[538]. ‘Thinly scattered,’ etc. Romeo and Juliet, Act V. Sc. 1. ‘He knows all qualities,’ etc. Othello, Act III. Sc. 3. ‘The wisest,’ etc. Cf. Pope, An Essay on Man, IV. 282.
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These were first republished by Mr. W. C. Hazlitt in Bohn’s Standard Library (1871) in the volume containing The Round Table, etc. They originally appeared in The Literary Examiner on the following dates in 1823, viz.: Nos. I.–XVIII., September 6; Nos. XIX.–XLV., September 13; Nos. XLVI.–LIII., October 11; Nos. LIV.–LIX., October 25; Nos. LX.–LXI., November 8; Nos. LXII.–LXXIII., November 15; Nos. LXXIV.–LXXV., November 22; Nos. LXXVI.–LXXXII., November 29; Nos. LXXXIII.–LXXXVII., December 13.
[547]. ‘According to our own deserts,’ etc. Hamlet, Act II. Sc. 2. ‘The true fuller’s earth,’ etc. Cf. ‘For time, like fuller’s earth, takes out each stain.’ Peter Pindar, Lyric Odes, VII. 14. The taste of the great in pictures, etc. Cf. vol. VII. (The Plain Speaker) pp. 292–4, where the whole paragraph is repeated.
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[2]. These two essays were published together in Winterslow as ‘Mind and Motive.’
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[4]. This paper did not appear in The Edinburgh (New Scots) Magazine. See post, note to p. 459.