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_Scrub._ In ‘The Beaux’ Stratagem’ (1707), by George
Farquhar (1678–1707).

_Sharp._ In David Garrick’s ‘The Lying Valet’ (1741).

77. Note. _Bartholomew Fair._ A famous ground for shows and theatrical
exhibitions. The fair was held at West Smithfield from 1133 to
1855, and centred round the festival of St. Bartholomew, Aug.
24.

_Shuter._ Edward Shuter (?1728–1776).

_Mrs. Clive._ Catherine Clive (1711–1785).

_Kitty Pry._ In Garrick’s ‘The Lying Valet.’

_The reason has often been asked._ Cf. a similar passage in ‘The
Round Table,’

_On Actors and Acting_.

78. _Patie and Peggy._ In ‘The Gentle Shepherd’ (1725), by Allan
Ramsay (1686–1758).

_Mrs. Inchbald._ Elizabeth Inchbald (1753–1821), novelist,
dramatist and actress.

_the polygraphic art._ See p. 103.

79. _Bates’s company._ Joah Bates (1741–1799).

_Mr Shield._ William Shield, musical composer (1748–1829). He
wrote the music for ‘The Flitch of Bacon,’ the success of which
obtained for him the post of composer to Covent Garden Theatre;
and he composed many popular songs.

_Lowth’s Grammar._ ‘A Short Introduction to English Grammar’
(1762), by Robert Lowth (1710–1787).

_the character of Atticus._ Pope’s ‘Epis. to Arbuthnot.’

_Dance._ ? William Dance (1755–1840), one of the founders of the
Philharmonic Society.

_Miss Harrop._ Sarah Harrop (d. 1811). She married Joah Bates.

_the commemoration of Handel._ 1784.

_Bundle, in the Waterman._ 1774. By Charles Dibdin (1745–1814).

_Ritson ... the Treatise on Animal Food._ Joseph Ritson
(1752–1803), the antiquarian. ‘An Essay on Abstinence from
Animal Food as a Moral Duty’ (1802).

80. _the poet Cunningham._ John Cunningham (1729–1773), Irish poet and
strolling actor.

_Miss in her Teens._ 1747.

81. _Bensley._ Robert Bensley (?1738–?1817).

82. _there are in this very profession._ Cf. a similar passage in ‘The
Round Table,’

_On Actors and Acting_.

83. _I have oft be-dimm’d._ I have be-dimm’d, etc.—‘The Tempest,’ Act
v. 1.

_The Crisis._ May 1, 1778. Genest (‘Some Account of the English
Stage,’ vol. vi. p. 12) says it was acted for the benefit of the
Misses Hopkins. See p. 84.

_Kind Impostor._ ‘She Would and She Would Not, or the Kind
Impostor’ (1702), by Colley Cibber (1671–1757).

_Love in a Village._ 1762. By Bickerstaffe.

_Maid of the Mill._ 1765. By Bickerstaffe.

_School for Wives._ 1773. By Hugh Kelly (1739–1777).

_Faithless Lover._ The Fashionable Lover (1772). By Richard
Cumberland (1732–1811).

_Brothers._ 1769. By Cumberland.

_West Indian._ 1771. By Cumberland.

_Lionel and Clarissa._ 1768. By Bickerstaffe.

84. _Mr Greville._ Richard Fulke Greville, author of ‘Maxims,
Characters, and Reflections’ (1756), and grandfather of the
diarists, Charles and Henry Greville. See ‘The Early Diary of
Frances Burney’ (ed. Annie Raine Ellis, 2 vols., 1889), and
Boswell’s _Life_ (ed. G. B. Hill, iv. 304). Mrs. Greville
(Frances Macartney) was Fanny Burney’s godmother. She and her
daughter (Mrs., afterwards Lady, Crewe) were ‘the two greatest
beauties in England.’ ‘Early Diary,’ etc., 1. p. 23.

_the part of Mungo._ In ‘The Padlock’ (1768), by Bickerstaffe.

_Love for Love._ 1695. By Congreve.

_Mawworm._ In ‘The Hypocrite’ (1768), a comedy by Bickerstaffe,
based (through Cibber’s ‘Nonjuror’) on Molière’s ‘Tartuffe.’

85. _Who’s the Dupe?_ 1779. By Mrs. Hannah Cowley (1743–1809).

_The Flitch of Bacon._ 1778. Composed by Henry Bate, afterwards
the Rev. Sir Henry Bate Dudley (1745–1824), with music by
Shield. For Bate, see Boswell (ed. G. B. Hill), iv. 296.

_the Camp._ 1778. By Richard Tickell (1751–1793).

86. _the Shepherdess of the Alps._ Covent Garden, Jan. 18, 1780.

_Mr Arne._ Michael Arne (1741?–1786).

87. _Mr King._ Thomas King (1730–1805), actor and dramatist, was
three-fourths owner of Sadlers Wells Theatre, 1771–78.

_The Noble Peasant._ Aug. 2, 1784.

_Elegy on his Death._ ‘On the death of S. Foote, Esq.,’ and ‘On
Age’ (1777).

_Bath Easton Vase._ ‘Lady Miller’s collection of verses by
fashionable people, which were put into her Vase at Batheaston
Villa, near Bath, in competition for honorary prizes, being
mentioned, he held them very cheap: “_Boutsrimés_ (said he) is
a mere conceit, and an _old_ conceit _now_; I wonder how
people were persuaded to write in that manner for this
lady.”’—Boswell’s

_Life of Johnson_ (ed. G. B. Hill, ii. 336).

