THE PRESS, Etc.
Hazlitt was a very frequent contributor to John Hunt’s ‘Weekly Miscellany,’ The Yellow Dwarf, which ran from Jan. 1 to May 23, 1818. Most of his contributions were included in Political Essays. See vol. III. pp. 254 et seq. Of those included in the present volume ‘The Opera’ was reprinted with some omissions and variations in Literary Remains, the rest are now republished for the first time, on the strength of what the editors regard as the conclusive internal evidence of Hazlitt’s authorship. All the essays are reprinted verbatim from the Magazine.
[411]. M. Jollivet. Jean Baptiste Moïse, Comte Jollivet (1753–1818), a prominent French politician. [412]. ‘Had’st thou believed,’ etc. Zapolya, Prelude, Sc. 1.
MR. COLERIDGE’S LECTURES
This course of Lectures began on Jan. 27, and ended on March 13, 1818. Hazlitt was lecturing on Poetry at the same time. For Coleridge’s prospectus see Lectures on Shakespeare (ed. Ashe), 170.
[416]. ‘Those fair parts,’ etc. Cf. Romeo and Juliet, Act II. Sc. 1. [417]. ‘Unhouselled,’ [unhoused] etc. Othello, Act I. Sc. 2. ‘This island’s mine,’ etc. The Tempest, Act I. Sc. 2. ‘Independently of his conduct,’ etc. Cf. vol. III. (Political Essays), p. 285. ‘He had peopled else,’ etc. The Tempest, Act I. Sc. 2. ‘Lunes and abstractions.’ Cf. The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act IV. Sc. 2. [418]. ‘Conquering and to conquer.’ Revelation vi. 2. Bertram. Cf. vol. X. p. 158, and ante, pp. 412–3. ‘Tedious and brief.’ A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act V. Sc. 1. ‘The man may indeed be a reviewer,’ etc. This saying does not seem to have been reported elsewhere. Coleridge and Wordsworth were often accused of ridiculing Southey’s poetical genius. [419]. ‘Fie, Sir!’ etc. Milman, Fazio, Act II. Sc. 1. ‘To leave this keen encounter,’ etc. Richard III., Act I. Sc. 2. ‘Reason [reasons] as plenty,’ etc. 1 Henry IV., Act II. Sc. 4. ‘The inconstant moon.’ Romeo and Juliet, Act II. Sc. 2. [420]. ‘His large discourse of reason,’ etc. Hamlet, Act IV. Sc. 4.
CHILDE HAROLD’S PILGRIMAGE
[420]. ‘I do perceive a fury,’ etc. Cf.
‘I do understand a fury in your words,
But not the words.’ Othello, Act IV. Sc. 2.