[369]. Mr. Peake. Richard Brinsley Peake (1792–1847). The farce here noticed is called by Genest ‘Little Offerings.’ ‘Crabbed age,’ etc. The Passionate Pilgrim, Stanza XII. Miss Goward. Mary Ann Goward (1805?–1899), who afterwards became so well known as Mrs. Keeley. She married Keeley in 1829. [370]. Madame Caradori. Madame Caradori-Allan (1800–1865), who made her début at the Italian Opera in London in 1822. Mademoiselle Sontag. Henriette Sontag (1806–1854). She married Count Rossi in 1828 and retired from the stage till near the end of her life. [371]. Brocard. Suzanne Brocard (1798–1855), whose first appearance at the Comédie Française was in 1817 and who retired in 1839. [372]. Lord Byron and his Contemporaries. Cf. ante, note to p. 355. ‘The mob,’ etc. Pope, Imitations of Horace, Book II. Ep. I. 108.
THE BEGGAR’S OPERA
[373]. ‘Vanity, chaotic Vanity.’ Hazlitt may have had in mind the lines in Romeo and Juliet (Act I. Sc. 1), ‘O heavy lightness! serious vanity! misshapen chaos!’ [374]. ‘Waste her sweetness,’ etc. Cf. Gray’s Elegy, 56. Splenetic ‘[splenitive] and rash.’ Hamlet, Act V. Sc. 1. Blanchard. William Blanchard (1769–1835), for long a member of the Covent Garden Company. ‘And when the date,’ etc. Butler, Hudibras, Part I. Canto 1. 285–6. De Vere. By Robert Plumer Ward (1765–1846), published in 1827. It was supposed by some, though denied by the author, that De Vere was intended to represent Canning. ‘We have heard,’ etc. 2 Henry IV., Act III. Sc. 2. [375]. Sir John Sylvester. Sir John Silvester (1745–1822), Recorder of London. ‘The thief,’ etc. Leviathan, Part I. Chap. 3. A Race for Dinner. By G. H. B. Rodwell (1800–1852). ‘And Birnam wood,’ etc. Macbeth, Acts IV. and V. The Poor Gentleman. By George Colman the Younger (1801).
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW AND L’AVARE
[377]. ‘The lungs of others,’ etc. Cf. As You Like It, Act II. Sc. 7. [378]. Mr. Wilkie failed, etc. See ante, p. 252. ‘Warble, warble.’ As You Like It, Act II. Sc. 5. [379]. Mademoiselle Mars. For Mademoiselle Mars in ‘a sort of shadowy Catherine and Petruchio,’ see vol. IX. p. 151. [380]. Ninette à la cour. By Charles Simon Favart (1710–1792). [381]. Seraglio. An opera by Dimond, produced in 1827. Charles the Second. By Howard Payne, produced in 1824.
MRS. SIDDONS
[381]. Pie Voleuse. See ante, note to p. 304. ‘Born to converse,’ etc. Cf. Pope, Prologue to the Satires, 196. The Fall of Nineveh. By John Martin (1789–1854). The painting was being exhibited in Bond Street. [382]. Abridged Paradise Lost. Mrs. Siddons published The Story of our First Parents selected from Milton’s Paradise Lost for the use of young persons, 1822. A triumphant peroration, etc. Hazlitt no doubt refers to Scott’s Life of Napoleon, published in 1827. ‘The worst, the second fall of man.’ Cf. William Windham, Speeches, II. 47 (Nov. 4, 1801). [384]. ‘Barren spectators.’ Hamlet, Act III. Sc. 2. Mr. Stanfield’s landscape back-grounds. William Clarkson Stanfield (1793–1867). Veluti in speculum. Cf. ‘Inspicere tamquam in speculum in vitas omnium,’ etc. Terence, Adelphi, Act III. Sc. 3.
THE THREE QUARTERS, Etc.
[384]. The new comedy. Ups and Downs, or the Ladder of Life was the title of the piece here noticed by Hazlitt. It was acted eight times. The secretary of the Admiralty, etc. Croker. Cf. ante, p. 344. [385]. A nice distinction in Miss Burney. See her Cecilia. Killing no Murder. A farce by Theodore Hook, produced in 1809. [386]. ‘Like dew-drops,’ etc. Troilus and Cressida, Act III. Sc. 3. ‘Fine by degrees,’ etc. Prior, Henry and Emma, 430. ‘They best can paint them,’ etc. Pope, Eloisa to Abelard, 366. Lord Porchester’s tragedy. Don Pedro, King of Castile, by Lord Porchester, afterwards 3rd Earl of Carnarvon (1800–1849) was produced at Drury Lane on March 10, 1828. Lord Morpeth’s. Lord Morpeth, afterwards 7th Earl of Carlisle (1802–1864) published in 1828 The Last of the Greeks; or the Fall of Constantinople, a tragedy in verse.