88. _White-Conduit House._ The tea-gardens formerly on the east side
of Penton Street, Pentonville, a resort of Goldsmith’s.

_Nan Catley._ Ann Catley (1745–1789).

89. _Duplicity._ Holcroft’s first comedy, Covent Garden, Oct. 13,
1781. See p. 100.

_P——._ James Perry (1756–1821) political writer and joint editor
and proprietor (with James Gray) of ‘The Morning Chronicle,’
‘the only constitutional paper,’ referred to on p. 94.

91. _Nicholson._ William Nicholson (1753–1815), writer on chemistry.

95. _Mrs. Whitelocke._ Mrs. Whitelocke (1761–1836) was a sister of
Mrs. Siddons. Her husband was part proprietor of the Newcastle
Theatre and of others in the North. She was an excellent
tragédienne, though her fame has been eclipsed by that of her
sister,

_his friend N——._ Nicholson.

98. _a pamphlet._ A Plain ... Narrative of the late Riots in London
... Westminster, and ... Southwark ... with an Account of the
Commitment of Lord G. Gordon to the Tower, etc.... By William
Vincent of Gray’s Inn (1780).

99. _Loughborough._ Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Baron Loughborough
(1733–1805), Lord Chancellor (1793–1801).

100. _Mr Harris._ Thomas Harris (d. 1820) was associated with Colman
and others in the proprietorship and management of Covent Garden
Theatre.

102. _King Arthur._ Probably Dryden’s (1691).

_Mr Linley._ Thomas Linley (1732–1795) was associated with
Sheridan in Drury Lane Theatre. He superintended the music.
Sheridan married his daughter Elizabeth Ann.

_Mr Wewitzer._ Ralph Wewitzer (1748–1825).

103. _Mr Colman._ George Colman (1732–1794) took over the Haymarket
from Foote in 1776.

104. _the Sceptic._ ‘Human Happiness, or the Sceptic,’ poem in six
cantos (1783).

_the Family Picture_, or Domestic Dialogues on Amiable Subjects
(1783), 2 vols.

_Prematur nonum in annum._

‘nonumque prematur in annum.’
Hor. De Arte Poet., 388.

Note. _Tales of the Castle_, or Stories of Instruction and
Delight, being Les Veillées du Chateau, written in French by
Madame la Comtesse de Genlis (1784). Translated into English
(1785). 5 vols. An eighth edition was published in 1806.

105. _Duchess of Devonshire._ The celebrated Georgiana (1757–1806), who
married in 1774 the 5th Duke of Devonshire.

106. _Mr John Rivington._ See Hazlitt’s note on p. 108. The publisher’s
(1720–1792) name was also John.

107. _Caroline of Litchfield._ Translated from the French of J. I. P.
de Bottens, Baroness de Montolieu.

_The Amours of Peter the Long._ ‘An Amourous Tale of the Chaste
Loves of Peter the Long and the History of the Lover’s Well.
Imitated from the original French’ (L. E. Billardson de
Sauvigny, 1786).

_Memoirs of De Tott._ ‘Memoirs of the Baron de Tott on the Turks
and Tartars. Translated from the French by an English Gentleman
at Paris, under the immediate inspection of the Baron’ (1785). 2
vols.

_Savary’s Travels in Egypt._ Nicholas Savary’s Letters on Egypt,
translated from the French (1786). 2 vols.

_An Account of the Manners and Treatment of Animals, by
D’Obsonville._ Philosophic Essays on the manners of various
foreign animals. By Foucher D’Obsonville (1784).

_the Robinsons._ George Robinson (1737–1801). His son and his
brother joined and succeeded him in his business as a
bookseller.

_Mercier._ Louis Sébastien Mercier (1740–1814), author of many
dramas. His ‘The Year 2500’ (2440 in French) was published in
1772. He was a supporter of the Revolution.

_Mr Bonneville._ Nicholas de Bonneville, a poet of the Revolution
(1760–1828) and a student of German literature. ‘Nouveau Théâtre
Allemand’ (12 vols.), 1782–5.

109. _The Connoisseurs._ Possibly a confusion for some other play of
Colman’s. ‘The Connoisseur’ was a journal of the ‘Spectator’
type, conducted by G. Colman and Bonnell Thornton, Jan. 31,
1754, to Sept. 30, 1756.

_Battle of Hexham._ 1789. By George Colman the younger
(1762–1836).

_The Mountaineers._ 1793. By Colman the younger.

_The Venetian Outlaw._ 1805. By Robert William Elliston
(1774–1831), comedian and dramatist.

Note. _The Man of Business._ 1774. By Colman the elder.

111. _Parsons._ Wm. Parsons (1736–1795).

_Edwin._ John Edwin the elder (1749–1790).

_The Choleric Fathers._ Nov. 10, 1785.

113. _The Follies of a Day._ Dec. 14, 1784. Published 1785.

_Mr Bonner._ Charles Bonnor (fl. 1777–1829?).

114. _M. Berquin._ Arnauld Berquin (1749–1791), a writer for children.

115. _Seduction._ March 12, Drury Lane.

_Les Liaisons Dangereux._ ‘Les Liaisons Dangereuses’ (1782), a
novel, by P. A. F. Ch. de Laclos (1741–1803).

