The last paragraph, following this quotation, is the same as in The Spirit of the Age (vol. IV. pp. 352–3).
HAYDON’S CHRIST’S AGONY IN THE GARDEN
[483]. Matthews. Charles Mathews (1776–1835), the comedian, whose famous ‘At Homes’ Hazlitt refers to. ‘Sea, earth, and air.’ Cf. ‘And shot my being through earth, sea, and air.’ Coleridge, France, An Ode, 103. He bestrides his art, etc. Haydon was pleased with these words which he quoted in a letter to a friend extracted in Mr. W. C. Hazlitt’s Four Generations of a Literary Family (I. 234). Haydon wrongly refers to Hazlitt’s article as having appeared in The New Monthly Magazine. See also Haydon’s Life, etc. (ed. T. Taylor, I. 418), where, speaking of this picture, Haydon says ‘Except the Christ’s head and the St. John sleeping it was the worst picture ever escaped my pencil.’ ‘Ample room,’ etc. Gray, The Bard, 51. [484]. ‘A hand,’ etc. Donne, The Storm, 3–4. [485]. The celebrated Madonna, etc. See vol. IX. p. 67.
POPE, LORD BYRON, AND MR. BOWLES
For Byron’s Letters to Murray ‘On the Rev. Wm. L. Bowles’s Strictures on the Life and Writings of Pope’ and a full account of the controversy see Byron’s Letters and Journals (ed. Prothero), V. Appendix iii. Cf. a passage in Hazlitt’s essay ‘On the Aristocracy of Letters,’ vol. VI. (Table Talk), pp. 210, 223, and notes.
[487]. Jem Belcher. James Belcher (1781–1811), who defeated Andrew Gamble in 1800. In the Preface to his Tragedy. Marino Faliero. ‘A tale of bawdry.’ Hamlet, Act II. Sc. 2. [488]. ‘Our sweet voices.’ Coriolanus, Act II. Sc. 3. [489]. ‘Most small faults.’ Cf. King Lear, Act I. Sc. 4. ‘Ends of verse,’ etc. Butler, Hudibras, I. iii. 1011–2. [490]. ‘Sternhold and Hopkins had great qualms.’ The Earl of Rochester, On a Parish Clerk with a bad voice. [492]. ‘Full of wise saws,’ etc. As You Like It, Act II. Sc. 7. [494]. ‘So perfumed,’ etc. Antony and Cleopatra, Act II. Sc. 2. [495]. ‘Roaming the illimitable ocean wide.’ Cf. ‘Roaming the illimitable waters round.’ Wordsworth, The Female Vagrant, 175. ‘Ill at these numbers.’ Hamlet, Act II. Sc. 2. ‘Damnable iteration in him.’ 1 Henry IV., Act I. Sc. 2. ‘Keeps distance due.’ Paradise Lost, III. 578. [496]. ‘Luscious,’ etc. Othello, Act I. Sc. 3. The grand-daughters of Mr. Coutts. The two Misses Burdett, presumably the daughters of Sir Francis Burdett and therefore grand-daughters of Thomas Coutts the banker, were presented at court on May 3, 1821, but Hazlitt’s meaning is a little obscure. The Editor of the New Monthly Magazine. Campbell, the poet. ‘High arbiter,’ etc. Paradise Lost, II. 908–9. ‘All the art of art is flown.’ Cf. the note on ‘all the life of life was flown’ in vol. VI. (Table Talk), p. 24. [497]. ‘The stones and tower,’ etc. Cf. Peter Bell, 856 et seq.
ON CONSISTENCY OF OPINION
Published with some omissions in Winterslow (1850).
[508]. ‘Servetur ad imum,’ etc. Horace, Ars Poetica, 126–7. [509]. ‘It is the eye of childhood,’ etc. Macbeth, Act II. Sc. 2. ‘Where the treasure is,’ etc. S. Matthew vi. 21. ‘To be wise,’ etc. Cf. ‘Let it be virtuous to be obstinate.’ Coriolanus, V. 3. Mr. ——. Northcote, no doubt, who told Haydon that he was so delighted with the Catalogue that he ‘ordered a long candle and went to bed to read it in ecstasy.’ Life of Haydon (ed. T. Taylor), I. 376. [511]. ‘Sots,’ etc. Pope, An Essay on Man, IV. 215. ‘I had rather hear,’ etc. Cf. 1 Henry IV., Act III. Sc. 1. ‘Amaze the very faculties,’ etc. Hamlet, Act II. Sc. 2. [512]. Mr. Wordsworth has hardly, etc. This passage, down to ‘Constitutional Association-monger’ (p. 513) was omitted from Winterslow. ‘So small a drop,’ etc. Cymbeline, Act IV. Sc. 2. Applied for an injunction, etc. A hit at Southey. See vol. III. (Political Essays), pp. 192 et seq. and notes. One stroke of his prose-pen, etc. Hazlitt probably refers to Wordsworth’s Two Addresses to the Freeholders of Westmoreland, published in 1818. ‘The wreck of matter,’ etc. Addison, Cato, v. I. [514]. Contra audentior ito. Æneid, VI. 95. ‘Whose genius,’ etc. Cowper, The Task, The Garden, 255–6. ‘Like a worm,’ etc. Cf. ante, note to p. 506. ‘There’s sympathy.’ The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act II. Sc. 1. [515]. ‘Ancestral voices.’ Coleridge, Kubla Khan, 29.