Alchemist, Act II. Sc. 1.
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[174]. ‘A dark closet,’ etc. Cf. Locke’s Essay, II. xi. 17. ‘Drossy and divisible.’ Dryden, The Hind and the Panther, I. 319. [175]. Mrs. Salmon’s ... wax figures. An old established exhibition in Fleet Street, near Temple Bar. See The Spectator, No. 28. [176]. ‘Without form and void.’ Genesis i. 2. [179]. ‘Thrills in each nerve,’ etc. Cf. ante, note to p. 158. ‘Jove’s light’nings,’ etc. The Tempest, Act I. Sc. 2.
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At the end of this letter it was announced that ‘Another Letter on the Principles of Human Action will conclude this series.’ The promised Letter, however, does not seem to have been published.
[181]. ‘Peace to all such.’ Cf. ante, note to p. 84. Note. For Fearn’s book, see Table Talk, vol. VI. pp. 63–5; 260–2 and notes. [183]. ‘So from the root,’ etc. Cf. ante, note to p. 1. [186]. ‘Had oft been chased,’ etc. The Hind and the Panther, I. 5–8.
FINE ARTS.—BRITISH INSTITUTION
Hazlitt used a portion of this notice in the essay on ‘Fine Arts’ which he afterwards (1824) contributed to The Encyclopædia Britannica. See vol. IX., pp. 406–7. The British Institution was founded in 1805 at 52 Pall Mall and continued till 1866. The winter exhibition was of the works of living artists. A second notice, in The Morning Chronicle for Feb. 10, is probably by Hazlitt. It contains very brief comments on the less notable pictures, and is not reprinted here.
[188]. Mr. Bird’s Picture of Job. The painter was Edward Bird (1772–1819), elected a Royal Academician in 1815. [189]. Mr. Allston’s large picture. This picture by the ‘American Titian,’ Washington Allston (1779–1843), gained a prize of 200 guineas from the British Institution and is now at Philadelphia. [190]. Mr. Hilton’s Picture. By William Hilton (1786–1839), Royal Academician (1818). Mr. West’s Picture. For Benjamin West (1738–1820), who succeeded Reynolds (1792) as President of the Royal Academy, see vol. IX. (Essays on the Fine Arts), pp. 318 et seq. ‘Pure religion,’ etc. Wordsworth’s Sonnet, ‘O Friend! I know not which way I must look,’ etc. Society for the suppression of vice. Cf. vol. I. (The Round Table), p. 60 and note. Mr. Turner’s grand landscape. Now in the National Gallery and (wrongly) known as ‘Apuleia in search of Apuleius.’ The confusion seems to have arisen from a misreading by Turner of a story in Ovid’s Metamorphoses (XIV. 517 et seq.) which the picture was designed to illustrate. Lord Egremont’s picture. An engraving by Woollett of Claude’s ‘Jacob and Laban’ was in the possession of Lord Egremont at Petworth, and it is probably to this that Hazlitt refers. It was at Petworth that Turner painted the landscape in question. [191]. ‘Mercury and Herse.’ Exhibited in 1811. The Favourite Lamb. By William Collins (1788–1847).