_the King of Prussia’s works._ Posthumous works of Frederic II.,
King of Prussia (translated from the French) (1789), 13 vols.

_Essays of Lavater._ ‘Essays on Physiognomy; for the Promotion of
the Knowledge and Love of Mankind’ (1793), 3 vols.

116. _the German Hotel._ Nov. 11, 1790.

_The School for Arrogance._ Feb. 4, 1791, Covent Garden. ‘As
Holcroft imagined that Harris was prejudiced against him,
Marshall at first avowed himself as the author of the
piece.’—Genest, vol. vii. p. 27. The play was founded on ‘Le
Glorieux’ (1732) of Destouches (1680–1754).

121. _The Road to Ruin._ Covent Garden, Feb. 18, 1792. See ‘Lectures on
the English Comic Writers,’ viii. Some ‘Remarks’ signed ‘William
Hazlitt’ are prefixed to French’s (late Lacy’s) Acting Edition
of the play; see ‘Memoirs of Hazlitt,’ vol. ii. p. 272, for the
probable source of these ‘Remarks.’ They will be found in the
Notes to the volume of the present edition containing the bulk
of Hazlitt’s dramatic criticism.

122. _Lewis._ Wm. Thomas Lewis (1748?–1811).

_Castle Rackrent._ 1800. By Maria Edgeworth (1767–1849).

129. _‘A faultless monster, which the world ne’er saw.’_ From the
_Essay on Poetry_ of John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham
(1648–1721).

_quod sic mihi ostendis, incredulus odi._ Hor. de Arte Poet., 188.

130. _ugly all over with affectation._ Cf. ‘He is ugly all over with
the affectation of the fine gentleman.’ Quoted by Steele from
Wycherley, _The Tatler_, No. 38.

‘A reasoning, self-sufficient [self-sufficing] thing.’—Wordsworth.
‘A Poet’s Epitaph.’ Poems: Sentiment, etc., viii.

_in so questionable a shape._ ‘In such a questionable
shape.’—Hamlet, I. 4.

133. _Mr Locke’s Essay._ The Essay was published in 1690.

136. _the very head and front of his offending._ Othello, I. 3.

139. _Mr Holcroft’s own ‘Narrative of Facts.’_ ‘A Narrative of Facts
relating to a Prosecution for High Treason, including the
Address to the Jury which the Court refused to hear; with
Letters to the Attorney-General ... and Vicary Gibbs, Esq., and
the Defence the Author had prepared if he had been brought to
trial’ (1795).

141. _the proclamation._ ‘For preventing seditious meetings and
writings.’

142. _Mr Reeves’s Association._ John Reeves (1752–1829), founder of the
Association for Preserving liberty and property against
Levellers and Republicans. He himself was prosecuted by order of
the House of Commons for a supposed libellous passage in
‘Thoughts on the English Government’ (1795), but acquitted.

142. _The late John Hunter._ Anatomist and surgeon (1728–1793).

145. _Hickes’s Hall._ Hicks Hall, formerly in St. John Street,
Clerkenwell. It was built in 1612 by Sir Baptist Hicks as a
sessions house, and abandoned in 1779. The milestones on the
Great North Road were measured from here.

146. _Lord Chief Justice Eyre._ Sir James Eyre (1734–1799),
Chief-Justice of the Common Pleas.

_Attorney-General._ Sir John Scott, Attorney-General, afterwards
Lord Eldon, was Counsel for the prosecution.

147. _Erskine._ Thomas Erskine (1750–1823), advocate and Lord
Chancellor. He eloquently defended many prosecuted for political
offences in 1793–4.

_Gibbs._ Vicary Gibbs (1751–1820), afterwards Sir Vicary
Gibbs, otherwise ‘Vinegar Gibbs’ from his caustic manner,
Attorney-General (1807–1812), and Chief-Justice of the
Common Pleas (1814–1818). He was a shrewd and learned lawyer
and had been complimented by the Attorney-General on his
successful defence of Thomas Hardy and Horne Tooke.

_Mr Munden._ Joseph Shepherd Munden (1758–1832), comic actor. He
was a favourite actor for the part of Dornton in ‘The Road to
Ruin.’ See Lamb’s ‘Elia,’ ed. Ainger, p. 201, ‘On the Acting of
Munden.’

149. _‘an acquitted felon.’_ A phrase of Windham’s. William Windham
(1750–1810) was a member of Pitt’s government, and heartily
supported measures for the repression of ‘sedition.’

151. _Thomas Hardy_ (1752–1832), radical politician. He was brought to
trial for high treason, Oct. 28, 1794, and found not guilty on
Nov. 5.

_the trial of Mr Tooke._ John Horne Tooke (1736–1812) had been
acquitted on Nov. 22, 1794.

_Mr Kyd, etc._ Stewart Kyd (d. 1811), political and legal writer.
Jeremiah Joyce (1763–1816), miscellaneous writer. He was tutor
to the sons of Lord Stanhope, at whose house, Chevening, Kent,
May 4, 1794, he was arrested for treason. See Note to p. 222.

152. _Sharp._ William Sharp (1749–1824), engraver, republican and
enthusiast. See p. 226.

_Mr Symmonds._ H. D. Symmonds, of 20 Paternoster Row, publisher of
Holcroft’s ‘Narrative of Facts’ and ‘Letter to Mr Windham.’

