Now republished for the first time. See Mr. W. C. Hazlitt’s Memoirs, etc. (1867), I. xxix.
PAGE [297]. Thimble. Cf. a passage, ante, at the foot of p. 39. The editors have not been able to identify the person here referred to as ‘Thimble.’
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‘Who shall go about,’ etc. Cf. The Merchant of Venice, Act II. Sc. 9. [298]. ‘Subtle,’ etc. Cf. Cymbeline, Act III. Sc. 3. ‘The children,’ etc. Cf. S. Luke xvi. 8. [299]. ‘To see ourselves,’ etc. Burns, To a Louse, St. 8. ‘No figures,’ etc. Cf. Julius Cæsar, Act II. Sc. 1. ‘His soul,’ etc. Pope, An Essay on Man, I. 101–2. [300]. ‘What shall it profit,’ etc. S. Mark viii. 36. [301]. Non ex quovis, etc. Erasmus, Adagiorum Chiliades, ‘Munus aptum.’ ‘No mark,’ etc. 1 Henry IV., Act III. Sc. 2. ‘The soul,’ etc. Cf. Othello, Act I. Sc. 3.
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PAGE [301]. Bub Doddington said, etc. Cf. vol. VI. (Table-Talk), p. 100 and note. Salus populi, etc. The Twelve Tables, De Officio Consulis. The upstart, etc. This sentence was omitted in Sketches and Essays. [302]. Mr. Cobbett seemed disappointed, etc. The reference is probably to The Weekly Political Register for Oct. 29, 1825, where Cobbett deplores the fact that Baron Maseres (1731–1824), who had visited him in prison, had left the bulk of his large property to a ‘little Protestant parson.’ ‘His patron’s ghost,’ etc. Cf. Thomson, The Castle of Indolence, I. St. 51. [303]. ‘Never standing upright,’ etc. See Macklin’s The Man of the World, II. 1. ‘In large heart enclosed.’ Cf. Paradise Lost, VII. 486. [304]. ‘The world,’ etc. Thomson, The Seasons, Autumn, 233. ‘The heart of man,’ etc. Cf. Jeremiah xvii. 9. ‘As the flesh,’ etc. Cf. Measure for Measure, Act II. Sc. 1. ‘Tread,’ etc. Cf. Hamlet, Act I. Sc. 3. [305]. ‘If thine eye,’ etc. Cf. S. Matthew v. 29. ‘The little chapel-bell,’ etc. Hazlitt refers to The Chapel Bell, an early poem of Southey’s (1793), and The Book of the Church, published by Southey in 1824. Camille-Desmoulins, etc. Camille Desmoulins (1760–1794), the well-known Revolutionary pamphleteer; Camille Jordan (1771–1821), called ‘Jordan Carillon,’ from a speech (July 4, 1797) in which he proposed to restore the use of bells to the clergy. See Hazlitt’s Life of Napoleon, chap. 15. ‘His own miniature-picture,’ etc. ‘On my own Miniature Picture’ (1796).
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[306]. ‘Give us pause.’ Hamlet, Act III. Sc. 1. ‘Does somewhat smack.’ Cf. The Merchant of Venice, Act II. Sc. 2. [307]. Peter Finnerty. Peter Finnerty (1766?–1822) at one time on the staff of The Morning Chronicle with Hazlitt. [308]. J——. Jeffrey. ‘In some sort handled.’ Cf. Henry V. Act II. Sc. 3. ‘The high and palmy state.’ Cf. Hamlet, Act I. Sc. 1. [309]. ‘Keep this dreadful pudder,’ etc. King Lear, Act III. Sc. 2. ‘When a great wheel,’ etc. Cf. Ibid. Act II. Sc. 4. [310]. ‘Will be,’ etc. Dr. Johnson, Preface to Shakespeare (Works, Oxford, 1825, vol. V., p. 118).