SELF-LOVE AND BENEVOLENCE
These two papers were republished in Sketches and Essays (1839), but were omitted in the second edition (1852). Mr. W. C. Hazlitt restored them in his edition in Bohn’s Standard Library, where he states that they were written in Italy in 1825, and represent a conversation between the author, Landor and Captain Medwin.
PAGE [96]. ‘Sound significant.’ Hazlitt was perhaps thinking of Milton’s words, ‘the sound symphonious.’ Paradise Lost, VII. 558. ‘These needs,’ etc. Hamlet, Act I. Sc. 5. [99]. ‘Nihil humani,’ etc. Terence, Heauton-Timoroumenos, I. 1. ‘Greater love,’ etc. Cf. St. John XV. 13. [102]. ‘Letting I should not,’ etc. Cf. Macbeth, Act I. Sc. 7. [104]. ‘Throw honour,’ etc. Cf. Ibid. Act V. Sc. 3.
THE FREE ADMISSION
Now republished for the first time. See Mr. W. C. Hazlitt’s Memoirs, etc., I. xxx.
[120]. ‘Loop-holes of retreat.’ Cowper, The Task, IV. 88. [121]. ‘He is all ear and eye,’ etc. Cf. Comus, 560–2. ‘The fly,’ etc. The Beggar’s Opera, Act II. Sc. 2. ‘Oh! leave me,’ etc. Cf. Gray, The Vegtam’s Kivitha. My beloved corner. See Mr. W. C. Hazlitt’s Memoirs, etc., I. 205. ‘The arm-chair at an inn. ‘A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity.’ Johnson (Boswell’s Life, ed. G. B. Hill, II. 452, note 1). ‘Witching time of night.’ Hamlet, Act III. Sc. 2. ‘Like bees in spring-time,’ etc. Paradise Lost, I. 768–9. [122]. ‘A discipline of humanity.’ Bacon (Essays, ‘Of Marriage and Single Life’) applies the phrase to wife and children. Hazlitt himself applies it to books (vol. I. The Round Table, p. 123). ‘Retire, the world shut out,’ etc. Young, Night Thoughts, IX. ‘Still, small voice.’ 1 Kings xix. 12. Miss Ford. Hazlitt refers to Miss Forde as Cherry in The Beaux Stratagem (revived Covent Garden, Dec. 31, 1828). In Lectures on the Comic Writers (VIII. 88) he refers to the dialogue in Act III. Sc. 2 as a ‘love catechism.’ Mrs. Humby. Mrs. Humby (fl. 1817–1849) played Luise in Planché’s The Green-eyed Monster at the Haymarket, Aug. 18, 1828. Wilkinson played Krout. Mrs. Goodall’s Rosalind. Charlotte Goodall, after acting at Bath, made her first appearance in London (Drury Lane, Oct. 2, 1788) as Rosalind. Nothing is known of her after 1813, when she was divorced. [122]. ‘Blow, blow,’ etc. As You Like It, Act II. Sc. 7. ‘Strut and fret,’ etc. Macbeth, Act V. Sc. 5. [123]. ‘See o’er the stage,’ etc. Cf. Thomson, The Seasons, Winter, 646–8. ‘Takes his ease.’ Cf. 1 Henry IV., Act III. Sc. 3. [124]. ‘All that mighty heart,’ etc. Cf. Wordsworth’s Sonnet, Earth has not anything to shew more fair, etc. ‘Thy freedom,’ etc. Cf. ‘Thy beauty hath made me effeminate.’ Romeo and Juliet, Act III. Sc. 1. ‘Teddy the Tiler.’ A farce by G. H. B. Rodwell (1800–1852), produced at Covent Garden, Feb. 8, 1830. ‘Robert the Devil.’ A ‘Musical Romance’ by Raymond, produced at Covent Garden, Feb. 2, 1830. ‘What avails,’ etc. The Rev. Sneyd Davies, To the Honourable and Reverend F. C. (Dodsley, A Collection of Poems, VI. 138). ‘The frozen winter,’ etc. Hazlitt is quoting loosely from Paradise Lost, IV. 267–8. Cowley’s Gallery. The reference is to Cowley’s The Chronicle.
THE SICK CHAMBER
First republished in the volume of Selections edited by Mr. Ireland, who states, apparently upon the evidence of dates and the nature of the subject, that this was the last essay which Hazlitt wrote. This cannot be certainly known, and it seems more likely that the essay on ‘Personal Politics’ (post, pp. 456–61) was written later. The essay on ‘Footmen’ appeared in a later number of the New Monthly. Hazlitt died on Sept. 18, 1830.
PAGE [125]. ‘The body of this death.’ Romans vii. 24. ‘Cooped and cabined in.’ Cf. Macbeth, Act III. Sc. 4. ‘Peep through the blanket,’ etc. Macbeth, Act I. Sc. 5. ‘A consummation,’ etc. Hamlet, Act III. Sc. 1. [126]. Hoc erat in votis. Horace, Satires, II. vi. 1. ‘Our very gorge,’ etc. Cf. Hamlet, Act V. Sc. 1. ‘Hermit poor,’ etc. These lines are quoted in Lamb’s John Woodvil, Act V. ‘Vows made in pain’ etc. Paradise Lost, IV. 97. ‘The Devil,’ etc. This old proverb is quoted by Rabelais, Liv. IV. Chap. 24. [127]. ‘Like life and death,’ etc. Cf. Lamb, John Woodvil, Act II. ‘Trouble deaf Heaven,’ etc. Cf. Shakespeare’s Sonnets, No. XXIX. ‘Moralise our complaints,’ etc. Cf. As You Like It, Act II. Sc. 1. ‘They have drugged,’ etc. Cf. Macbeth, Act II. Sc. 2. ‘Puzzling o’er the doubt.’ Cf. Cowper, The Needless Alarm, 77–78. [128]. ‘Like Samson,’ etc. Cowper, The Task, V. 737. ‘The worst of every evil,’ etc. Cf. Temistocle, Act III. Sc. 2. [129]. ‘A world,’ etc. Cf. Wordsworth, Personal Talk, l. 34. ‘A foregone conclusion.’ Othello, Act III. Sc. 3. [130]. ‘We see the children,’ etc. Cf. Wordsworth, Ode, Intimations of Immortality, 170–1. Paul Clifford. Bulwer’s Paul Clifford appeared in 1830. ‘Lively,’ etc. Coriolanus, Act IV. Sc. 5. ‘The true pathos,’ etc. Burns, Epistle to Dr. Blacklock.