153. _Mr Thelwall’s lectures._ John Thelwall (1764–1834), reformer,
disseminated political views by means of lectures on Roman
history. Later, he was a popular lecturer on elocution.

154. Note. _The Borough of Gatton._ A ‘pocket-borough’ between Merstham
and Reigate, Surrey.

156. _Letter to Mr Windham._ ‘A Letter to the Right Hon. W. Windham on
the intemperance and dangerous tendency of his public conduct’
(1795).

158. _Dundas._ Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville (1742–1811), a
trusted friend of Pitt’s, and a member of his government. He
practically ruled Scotland for thirty years. Cf. Cockburn’s
‘Life of Francis Jeffrey,’ pp. 74, _et seq._, and Sir H. Craik’s
‘A Century of Scottish History,’ vol. ii. p. 91.

159. _‘Love’s Frailties,’_ or Precept against Practice. Feb. 5.

_‘The Deserted Daughter.’_ May 2. Owing to the political prejudice
against Holcroft many of his plays appeared under assumed names
or anonymously.

_‘The Man of Ten Thousand.’_ Jan. 23.

_‘The Force of Ridicule.’_ Dec. 6, 1796.

_‘Knave or Not.’_ Jan. 25.

_‘He’s much to blame.’_ Feb. 13, 1798. See p. 190.

160. _Bannister._ John Bannister (1760–1836).

_Miss Farren._ Elizabeth Farren (1759?–1829), actress and, later,
Countess of Derby.

162. _the tragedy of Cato._ 1713. By Addison.

_Miss Jordan._ Dorothea Jordan (1762–1816).

_o’erstepping the modesty of nature._ Hamlet, III. 2.

163. _the Clavigo of Goethe._ 1774.

_‘The Inquisitor.’_ June 23, 1798.

_‘The Old Clothesman.’_ 1799 (music by Thomas Attwood, 1765–1838).
Genest (vol. vii. p. 434) speaks of its being acted a second
time on April 3.

163. _Mr Godwin._ Wm. Godwin (1756–1836). Mr Kegan Paul’s ‘William
Godwin, His Friends and Contemporaries’ (1876) contains many of
Holcroft’s letters, and much of interest to readers of the
‘Memoirs.’ It seems to have been at Godwin’s house, Holcroft and
Coleridge also present, that Hazlitt first met Lamb. See
‘Memoirs of Hazlitt,’ vol. i. p. 126.

_Political Justice._ ‘Enquiry concerning Political Justice and its
influence on Morals and Happiness’ (1793).

_Griffiths._ Ralph Griffiths (1720–1803), LL.D., founder,
proprietor and publisher of ‘The Monthly Review.’

164. _the Review of Mr Malthus’s publication._ The ‘Essay on the
Principle of Population’ (Thomas Robert Malthus, 1766–1834) was
published in 1798.

_Colonel Harwood._ ? Col. Harwood, nephew of William Tooke, Horne
Tooke’s friend.

165. _the Fratres Poloni._ Polonorum Fratrum Bibliotheca quos Unitarios
vocant, etc., 1656, 5 vols. folio. See ‘Memoirs of Hazlitt,’
vol. i. p. 33.

_the original picture of Sion House, painted by Wilson._ ‘A view
of Sion House from Richmond Gardens’ (1776), by Richard Wilson
(1714–1782), one of the greatest of English landscape painters.

166. _Gresset._ Jean Baptiste Louis Gresset (1709–1777), French poet
and dramatist.

167. _prison-bars._ See note to p. 19.

169. _Mr and Mrs. Opie._ John Opie (1761–1807), historical painter. One
of his portraits of Holcroft forms the frontispiece to the
present volume. His wife, Amelia, was a writer of ability.

_Debrett’s._ The shop of John Debrett (d. 1822), opposite
Burlington House, Piccadilly, a Whig resort.

_R. Ad——._ Sir Robert Adair (1763–1855), the friend of Charles
James Fox.

_Lord Fitz——._ William Wentworth, 2nd Earl Fitzwilliam
(1748–1833).

_D—— P——._ William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland
(1738–1809).

_Professor Porson._ Richard Porson (1759–1808), Greek scholar and
critic.

_Middleton’s preface._ Conyers Middleton’s (1683–1750) ‘History of
the Life of M. Tullius Cicero’ (1741). A book which enjoyed a
great reputation, and which reached a fourth edition in 1750.

170. _the letters to Travis._ ‘Letters to Mr Archdeacon Travis [George,
1741– 1797] in answer to his Defence of the three heavenly
witnesses’ [1 John v. 7], published by Porson in ‘The
Gentleman’s Magazine,’ 1788–89, and in a volume in 1790;
described by Gibbon as ‘the most acute and accurate piece of
criticism since the days of Bentley.’

_the Minor._ 1760. By Foote.

_Pennant’s tour in Scotland._ Thomas Pennant’s (1726–1798) ‘Tours
in Scotland’ were published in 1771–75. ‘He’s a _Whig_, Sir; a
_sad dog_ ... but he’s the best traveller I ever read.’—Johnson.
See Boswell’s Life (ed. G. B. Hill), iii. 274.

_Carlisle._ Sir Anthony Carlisle (1768–1840), comparative
anatomist, who was associated in 1800 with Holcroft’s friend
Nicholson in his electrical researches.

