In a vision once I saw:
It was an Abyssinian maid,
And on her dulcimer she play’d,
Singing of Mount Abora.”
‘We could repeat these lines to ourselves not the less often for not knowing the meaning of them.’
In a sketch of Coleridge which appeared in The Examiner for Oct. 21, 1821, Leigh Hunt quotes the lines from Kubla Khan (‘A damsel with a dulcimer,’ etc.) and says: ‘We could repeat such verses ... down a green glade, a whole summer’s morning’; but in spite of this and a few other verbal similarities, a comparison of the sketch with the review does not support the theory that the latter was written by Leigh Hunt. Possibly he wrote a few lines here and there, but the review as a whole is far more suggestive of Hazlitt.
SHAKESPEAR’S FEMALE CHARACTERS
No. XLIII. of the Round Table series. It is partly reproduced in Characters of Shakespear’s Plays. See especially the essays on Cymbeline and Othello (vol. I. 179 et seq. and 200 et seq. and notes).
[290]. Miss Peggy. See ante, p. 276. [291]. ‘Calls true love,’ etc. Romeo and Juliet, Act III. Sc. 2. [295]. ‘Books, dreams,’ etc. Personal Talk, ll. 33 et seq. Tate. Nahum Tate’s King Lear was brought out in 1681. ‘And her heart beats,’ etc. Troilus and Cressida, Act III. Sc. 2. [296]. ‘Sir, the fairest flowers,’ etc. A Winter’s Tale, Act IV. Sc. 4.