[202]. A Portrait of a Youth. The famous ‘Blue Boy’ belonging to the Duke of Westminster, painted in 1779.
MR. KEMBLE’S PENRUDDOCK
This theatrical notice is clearly Hazlitt’s, though he omitted it from A View of the English Stage. Cf. vol. I. (Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays), p. 237, where the same words are used, with trifling variations, in criticism of Kemble’s Hamlet. Cf. also vol. VIII. p. 376.
[205]. Penruddock. In Richard Cumberland’s The Wheel of Fortune (1795). [206]. ‘Is whispering nothing,’ etc. A Winter’s Tale, Act I. Sc. 2. [207]. ‘There is no variableness,’ etc. St. James i. 17. ‘Splenetic [splenetive] and rash.’ Hamlet, Act V. Sc. 1. ‘The fiery soul,’ etc. Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, l. 156–8. ‘You shall relish,’ etc. Cf. Othello, Act II. Sc. 1.
INTRODUCTION TO AN ACCOUNT OF SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS’S DISCOURSES
Hazlitt contributed to The Champion six papers on the ‘Character of Sir Joshua Reynolds.’ The first two of these (Oct. 30 and Nov. 6. 1814) were used in the author’s Encyclopædia Britannica essay on ‘Fine Arts.’ See vol. IX. of the present edition, pp. 377 et seq., and the notes, where the omitted portions of the two articles are supplied. The last four (viz. the present essay and the three succeeding ones) are here reprinted for the first time. Hazlitt afterwards dealt with the same subject in the two essays entitled ‘On Certain Inconsistencies in Sir Joshua Reynolds’s Discourses’ (vol. VI. Table Talk, pp. 122–145).
[208]. Note. For Richardson see vol. VI. (Table Talk), p. 10 and note. Charles Antoine Coypel (1694–1752) was Director of the Academy from 1747. His Discourses on Art were republished in 1883 by H. Jouin (Conférences de l’Académie royale de peinture).
ON GENIUS AND ORIGINALITY
[211]. If Raphael, for instance, had only copied, etc. See Reynolds’s Twelfth Discourse. [212]. ‘Sole sitting,’ etc. Wordsworth, Poems on the Naming of Places, IV. ‘Beauty, rendered still more beautiful.’ Cf.
‘——And he would gaze till it became