Published in Sketches and Essays (1839).
[521]. ‘Ever strong,’ etc. King John, Act III. Sc. 1. [522]. ‘In their generation,’ etc. Cf. S. Luke xvi. 8. ‘The milk of human kindness.’ Macbeth, Act I. Sc. 5. ‘Stuff o’ the conscience.’ Othello, Act I. Sc. 2. ‘Turned to the stroke,’ etc. Cowper, The Task, The Time-Piece, 324–5. [523]. ‘Though sun and moon,’ etc. Comus, 374–5. ‘To do a great right,’ etc. The Merchant of Venice, Act IV. Sc. 1. [524]. ‘The very arm,’ etc. Cf. Antony and Cleopatra, Act I. Sc. 5. ‘Entire affection scorneth [hateth],’ etc. The Faerie Queene, I. VIII. 40. ‘Our bane,’ etc. Addison, Cato, V. 1. ‘Screwed to the sticking place.’ Cf. Macbeth, Act I. Sc. 7. ‘Away to Heaven,’ etc. Romeo and Juliet, Act III. Sc. 1. [525]. ‘To grinning scorn.’
‘To bitter Scorn a sacrifice,
And grinning infamy.’
Gray, On a Distant Prospect of Eton College, 73–4.
THE PIRATE
Now republished for the first time on the strength of the internal evidence of Hazlitt’s authorship.
[531]. ‘So potent art.’ The Tempest, Act V. Sc. 1. ‘A far war-cry to Lochiel.’ ‘It is a far cry to Lochow’ is the old saying. [532]. That described by Mr. Coleridge. See Selections from Mr. Coleridge’s Literary Correspondence, No. I. Letter IV., ‘To a Junior Soph. at Cambridge,’ (Blackwood’s Magazine, Oct. 1821, X. 256), republished in Miscellanies, etc. (Bohn, ed. Ashe), pp. 246 et seq. ‘Guns,’ etc. Pope, Imitations of Horace, I. 26. ‘Hell itself,’ etc. Cf. The Tempest, Act I. Sc. 2. ‘There be land pirates, etc.’ Cf. The Merchant of Venice, Act I. Sc. 3. Multum abludit imago. Horace, Satires, II. iii. 320. [533]. ‘A brave man in distress.’ Macheath is described by Lucy as ‘a great man in distress.’ The Beggar’s Opera, Act III. Sc. 4.
PEVERIL OF THE PEAK
Now republished for the first time, as it appeared in the first copies of The London Magazine for February 1823. Before fifty copies had been sold, the second and third paragraphs,—from ‘There were two things that we used to admire,’ etc. to ‘Might not such a man have written the Scotch Novels?’ (see post, p. 538)—were suppressed. Shortly afterwards a writer in Blackwood’s Magazine, having obtained possession of one of the original copies, published this passage together with indignant comments. See Blackwood’s Magazine, August 1824, XVI. 180–1. The editor of The London Magazine replied to this attack in the number for October 1824, and stated that the review was by ‘a celebrated critic,’ and that the passage had been withdrawn out of respect, not fear. See Mr. Bertram Dobell’s Sidelights on Charles Lamb (pp. 205 et seq.). The suppressed passage is here reprinted from Blackwood’s Magazine.