This paper is signed ‘W. H.’
[358]. ‘Because thou art virtuous,’ etc. Twelfth Night, Act II. Sc. 3. [359]. ‘Seizing [tear] their pleasures,’ etc. Marvell, To his Coy Mistress. [360]. Ranting Croly. The Rev. George Croly (1780–1860), a contributor to Blackwood’s Magazine, and to Jerdan’s Literary Gazette. ‘Stretched upon the rack,’ etc. Cf.
‘Than on the torture of the mind to lie
In restless ecstasy.’ Macbeth, Act III. Sc. 2.
CHARLES KEAN
[362]. Young Mr. Kean. Charles John Kean (1811?–1868), second son of Edmund Kean. He had made his first appearance at the opening of the Drury Lane season, October 1, 1827. Lovers’ Vows. Mrs. Inchbald’s adaptation from Kotzebue (1798). The Marquis of Douro. Arthur Richard (1807–1884), eldest son of the Duke of Wellington, afterwards second Duke. [363]. We do not presume, etc. This adaptation of a passage from Burke’s A Letter to a Noble Lord (Works, Bohn, V. 114) is quoted elsewhere by Hazlitt. The Dumb Savoyard. By Thompson, acted thirty-eight times. [364]. Mrs. W. West. Mrs. W. West (1790–1876) who first appeared (as Miss Cooke) in London in 1812. She married William West in 1815. Meggy Macgilpin. Maggy Macgilpin in O’Keeffe’s Highland Reel (1788). Keeley. Robert Keeley (1793–1869). His height was five feet two inches. [365]. ‘A man made after supper,’ etc. 2 Henry IV., Act III. Sc. 2. ‘Vice to be hated,’ etc. Cf. Pope, Essay on Man, II. 217–18. [366]. Ecole des Veillards. By Casimir Delavigne (1823).
SOME OF THE OLD ACTORS
This notice is full of favourite quotations and of sentiments which Hazlitt had expressed elsewhere. See specially the Dramatic Essays in vol. VIII.
[366]. ‘Warbles,’ etc. L’ Allegro, 134. ‘Fierce extremes.’ Paradise Lost, II. 599. The Invincibles. A musical farce, acted 34 times. ‘Our mind’s eye.’ Cf. Hamlet, Act I. Sc. 2. ‘Our heart’s core.’ Cf. Ibid. Act III. Sc. 2. [367]. ‘Fancy’s midwife.’ Cf. ‘The fairies’ midwife.’ Romeo and Juliet, Act I. Sc. 4. ‘Gay creatures,’ etc. Comus, 299–301. ‘Tears,’ etc. Paradise Lost, I. 620. [368]. ‘Mr. Kean’s Othello,’ etc. From The Times. See post, p. 406, and vol. VIII. p. 414 and notes. ‘With kindliest change.’ Paradise Lost, V. 336.