_Mr Waldron._ Francis Godolphin Waldron (1744–1818), writer and
actor.

171. _Perry._ See note to p. 89. Perry was sent to Newgate by the House
of Lords, 22nd March 1798, for three months, and fined £50, for
a ‘libel’ on that assembly.

_Wakefield’s pamphlet._ Gilbert Wakefield (1756–1801),
pamphleteer, scholar, and critic, was sentenced to two years’
imprisonment, in May 1799, for remarks in a pamphlet addressed
to the Bishop of Llandaff. His publisher (Cuthell) and printer
were also convicted. Erskine defended Cuthell, whose punishment
was remitted. See also p. 202.

And Note. _Mr Fawcett._ Dissenting minister and poet (?1758–1804).
Mrs. Siddons and the Kembles were often amongst his listeners.
‘The Art of War’ was published in 1795. See ‘Memoirs of
Hazlitt,’ vol. i. pp. 75–79, for a collection of Hazlitt’s
notices of Mr Fawcett. See also sundry references to him in ‘The
Spirit of the Age.’ Godwin says: ‘The four principal oral
instructors to whom I feel my mind indebted for improvement were
Joseph Fawcet, Thomas Holcroft, George Dyson, and Samuel Taylor
Coleridge’ (Kegan Paul’s ‘Godwin,’ i. p. 17).

172. _Lord Townshend._ George, 4th Viscount and 1st Marquis
(1724–1807).

_St. John._ ? John St. John (1746–1793), dramatist and M.P.

_Bower’s Life of Pope Alexander the Sixth._ Probably Archibald
Bower’s (1686–1766) ‘History of the Popes,’ the first volume of
which was published in 1748, and the sixth and seventh just
before his death.

173. _‘First Elements.’_ ‘Elements of Natural History and Chemistry’
(1788) and Chaptal’s ‘Elements’ (1795), both translations or
adaptations.

_Fenwick’s publication._ A pamphlet on behalf of the Rev. James
O’Coigly. The ‘late trial’ would be that of Arthur (referred to
on the next page) O’Connor (1763–1852) and Coigly at Maidstone
for high treason. Coigly was found guilty on May 22, 1798, and
executed on June 7. Although O’Connor was found Not Guilty, he
was not liberated until 1803. See also Note to p. 186.

174. _Mr Stodart._ Sir John Stoddart (1773–1856), whose only sister,
Sarah, married W. Hazlitt.

_Mrs. Revely._ Maria Reveley (_née_ James), a friend of Godwin’s.
(See Kegan Paul’s ‘Godwin,’ vol. i. p. 81 _et seq._).

_Warren._ Richard Warren (1731–1797), the head of the medical
practice of his day. Mrs. Inchbald composed memorial verses on
his death.

_Sir George Baker_ (1722–1809).

175. _Reynold’s._ For Reynold’s read Reynolds’s.

_the following assertion of Johnson._ See Life (ed. G. B. Hill),
vol. ii. p. 198.

_C——._ Carlisle. See note to p. 170.

176. _Ireland’s Hogarth Illustrated._ John Ireland’s (d. 1808) edition,
in 3 vols., roy. 8vo, 1791–98.

_Boyd and Benfield._ Walter Boyd (1754?–1837), financier, and Paul
Benfield (d. 1810), Indian trader. They were bankers,
established in London in 1793 and ruined in 1799. See Lockhart’s
‘Scott,’ chap. lxxvi.

_Law._ John Law (1681–1729), financial projector and Parisian
banker.

_Purcel._ Henry Purcell (1658?–1695).

_as Boswell affirms._ See Life (ed. G. B. Hill), ii. 342. The
statement was made by Tom Davies. Dr. Burney says, in a note,
that Corelli never was in England.

_Corelli._ Archangelo Corelli, Italian musician (1653–1713).

177. _Phillips._ Sir Richard Phillips (1767–1840), author, bookseller,
and publisher. He established the ‘Monthly Magazine’ in 1796,
which was edited by John Aikin.

_F. the Cambridge man._ Flower. See Note to p. 190.

_Pinkerton (Heron’s Letters)._ John Pinkerton (1758–1826),
Scottish historian and antiquarian. His ‘Letters of Literature’
(Robert Heron, 1785) introduced him to Walpole. See De Quincey’s
‘Orthographic Mutineers.’ Works, ed. Masson, xi. pp. 443–44.

_the wife of Petion._ Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve (1756–1794) of
the French Revolution. He was proscribed in 1793 and escaped,
but he and his companions shot themselves.

_George Dyer_ (1755–1841), miscellaneous writer. See Lamb’s
‘Amicus Redivivus.’ ‘Elia,’ ed. Ainger, p. 281.

178. _Don Carlos._ Schiller (1787). Stoddart (see note to p. 174)
published a translation of ‘Don Carlos’ with G. H. Noehden in
1798.

_Pitt ... duel._ Pitt fought a duel with Tierney, 27th May, 1798,
on Putney Heath. Pitt had accused Tierney of wilful obstruction.
Neither shot took effect.

_Count Rumford’s experiments on heat._ Sir Benjamin Thompson
(1753–1814), created Count von Rumford by the Elector of
Bavaria for his services to that State. He founded the Royal
Institution.

_Dalrymple._ Alexander Dalrymple (1737–1808), hydrographer to the
Admiralty.

