PAGE [161]. Note. See vol. VIII. (Lectures on the Comic Writers), p. 22 and note. [162]. ‘Has just come,’ etc. Cf. Richard III., Act I. Sc. 1. [164]. A Manuscript of Cicero’s. Hazlitt probably refers to Cardinal Angelo Mai’s (1782–1854) discoveries. A Noble Lord. The Marquis of Blandford, who bought Valdarfer’s edition of Boccaccio for £2260 at the Roxburgh sale in 1812. Cf. ante, p. 43. Mr. Thomas Taylor. Thomas Taylor (1758–1835), the Platonist. The ‘old Duke of Norfolk’ (Bernard Edward, 12th Duke, 1765–1842) was his patron, and locked up nearly the whole of Taylor’s edition of Plato (5 vols., 1804) in his library. Ireland’s celebrated forgery. The main forgery, Vortigern, by William Henry Ireland, was produced at Drury Lane on April 2, 1796. Note. Mr. G. D.’s chambers. Lamb’s friend George Dyer (1755–1841) lived in Clifford’s Inn from 1792. His History of the University and Colleges of Cambridge, etc. was published in 2 vols. in 1814. In reference to the number of corrections in this work, Lamb spoke of Dyer as ‘Cancellarius Magnus.’ Note. Another friend of mine, etc. Leigh Hunt. See his essay ‘Jack Abbot’s Breakfast’ reprinted in Men, Women, and Books (1847). [166]. ‘Proud as when,’ etc. Cf. Troilus and Cressida, Act I. Sc. 3. [167]. ‘Like sunken wreck,’ etc. Cf. Henry V., Act I. Sc. 2. [168]. ‘Full of wise σατυς,’ etc. Cf. As You Like It, Act II. Sc. 7. ‘An insolent piece of paper.’ ‘A piece of arrogant paper.’ Massinger, A New Way to pay Old Debts, Act IV. Sc. 3. ‘Somewhat musty.’ Cf. ‘Something musty.’ Hamlet, Act III. Sc. 2. Longinus complains, etc. See Longinus, On the Sublime, IX. [169]. Irving’s orations. Cf. vol. IV. (The Spirit of the Age), p. 228. The Jew’s letters. Dr. Philip le Fanu published in 1777 a translation of the Abbé Guenée’s Lettres de certaines Juives à M. Voltaire. That Van Diemen’s Land of letters. These words were omitted in Sketches and Essays. Flocci-nauci, etc. Shenstone, Letter xxi. 1741 (Works, 1791, III. 49). ‘Flames in the forehead,’ etc. Lycidas, 171. [170]. Mr. Godwin composed an Essay, etc. Hazlitt perhaps refers to the letter added by ‘Edward Baldwin’ to his own English Grammar. See vol. VI. p. 388. Note. A certain poet. This note was omitted in Sketches and Essays. [171]. ‘By Heavens,’ etc. Wordsworth Sonnet, The world is too much with us.
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[174]. ‘Discourse of reason,’ etc. Loosely quoted from Hamlet. Cf. Act I. Sc. 2 and Act IV. Sc. 4. ‘The whole,’ etc. Cf. S. Matthew ix. 12. ‘As when,’ etc. Thomson, The Castle of Indolence, St. 64. [177]. ‘Yea, into our heart of hearts.’ Cf. Hamlet, Act III. Sc. 2. ‘The volumes,’ etc. Roscommon, Horace’s Art of Poetry. ‘That dallies,’ etc. Cf. Twelfth Night, Act II. Sc. 4. [178]. ‘Wit at the helm,’ etc. Cf. ‘Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm.’ Gray, The Bard, 74. [179]. A butt, according to the Spectator, etc. See The Spectator, No. 47. [181]. ‘Hew you,’ etc. Cf. Julius Cæsar, Act II. Sc. 1. Tempora, etc. Cf. Æneid, IV. 293–4. ‘Not to admire,’ etc. Pope, Imitations of Horace, Epistles I. vi. 1–2. The Westminster School of Reform. Hazlitt refers to the writers, including Bentham and James Mill, associated with The Westminster Review, founded in 1824. [182]. ‘Milk of human kindness.’ Macbeth, Act I. Sc. 5.
