[51]. ‘To carve out dials,’ etc. 3 Henry VI., Act II. Sc. 5. [52]. ‘Morals on the time.’ Cf. As You Like it, Act II. Sc. 7. [54]. ‘How sweet the moonlight,’ etc. The Merchant of Venice, Act V. Sc. 1. The account given by Rousseau, etc. Hazlitt is probably referring to a somewhat similar story told in Les Confessions, Partie II. Livre XI.
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[60]. ‘To gild refined gold,’ etc. King John, Act IV. Sc. 2. ‘Faultless monsters.’ John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham, Essay on Poetry. [61]. The grand Cyruses, the Artamenes. Mlle. de Scudéry’s Artamène ou le Grand Cyrus was published in 10 vols., 1649–53. Oroondates. In La Calprenède’s Cassandra. ‘Mistress’ eyebrow.’ As You Like It, Act II. Sc. 7. [62]. ‘Be mine,’ etc. Gray, Letters (ed. Tovey), I. 97. ‘The Princess of Cleves.’ By Madame de la Fayette (1678). The Duke de Nemours. In La Princesse de Clèves. ‘Ugly all over,’ etc. See vol. II. (Life of Holcroft), note to p. 130. [64]. Narcissa and Emily Gauntlet. Narcissa in Roderick Random; Emily Gauntlet in Peregrine Pickle; Winifred Jenkins in Humphry Clinker. ‘Her heroes,’ etc. Cf. ‘Most women have no characters at all.’ Pope, Moral Essays, II. 2. Theodore, Valancourt. Theodore in The Romance of the Forest; Valancourt in The Mysteries of Udolpho. [65]. Miss Milner. Miss Milner and Dorriforth in A Simple Story (1791); Lord Norwynne in Nature and Art (1796). [67]. ‘All germins,’ etc. King Lear, Act III. Sc. 2. ‘Tears such as angels shed [weep].’ Paradise Lost, I. 620.
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[68]. ‘And of his port,’ etc. The Canterbury Tales. The Prologue, 69. ‘If you have not seen,’ etc. Cf. As You Like It, Act III. Sc. 2. [70]. ‘Fools rush in,’ etc. Pope, An Essay on Criticism, III. 625. [71]. ‘In peace,’ etc. Henry V., Act III. Sc. 1. [72]. ‘Gods of his idolatry.’ Cf. Romeo and Juliet, Act II. Sc. 2. [73]. ‘Will not have,’ etc. Cf. Coriolanus, Act II. Sc. 2. ‘Vix ea nostra voco.’ Ovid, Metam. XIII. 141.
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[78]. ‘Search then,’ etc. Pope, Moral Essays, III. 174–179. [82]. ‘Sown,’ etc. Cf. Middleton, The Witch, Act I. Sc. 2. [83]. Mr. F. Beckford sold Fonthill to John Farquhar in 1822. [86]. Note. ‘Men act from calculation,’ etc. Cf. Principles of Morals and Legislation, Ch. XIV. Sec. xxviii. Note. ‘A Mad World.’ etc. John Taylor, Wandering to see the Wonders of the West (1649). [88]. ‘Now all ye ladies,’ etc. These lines by Scott form the motto of chap. xii. of The Betrothed, where they are entitled ‘Family Quarrels.’ Note. ‘Have I not seen,’ etc. The Betrothed, chap. XII. Note. ‘I would take,’ etc. Hamlet, Act III. Sc. II. Note. Dr. Jamieson. John Jamieson (1759–1838), whose Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language appeared in 1808. [90]. ‘Some trick,’ etc. Coriolanus, Act IV. Sc. 4. [91]. Mr. Bartholine Saddletree. In The Heart of Midlothian. Peter Peebles. In Redgauntlet. The Baron of Bradwardine, etc. In Waverley. ‘The age of chivalry,’ etc. Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (Select Works, ed. Payne, II. 89). ‘Smack of honour.’ Macbeth, Act I. Sc. 2. [93]. ‘An ounce,’ etc. Cf. The Faerie Queene, I. iii. 30. [95]. ‘Masterless passion,’ etc. Cf. The Merchant of Venice, Act IV. Sc. 1.