_Sir Joseph Banks_ (1743–1820), naturalist and companion of
Captain Cook in a voyage round the world.

_C——_, _G——_, _O——_. Probably Carlisle, Godwin, and Opie.

_Laudohn._ Gideon Ernest Laudohn (1716–1790). Because of the
intrigues of his rivals he was not created Field-Marshal until
1778.

179. _Crebillon._ Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (1674–1762), dramatic
poet.

180. _Garat._ Dominique Joseph Comte Garat (1749–1833) of the French
Revolution.

_Sir William B——._ Sir William Beechey (1753–1839).

_his picture of the dying Cardinal._ ‘The Death of Cardinal
Beaufort.’ A drawing by Fuseli of the same subject had appeared
at the Royal Academy in 1774.

_a picture by Fuseli for Comus._ Henry Fuseli (1741–1825). The
picture would be one of his forty for the ‘Milton Gallery,’
opened May 20, 1799, in Pall Mall.

181. _Sir F. Bourgeois._ Sir Peter Francis Bourgeois (1756–1811),
landscape painter to George III. His collection was bequeathed
to Dulwich College.

_Mr P——._ Mr Pinkerton. Is this the ‘tragedy’ spoken of by Sir
Walter Scott? See Lockhart’s ‘Life,’ Letter to Miss Joanna
Baillie, March 21, 1813.

_Wolcott._ John Wolcot, ‘Peter Pindar’ (1738–1819), physician,
satirist, and poet.

_Steevens._ George Steevens (1736–1800), Shakespearian
commentator.

_the two Sheares’s._ John (1766–1798), and Henry (1753–1798), of
the ‘United Irishmen.’ They were executed for high treason. See
Lady Wilde’s poem, ‘The Brothers.’

182. _a philippic by Francis ... against Thurlow._ Sir Philip Francis
(1740–1818), reputed author of the ‘Letters of Junius,’ and
Edward Thurlow (1731–1806), Lord Chancellor (1778–83 and
1784–92). The speech by Francis was delivered on July 16, 1784
(_Parl. Hist._ xxiv. pp. 1102–22).

182. _Sastres._ To whom Johnson bequeathed five pounds, ‘to be laid out
in books of piety for his own use’ (ed. G. B. Hill, iv. 403).
Boswell had perhaps annoyed him by a passage (ed. G. B. Hill,
iii. 21), in which, speaking of the widely different persons
with whom Johnson associated, he joined Lord Thurlow’s name with
that of ‘Mr Sastres, the Italian master.’

183. _Johnson complains in one of his letters._ ‘The best night I have
had these twenty years was at Fort Augustus.’ Letter to Boswell
(Life, ed. G. B. Hill, iii. 369).

184. _the new edition of Pilkington._ ‘The Gentleman’s and
Connoisseur’s Dictionary of Painters’ (1770), by Matthew
Pilkington (1700?–1784). A new edition, edited by Dr. Wolcot,
appeared in 1799.

_Malone._ Edmund Malone (1741–1812), commentator on Shakespeare
and the friend and editor of Boswell.

_Read._ Isaac Reed (1742–1807), critic and Shakespearian
commentator.

_Boswell likewise prates._ See Life (ed. G. B. Hill, iv. 40–41).

_Dr. Towers._ Joseph Towers (1737–1799), political writer. See p.
202.

_the late Dr. Kippis._ Andrew Kippis (1725–1795), dissenting
divine.

_P——’s tragedy._ See note to p. 181.

185. _Loutherbourg._ Philip James Loutherbourg (1740–1812), landscape
painter.

_Gilleray._ James Gillray (1757–1815), caricaturist.

_Mr E——._ Erskine.

186. _Lord Thanet._ Sackville Tufton, 9th Earl of Thanet (1767–1825). A
Whig sympathiser of Arthur O’Connor’s. He was tried April 25,
1799, for attempting to rescue O’Connor at Maidstone. See note
to p. 173. He was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment, fined
£1000, and ordered to find security for 7 years in £20,000.

_Judge Buller._ Sir Francis Buller (1746–1800). He presided at the
trial of Arthur O’Connor.

_Garrow._ Sir William Garrow (1760–1840), successively
Solicitor-General (1812–13) and Attorney-General (1813–17).

_Fullarton._ ? William Fullarton (1754–1808), Anglo-Indian
Commander, and Member of Parliament.

188. _the respite of Bond._ Oliver Bond (1760?–1798), Irish republican,
was tried, July 1798, and sentenced to be hanged for high
treason. He was respited by the Viceroy, the Marquis Cornwallis,
on the entreaty of his fellow-prisoners, who, to spare him,
agreed to turn informers. See p. 190.

_Farmer’s library._ Richard Farmer (1735–1797), Master of Emmanuel
College, Cambridge, and author of ‘An Essay on the Learning of
Shakspeare’ (1767). The Catalogue ran to nearly 400 pages,
concerning over 8000 books. The library had cost £500 to
collect, and sold for over £2000. The comment in the ‘Annual
Register’ is ‘such is the rage for musty literature.’

_Dr. Gosset._ Isaac Gosset the younger (1735?–1812),
bibliographer. He was a well-known figure at London auction
sales.

189. _B——._ Sir William Beechey.

_Desenfans._ Noel Joseph Desenfans (1745–1807), picture-dealer.

_Farrington._ Joseph Farington (1747–1821), landscape painter.