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PAGE [184]. ‘We work by wit,’ etc. Othello, Act II. Sc. 3. [185]. ‘Leaps at once,’ etc. Cowper, The Task, V. 686. ‘From Indus,’ etc. Pope, Eloisa to Abelard, 58. [187]. Hinc illæ lachrymæ. Horace, Epistles, I. xix. 41. [188]. ‘Constrained by mastery.’ Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, The Franklin’s Tale, 36; Wordsworth quotes the line in The Excursion, VI. 162–5. [189]. ‘Makes a sunshine,’ etc. The Faerie Queene, I. iii. 4. [190]. David’s and Girodet’s pictures. Jacques Louis David (1748–1825) and Anne Louis Girodet (1767–1824). ‘Potations, pottle-deep.’ Othello, Act II. Sc. 3. [192]. ‘In a phantasma,’ etc. Julius Cæsar, Act II. Sc. 1. ‘Courage,’ etc. Paradise Lost, I. 108. [193]. ‘His thoughts,’ etc. Cf. Ibid., IX. 467. Note. Strong passion, etc. Cf. The Rambler, No. 1. Note. ‘The lunatic,’ etc. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act V. Sc. 1. [194]. ‘Set but a Scotsman,’ etc. Cf. Burns, The Author’s Earnest Cry and Prayer, Postscript, St. 4. ‘And it alone,’ etc. Cf. Twelfth Night, Act I. Sc. 1. ‘We read his works.’ Lamb’s Essay ‘On the Genius and Character of Hogarth’ (Works, ed. E. V. Lucas, I. 71).
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‘Ha! here be,’ etc. King Lear, Act III. Sc. 4. ‘If I were not Alexander,’ etc. The saying is given by Plutarch. Note. Zoffani. Johann Zoffany, or Zaufelly (1733–1810). Note. Reynolds’s Speculation. A comedy by Frederick Reynolds, produced in 1795. George III. was much amused by it. See Life of Reynolds, II. 208–210. [199]. ‘Wishing to be,’ etc. Cf. Shakespeare, Sonnet XXIX. ‘The rub,’ etc. Cf. Hamlet, Act III. Sc. 1. ‘Put off,’ etc. Ibid. [200]. ‘What more felicity,’ etc. Spenser, Muiopotmos, St. 27. [201]. ‘That something,’ etc. Cf. Pope, An Essay on Man, IV. 3–4. ‘Very choice Italian.’ Hamlet, Act III. Sc. 2. ‘Vows,’ etc. Cf. Paradise Lost, IV. 97. ‘The native hue,’ etc. Cf. Hamlet, Act III. Sc. 1. [202]. ‘Shut up,’ etc. Macbeth, Act II. Sc. 1. ‘I’d sooner,’ etc. Cf. Julius Cæsar, Act IV. Sc. 3. Sir Thomas Lethbridge. A sturdy Tory, member for Somersetshire. He is possibly the L—— referred to in vol. VI. (Table-Talk), p. 94. Though a staunch Protectionist, he voted for Reform and Catholic Emancipation. [203]. ‘Ethereal braid,’ etc. See vol. IV. (The Spirit of the Age), note to p. 216. Had I been a lord I should have married, etc. This sentence and the next were omitted in Winterslow. [204]. ‘Give me,’ etc. Cf. 3 Henry VI., Act I. Sc. 4. ‘Monarchise,’ etc. Richard II., Act III. Sc. 2. ‘Tenth transmitters,’ etc. Richard Savage, The Bastard. ‘In the catalogue,’ etc. Cf. Macbeth, Act III. Sc. 1. ‘Swinish multitude.’ Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (Select Works, ed. Payne, II. 93). [205]. ‘The fair,’ etc. Cf. As You Like It, Act III. Sc. 2. The person who bought Punch. Cf. post, p. 353. [206]. Why will Mr. Cobbett, etc. Cobbett had recently (1826) unsuccessfully contested Preston. The bird described by Chaucer. See Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Manciple’s Tale, 59 et seq., and The Squiere’s Tale, 603 et seq. You say there is a common language, etc. These words, down to ‘And he will laugh in your face,’ were omitted in Winterslow. [207]. ‘A certain tender bloom,’ etc. Cf. ‘A certain tender gloom o’erspread his face.’ Thomson, The Castle of Indolence, I. St. 57. [208]. ‘Stuff o’ the conscience.’ Othello, Act I. Sc. 2. ‘Laggard age.’ Collins, Ode, The Passions, 112. [209]. Like Benvenuto Cellini, etc. See Life of Benvenuto Cellini, Part II. lxxviii.