[405]. This young debutante. Her name was Mrs. Robinson. [406]. Mr. Kean’s Othello, etc. This passage, to the end of the notice, was quoted more than once by Hazlitt. Cf. ante, p. 368 and vol. VIII. p. 414 and notes.
KEAN AND MISS O’NEILL
Cf. this with Hazlitt’s appreciation of Miss O’Neill in The London Magazine, vol. VIII. of the present edition, pp. 392 et seq.
[407]. ‘O’erstep the modesty,’ etc. Hamlet, Act III. Sc. 2. [408]. ‘As one in suffering all,’ etc. Ibid. ‘Abide the beating,’ etc. Twelfth Night, Act II. Sc. 4.
THE HONEY MOON
[409]. ‘What is set down for him.’ Hamlet, Act III. Sc. 2. ‘Plautus was too light,’ etc. Cf. Hamlet, Act II. Sc. 2. ‘And near him,’ etc. Collins, Ode on the Poetical Character, 43–4. ‘Grew sharp as a pen.’ Henry V., Act II. Sc. 3. [410]. ‘Go thou,’ etc. S. Luke x. 37.
MR. KEAN
[410]. ‘Not Fate itself could awe.’ Richard III. (Cibber’s version), Act V. Sc. 3.
KING JOHN
[411]. ‘To me,’ etc. King John, Act III. Sc. 1.