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PAGE [131]. Sewell and Cross’s. Linen-drapers and silk-mercers, 44 and 45 Old Compton Street, Soho. The Bazaar. Established in 1815. ‘The Corinthian capitals,’ etc. Cf. Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France (Select Works, ed. Payne, II. 164). [132]. As I look down Curzon Street. The essay would seem to have been written at 40 Half-Moon Street, where Hazlitt lodged from 1827 to 1829. [133]. ‘Brothers of the groves.’ Cf. vol. VIII. note to p. 467. Mr. N——. Sketches and Essays prints ‘Northcote.’ ‘High Life Below Stairs.’ By James Townley (1714–1788), produced in 1759. Mr. C——.? Coleridge. Cassock. Sketches and Essays prints hassock. The fate of the footman, etc. See Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Epistle from Arthur Grey, the Footman, to Mrs. Murray. [134]. ‘Vine-covered hills,’ etc. From lines ‘Written in 1788’ by William Roscoe and parodied in The Anti-Jacobin. ‘As pigeons pick up peas.’ Cf. Love’s Labour’s Lost, V. 2. [135]. ‘No more—where ignorance,’ etc. Gray, On a Distant Prospect of Eton College. M. de Bausset. Louis François Joseph, Baron de Bausset (b. 1770), author of Mémoires anecdotiques sur l’intérieur du palais (1827–8). [136]. Wear green spectacles. These three words, which seem to have a personal application, were omitted in Sketches and Essays. Cf. post, p. 217.
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[137]. ‘The heaviest stone,’ etc. Sir T. Browne, Hydriotaphia, chap. IV. [138]. ‘That Mr. Moore,’ etc. Moore’s Life of Sheridan appeared in 1825. This sentence was omitted in Literary Remains. [139]. Note. ‘Such gain,’ etc. Cymbeline, Act III. Sc. 3. [140]. ‘Screw one’s courage,’ etc. Cf. Macbeth, Act I. Sc. 7. ‘As kind,’ etc. Dryden, The Hind and the Panther, I. 271. [141]. ‘Of formal cut.’ As You Like It, Act II. Sc. 7. The fair Aurora. Gil Blas, Livre IV. Monsieur de Very. See ante, note to p. 104. Apicius. Marcus Gabius Apicius, the notorious Roman epicure, referred to by Pliny, X. 48, 68, § 133. Amelia’s hashed mutton. Amelia, Book X. chap. V. [142]. ‘And ever,’ etc. L’Allegro, 135–6. ‘We called,’ etc. Cf. Colonel Jack, chap. 1. ‘The Colonel,’ etc. Ibid. The City Madam. See Massinger’s, The City Madam, III. 3. ‘Spanish Rogue.’ Hazlitt refers to Mateo Aleman’s Guzman de Alfarache (1599). Cf. vol. VIII. (Lectures on the Comic Writers), p. 111.
ON THE FEELING OF IMMORTALITY IN YOUTH
Republished with many omissions and variations in Literary Remains and Winterslow.
PAGE [150]. ‘Life is a pure flame,’ etc. Sir T. Browne, Hydriotaphia, chap. V. My brother’s. John Hazlitt (1767–1837), the miniature-painter. See Mr. W. C. Hazlitt’s Four Generations of a Literary Family, I. 210–18. [151]. ‘The vast,’ etc. Cf. ‘The wide, the unbounded prospect, lies before me.’ Addison, Cato, Act V. Sc. 1. ‘Bear a charmed life.’ Macbeth, Act V. Sc. 8. ‘Bidding,’ etc. Collins’s Ode, The Passions, 32. ‘This sensible,’ etc. Measure for Measure, Act III. Sc. 1. [152]. ‘Wine of life,’ etc. Cf. Macbeth, Act II. Sc. 3. ‘As in a glass darkly.’ Cf. 1 Corinthians xiii. 12. ‘So am not I.’ Sterne, Tristram Shandy, vol. V. chap. vii. Note. The Art of War (1795) by Joseph Fawcett (d. 1804), an early friend of Hazlitt’s. See vol. VI. (Table-Talk), 224–5 and Mr. W. C. Hazlitt’s Memoirs, etc., I. 75–79. [153]. ‘The feast of reason,’ etc. Pope, Imitations of Horace, Sat. I. 128. ‘Brave sublunary things.’ Cf. ‘Those brave translunary things.’ Michael Drayton, To Henry Reynolds. ‘The stockdove,’ etc. Cf. Thomson, The Castle of Indolence, I. St. 4. Note. ‘Had it not been,’ etc. Works, II. 254. Note. She says of Richardson. See Works, II. 285 et seq. and 222. Note. Monstrum ingens biforme. Cf. Æneid, III. 658. Note. ‘His spirits,’ etc. Works, II. 283. [156]. ‘The purple light of love.’ Gray, The Progress of Poesy, 41. ‘The Raphael grace,’ etc. Cf. ‘Match Raphael’s grace with thy loved Guido’s air. ‘Pope, Moral Essays, VIII. 36. ‘Gain new vigour,’ etc. Cowper, Charity, 104. [157]. ‘Beguile,’ etc. Cf. ‘Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time.’ As You Like It, Act II. Sc. 7. [158]. ‘Robbers.’ Schiller’s play, produced in 1782. ‘From the Dungeon,’ etc. Coleridge, Sonnet, ‘To the Author of The Robbers.’ Don Carlos. Schiller’s play (1787).
ON READING NEW BOOKS
Published with omissions in Sketches and Essays. The essay was written at Florence. See Mr. W. C. Hazlitt’s Memoirs, etc. II. 154.