[235] ‘One entire,’ etc. Othello, Act V. Sc. 2 Blue hills. Cf. vol. VI. (Table-Talk), p. 256. [236]. ‘I should notice,’ etc. A long passage from this point to ‘accumulate to a tolerable sum’ (p. 237) was omitted from Sketches and Essays. From —— to ——. Sketches and Essays reads ‘From Wem to Shrewsbury.’ Cf. My First Acquaintance with Poets, post, p. 260. ‘And by the vision splendid,’ etc. Cf. Wordsworth’s Ode, Intimations of Immortality, 73–74. ‘What though the radiance,’ etc. Ibid. 179–82. ‘Like morn,’ etc. Cf. Paradise Lost, v. 310–11. And may he not yet greet the yellow light, etc. Cf. post, p. 271. ‘And from his neck so free,’ etc. The Ancient Mariner, 289–91. [238]. Vangoyen. Jan Van Goyen (1596–1666), one of whose landscapes, it would seem, Hazlitt had copied. ‘The slow canal,’ etc. Goldsmith, The Traveller, 293–4. ‘While with an eye,’ etc. Wordsworth, Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey, 47–49. ‘The secrets,’ etc. Cf. Hamlet, Act I. Sc. 5. ‘Entire affection,’ etc. Cf. The Faerie Queene, I. viii. 40. ‘His shame,’ etc. Cf. Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, 412. ‘Made good digestion,’ etc. Cf. Macbeth, Act III. Sc. 4. [239]. An ingenious friend and arch-critic. ? Jeffrey. ‘More germain [germane],’ etc. Hamlet, Act V. Sc. 2. [240]. ‘Hark!’ etc. Cowper, The Task, IV. 1, et seq. Lord Byron denies, etc. See vol. VI. (Table-Talk), p. 210 and note, and vol. XI. (Fugitive Writings), p. 492.

ON THE SPIRIT OF MONARCHY

Republished in Literary Remains. The essay was published (? 1835) as a pamphlet (together with ‘The Moral Effects of Aristocracy,’ by Godwin).

PAGE [242]. ‘And by the vision,’ etc. See ante, note to p. 236. The madman in Hogarth. The Rake’s Progress, Plate VIII. ‘There goes,’ etc. Cf. ante, p. 218. We once heard, etc. In vol. VI. (Mr. Northcote’s Conversations), p. 387, this sentiment is attributed to a ‘Mr. R——.’ It is clear from the present passage that this person was not Mr. Railton, but William Roscoe (1753–1831), the well-known historian, and that therefore the reading of The London Weekly Review was correct. See note to vol. VI. p. 387. [243]. ‘That within,’ etc. Cf. Hamlet, Act I. Sc. 2. ‘To fear,’ etc. Othello, Act I. Sc. 2. [244]. ‘Peep through,’ etc. Macbeth, Act I. Sc. 5. ‘Great is Diana,’ etc. Acts xix. 28. ‘Your gods,’ etc. Cf. S. Matthew xiii. 13. In contempt of their worshippers. Cf. Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France (Select Works, ed. Payne, II. 17). Note. Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, I. 100–3. [245]. ‘Gods partial,’ etc. Pope, An Essay on Man, III. 257–8. ‘Any mark,’ etc. Cf. I Henry IV. Act III. Sc. 2. [246]. Note. See vol. III. (Political Essays), p. 298 and notes. [247]. ‘From the crown,’ etc. Cf. Isaiah i. 6. Virtue, says Montesquieu, etc. Esprit des Lois, III. 6. ‘Honour dishonourable.’ Paradise Lost, IV. 314–15. ‘Of outward shew,’ etc. Cf. Ibid. VIII. 538–9. [248]. ‘To tread,’ etc. Hamlet, Act I. Sc. 3. ‘Nice customs,’ etc. Henry V. Act V. Sc. 2. ‘In form and motion,’ etc. Cf. Hamlet, Act II. Sc. 2. ‘Vice is undone,’ etc. Pope, Epilogue to the Satires, I. 142–9. [249]. A Coronation-day. The coronation of George IV. had taken place on July 19, 1821. [250]. Prince Leopold. Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg (1790–1865), who had married the Princess Charlotte, and afterwards (1831) became King of the Belgians. Castlereagh ... unstained, etc. Castlereagh committed suicide on Aug. 12, 1822. ‘A present deity,’ etc. Dryden, Alexander’s Feast, 35–6. [251]. ‘Worth makes the man,’ etc. Pope, An Essay on Man, IV. 203–4. ‘The only amaranthine flower,’ etc. Cowper, The Task, III. 268–9. [252]. ‘A man may read,’ etc. Holy Dying, chap. i. § 2.

ON THE SCOTCH CHARACTER

Now republished for the first time. See Mr. W. C. Hazlitt’s Memoirs, etc. (1867), I. xxvii.

PAGE [253]. ‘Edina’s darling seat.’ ‘Edina! Scotia’s darling seat!’ Burns, Address to Edinburgh.

‘Winterslow Hut, near Salisbury,

‘August 26, 1818.

W. HAZLITT.’