_Hodges._ William Hodges (1744–1797), Royal Academician.

190. _the Cambridge paper._ ‘The Cambridge Intelligencer,’ edited by
Benjamin Flower (1755–1829). He was imprisoned for libel in due
course. His paper was a rare example of a provincial paper,
advocating religious liberty and condemning the French war.

191. _Lowe (mentioned by Kim in his life of Johnson)._ Mauritius Lowe
(1746–1793), the painter. For Boswell’s version of the story
referred to in the text, see Life (ed. G. B. Hill, IV. 201–2).

_N——._ Nicholson. His ‘Journal [see pp. 192, 212] of Natural
Philosophy, Chemistry, and the Arts,’ etc., appeared in
1797–1802 and 1802–15.

192. _the voyage of Perouse._ John Francis Galoup de la Perouse (b.
1741), French circumnavigator. He perished off the New Hebrides
after March 1788. Translations of ‘A Voyage round the World
1785–88’ were published 1798 (8vo), and 1799 (4to).

194. _Wild Oats_, or the Strolling Gentleman. 1791. By John O’Keeffe.
In 1798 his Works were published by Subscription in 4 vols.

_Mr Ramsey._ James Ramsey, divine and philanthropist (1733–1789).
His ‘An Essay on the Treatment and Conversion of African Slaves
in the British Sugar Colonies’ was published in 1784.

195. _Emery and Mrs. Mills._ John Emery (1777–1822). See Hazlitt’s note
on p. 70. Genest (vol. vii. p. 426) says Mrs. Mills from York
made her second appearance on Oct. 10 (Covent Garden). She acted
Sophia in ‘The Road to Ruin,’ and Little Pickle in ‘The Spoil’d
Child.’

196. _Dr. Parr._ Samuel Parr (1747–1825), ‘the Whig Johnson.’ His
‘Præfatio ad Bellendenum de Statu’ was published in 1787.

_Macintosh._ ? Sir James Mackintosh (1765–1832). He was associated
with the Society for Constitutional Information.

_Lovers’ Vows._ 1798. By Mrs. Inchbald, adapted from Kotzebue.

197. _J. Aickin._ James Aickin or Aikin (d. 1803), actor.

_Cumberland sent his Tiberius_ [in Capreæ].

198. _Dr. A——_? Dr. John Aikin (1747–1822), physician and editor of
‘The Monthly Magazine.’ He was the father of Mrs. Barbauld.

_Palmer._ Thomas Palmer. See Genest (vol. vii. p. 427).

_Edelinck._ Gerard Edelinck (1649–1707), engraver.

199. _Boaden._ James Boaden (1762–1839), the biographer of Mrs.
Inchbald.

_Bosville._ William Bosville (1745–1813), bon vivant and friend of
Horne Tooke. See the latter’s ‘Diversions of Purley.’

_Tobin._ John Tobin (1770–1804), dramatic writer.

200. _Grenville._ William Wyndham, Baron Grenville (1759–1834).

_Cornwallis._ Charles, 1st Marquis and 2nd Earl Cornwallis
(1738–1805). Governor-General of India, and Lord-Lieutenant of
Ireland.

201. _School for Ingratitude._ A comedy by Fisher (1798).

_Mr Reynolds._ Frederick Reynolds (1764–1841). ‘Cheap Living’
appeared in 1797, but ‘The School for Ingratitude’ had been
submitted at Drury Lane and rejected before its publication in
1798. See Genest (vol. vii. p. 329).

_Tierney._ George Tierney (1761–1830), statesman and political
writer, Whig and duellist (with Pitt). Probably the T—— referred
to on p. 199.

_Walpole’s Painters._ Anecdotes of Painting in England
(1762–1771). Issued from Strawberry Hill.

_the Narrative, etc._ See notes to pp. 139 and 156.

_Fittler._ James Fittler (1758–1835), engraver.

_the Exiles._ A translation or adaptation of Kotzebue’s
(1761–1819) play. See p. 196.

_Platonist Taylor._ Thomas Taylor (1758–1835), lecturer on, and
translator of, Plato.

202. _Tone._ Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763–1798), Irish revolutionist. He
committed suicide in prison while under sentence of death.

_Wakefield’s pamphlet._ See note to p. 171.

_Morland._ George Morland (1763–1804), painter of country scenes
and humble life.

203. _Dr. Franklin._ Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790).

_Dr. Solander._ Daniel Charles Solander (1736–1782). Swedish
naturalist, and companion of Sir Joseph Banks and Captain Cook
in a voyage round the world.

_Bentley._ Thomas Bentley (1731–1780), entered into partnership
with Wedgwood, 1768.

_Wedgewood._ Josiah Wedgwood (1730–1795), the potter.

_Sir Francis Burdett_ (1770–1844), radical politician.

204. _King’s ... speech._ At the opening of Parliament, Nov. 20.

_Brown, the Egyptian traveller._ William George Browne
(1768–1813), whose ‘Travels in Africa, Egypt, and Syria 1792–98’
appeared in 1800.

_S——’s._ Symmonds’s. See p. 205 and Note to p. 152.

205. _Ward, the pugilist._ Ould Joe Ward, the father of the prize ring
(b. 1751). See Pierce Egan’s ‘Boxiana,’ vol. i. p. 424, and vol.
iii. p. 496.

