‘There are whom heav’n has blest with store of wit,
Yet want as much again to manage it.’
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189. ‘Subtilised savages.’ ‘Nor as yet have we subtilised ourselves into savages.’ Burke, Refections on the Revolution in France (Select Works, ed. Payne, II. 101). 273. ‘As a saving of cheese-parings,’ etc. See Windham’s Speeches, I. 311 (March 13, 1797). 282. ‘As if they thrilled,’ etc. The Faerie Queene, II. xii. 78.
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93. ‘Not one of the angles,’ etc. Tristram Shandy, Book III. chap. xii. 164. ‘Shines like Hesperus,’ etc. The Faerie Queene, I. vii. 30. 371. ‘A singing face.’ Bombastes Furioso, Sc. I. 437. ‘Such were the joys,’ etc. Bickerstaffe, Love in a Village, II. 1.
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64. ‘Play at bowls,’ etc. Hazlitt elsewhere quotes these words as from ‘an old song.’ 106. ‘To dream and be an Emperour.’ Cf. ‘I am like a man that dreamt he was an Emperour.’ Fletcher, The Spanish Curate, II. 2. 245. ‘Perceive a fury,’ etc. Cf. Othello, IV. 2. 292. ‘Retire, the world shut out,’ etc. Young, Night Thoughts (IX.). 429. The Gods, ‘the children of Homer.’ Lucien Buonaparte, Charlemagne. See vol XI. (Fugitive Writings), p. 232.
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187. ‘Empurpling all the ground.’ Cf. Lycidas, 141. 208. ‘Relegated to obscure cloisters,’ etc. Cf. Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (Select Works, ed. Payne, II. 121). 260. ‘Yet his infelicity,’ etc. Cf. Webster, The Duchess of Malfy, Act IV. Sc. 2. 314. The American Farmer’s Letters. Letters from an American Farmer, by Hector St. John Crevecœur (1731–1813), published 1794. 378. ‘Hold our hands,’ etc. Cf. Dryden, Alexander’s Feast, 72.