[81]. See vol. I. p. 218–221.
[82]. Acts xix. 28.
[83]. To the line ‘And to the ragged infant threaten war,’ Hazlitt appends the footnote, ‘This is a pleasing line; because the unconsciousness to the mischief in the child is a playful relief to the mind, and the picturesqueness of the imagery gives it double point and naiveté.’
[84]. To the line ‘See them beneath the dog-stars raging heat,’ Hazlitt has a footnote: ‘This seems almost a parody on the lines in Shakespeare. “Not all these, laid in bed majestical,” etc. [Henry V., Act IV. Sc. 1, ll. 284–297.] Who shall decide where two such authorities disagree!’
[85]. 1 Henry IV., Act III. Sc. 1.
[86]. To the line ‘Or wipes the tear that stagnates in his eyes,’ Hazlitt adds a footnote: ‘And the motion unsettles a tear.—Wordsworth.’ [The Convict, (Lyrical Ballads) l. 42.]
[87]. The Parish Register, I. 107–10.
[88]. Ibid. I. 230–1.
[89]. The Parish Register, I. 301–4.
[90]. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act IV. Sc. 1.