[317]. Mr. Hogg’s Jacobite Relics. Published in 2 vols. in 1819. In the Introduction Hogg says, ‘And now, when the horrors of the Catholic religion have ceased to oppress the minds of men, there is but one way of thinking on the rights of the Stuarts throughout the realm.’ A Popish Priest. Guy Fawkes (1570–1606) was not a priest. [318]. Which Mr. Hogg treats, etc. Hazlitt seems to be referring to the general sense of the Introduction to The Jacobite Relics. ‘The best of cut-throats.’ Macbeth, Act III. Sc. 4. [319]. Regulus. The stories of the self-sacrifice of Regulus and of Codrus, the last King of Athens, are familiar. [320]. ‘The compunctious visitings of nature.’ Macbeth, Act I. Sc. 5. ‘The spirit is willing,’ etc. S. Matthew xxvi. 41.
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[323]. ‘The infinite agitation of wit.’ Bacon, Advancement of Learning, Book I. iv. 5. ‘The soul of goodness,’ Henry V., Act IV. Sc. 1. [324]. ‘According to knowledge,’ Romans x. 2. ‘A consummation,’ etc. Hamlet, Act III. Sc. 1. ‘A king is but a king [man],’ etc. Reflections on the Revolution in France (Select Works, ed. Payne, II. 90). ‘As the vine,’ etc. Paradise Lost, IV. 307. [325]. ‘Through the airy region,’ etc. Romeo and Juliet, Act II. Sc. 2. [326]. Note. ‘As men should serve a cucumber,’ etc. The Beggar’s Opera, Act I. Sc. 1. [327]. ‘Bears a charmed life.’ Macbeth, Act V. Sc. 8. ‘All mortal consequences.’ Ibid. Act V. Sc. 3. ‘Set duty in one eye,’ etc. Julius Cæsar, Act I. Sc. 2. ‘Set but a Scotsman,’ etc. Burns, The Author’s Earnest Cry and Prayer, etc., Postscript. ‘Happy warrior.’ See Wordsworth’s Character of a Happy Warrior (1807).
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[328]. The Cid. Southey’s translation of the Chronicle of the Cid was published in 1808. [332]. Mr. Kean. An American lion was presented to Kean by Sir Edward Tucker. Barry Cornwall (Life of Edmund Kean, II. 135) says that ‘it amused the tragedian (who was fond of simple pleasures) to allure his acquaintance into the room, and set them face to face with the beast.’ ‘Masterless passion,’ etc. Cf. The Merchant of Venice, Act IV. Sc. 1. ‘The shot of accident,’ etc. Othello, Act IV. Sc. 1. [333]. Like Hotspur. 1 Henry IV., Act II. Sc. 4. Regnault de St. Jean Angely. Michel Louis Étienne, Comte Regnaud de Saint Jean D’Angely (1762–1819), a well-known politician of the Revolution and under Buonaparte. The reference seems to be to his conduct in 1814 when in command of the National Guard at Paris. [333]. ‘Be mine to read,’ etc. Gray, Letter to West (Letters, ed. Tovey, I. 97). ‘From worldly care,’ etc. The Faerie Queene, I. IV. 20.
CHARACTER OF MR. CANNING
This essay was included in the Paris edition (1825) and subsequent editions of The Spirit of the Age. See vol. IV. p. 186.
[334]. ‘The child,’ etc. Wordsworth, ‘My heart leaps up,’ etc. ‘Like as the sun-burnt Indians,’ etc. The Faerie Queene, III. XII. 8. [336]. ‘Like the morn,’ etc. Paradise Lost, V. 310–311. ‘Scylla heard,’ etc. Cf. Comus, 257–259. ‘The nation’s Great Divan.’ Cf. ‘August divan of the British Senate.’ H. Walpole, Letters (1857), IV. 130. [337]. Reply to Sir John Coxe Hippesley. On March 11, 1813. Speeches, ed. Therry, III. 396. [338]. ‘The worse the better reason.’ Paradise Lost, II. 113–4. ‘That makes these odds all even.’ Measure for Measure, Act III. Sc. 1. ‘He aggravates,’ etc. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act I. Sc. 2. ‘Quite chopfallen.’ Cf. Hamlet, Act V. Sc. 1. [339]. ‘The inimitable satire of Cervantes.’ See Canning’s Plymouth speech, October 1823. [340]. ‘Pluck out the heart,’ etc. Hamlet, Act III. Sc. 2. ‘The deliverance of mankind.’ Cf. Southey, Carmen Triumphale. ‘Of his port,’ etc. Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, Prologue, 69. ‘Freezes his spirits up,’ etc. Cf. 2 Henry IV., Act I. Sc. 1. [341]. Described so well, etc. In his speech on receiving the freedom of Plymouth, October 1823. ‘The golden round,’ etc. Cf. Richard II., Act III. Sc. 2. ‘And to call evil good,’ etc. Isaiah v. 20. ‘Revered and ruptured Ogden.’ For this famous phrase, used during the debates on the Indemnity Bill, 1818, see Hansard, XXXVII. 1026, and Stapleton’s Political Life of Canning, I. 86. Rejected Addresses. By James and Horace Smith, published in 1812. ‘Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin.’ Republished (1801) from The Anti-Jacobin. [342]. ‘To turn what is serious,’ etc. Cf. ‘What should be great, you turn to farce.’ Prior, The Ladle, 139. Note. See The Three Trials of William Hone (1818, First Trial, pp. 38–9), where a verse of Jekyll’s parody is quoted from The Spirit of the Journals. Note. ‘A wit’s a feather,’ etc. Pope, An Essay on Man, IV. 247–8.
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This essay, now republished for the first time, is attributed to Hazlitt by Mr. W. C. Hazlitt (Memoirs, etc., I. xxix) and by Ireland (List of the Writings of William Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt, p. 76). The MS., in Hazlitt’s hand-writing, is still in existence.