_Jew K——._ John King. See a letter from Godwin to him, Jan. 24,
1796, concerning ‘the frequency of my visits’ (Kegan Paul’s
‘Godwin,’ 1. 155).

206. _the daughters of Horne Tooke._ Mary and Charlotte Hart, his
illegitimate daughters.

_the Wheel of Fortune._ 1795. By Cumberland.

208. _Canning’s fine speech._ Tierney had moved a peace proposal on
Dec. 11. Canning’s speech against the motion (which was
negatived) occupies thirty-eight columns in the ‘Parliamentary
History.’

209. _Northcote._ James Northcote (1746–1831).

_West._ Benjamin West (1738–1820), painter.

212. _Dr. Beddoes._ Thomas Beddoes (1760–1808). He was the father of
Thomas Lovell Beddoes.

_Wedgewood._ Thomas Wedgwood (1771–1805), the friend of Coleridge.

_Parkinson, jun. ... Parkinson, sen._ James Parkinson (1730?–1813)
won Sir Ashton Lever’s Museum (1784) by lottery. Placed in a
building erected for it at the Surrey side of Blackfriars Bridge
(later the home of the Surrey Institution), it was one of the
sights of London. It was sold by auction in 1806. Joseph
Parkinson, son of the above (1783–1855), was an architect, and
designed the Library of the Leverian Museum.

_Lillo’s Fatal Curiosity._ 1736. By George Lillo (1693–1739).

213. _L——._ Willoughby Lacy, Garrick’s partner at Drury Lane.

214. _Brueys._ François Paul Brueys d’Aigaïlliers (1753–1798), the
French admiral who commanded the fleet in the Egyptian
expedition. He was killed at the battle of Aboukir.

_Serres._ Dominic Serres (1722–1793), of Gascon birth, was marine
painter to the king; he was succeeded in that office by his son,
John Thomas Serres (1759–1825).

215. _‘the Jew and the Doctor.’_ 1798. By Thomas J. Dibdin (1771–1841).

216. _Le Bon._ Joseph Le Bon (1765–1795); his acts against the
opponents of the Revolution were very harsh, and they led to his
being guillotined.

217. _Tierney’s motion._ Tierney complained on the 27th against the
‘Times’ for misrepresenting speeches of members. The motion was
withdrawn on the 31st after satisfactory assurances from the
editor to Tierney.

_Lord Holland._ Henry Richard Vassall Fox, 3rd Lord Holland
(1773–1840). He is referred to later as Lord H——.

_N——’s ... academy._ Nicholson opened a school in Soho, but it had
only a brief career.

218. _His speech in the Lords._ The third reading of the Bill for the
Suspension of the Habeas Corpus came up in the Lords on Jan. 3.
After it was carried Lord Holland entered a protest on the
Journals.

219. _‘The Votary of Wealth.’_ 1799. By Joseph George Holman
(1764–1817), the original Harry Dornton in Holcroft’s ‘Road to
Ruin.’

_Belsham from Davenant._ Probably William Belsham (1752–1827), a
writer on the Whig side, and brother of the Unitarian divine.
_Davenant_: Dr. Charles D. (1656–1714), political economist.

220. _as the lion, etc._ ‘Troilus and Cressida,’ III. 3.

221. _Lord Camelford’s attempt._ Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford
(1775–1804), naval commander, tried to go to France to procure a
set of French charts, using a French refugee’s letter of
introduction to Barras, in which he was set forth as one ready
to serve the French Government. The suspicions of the boatmen,
however, were aroused, and he was handed over to the English
Government officials. He was examined by the Privy Council, and,
although set at liberty, the Admiralty disapproved of his action
and relieved him of the command of his ship.

_Girton._ Thomas Girtin (1775–1802), water-colour painter, of whom
Turner said, ‘Had Tom Girtin lived, I should have starved.’

_Artois._ Jacques d’Artois, Flemish painter of rural scenes
(1613?–1678).

_Barry, the painter._ James Barry (1741–1806), painter of the
large pictures ‘Human Culture’ for the Society of Arts.

222. _his verses on young statesmen._ A political _jeu d’esprit_ ‘On
the Young Statesmen’ attributed to Dryden.

_Paul Benfield._ See note to p. 176.

_C. Grey, M.P._ (1764–1845), afterwards the 2nd Earl Grey.

_Lord S——’s Address._ Charles, 3rd Earl Stanhope (1753–1816), of
revolutionary sympathies, issued an ‘address to the Nations of
Great Britain and Ireland’ against the proposed Union.

_‘the Sorcerer’ ... Veil Weber._ An edition of _The Sorcerer_, a
Tale, from the German of Veit Weber, was published in London in
1795.

_Knight._ Thomas Knight (d. 1820).

224. _S——, a painter._ Probably John Smart (1741–1811), miniature
painter, who was in India for some years between 1788 and 1797.

_Dr. Drennan._ William Drennan (1754–1820), M.D., Irish poet, and
a leader of the United Irishmen.

225. _Metzu._ Gabriel Metzu (1615–1658), Dutch painter.

226. _Incledon._ Charles Incledon (1763–1826), vocalist.

_Master Field._ John Field (1782–1837). After his _début_ as an
infant prodigy (he had played at a public concert with Clementi
in 1794 or–95) he went on a continental tour with Clementi, and
finally settled down in Russia, where his music was much
appreciated.

_Brothers._ Richard Brothers (1757–1824), fanatic, who set forth
in 1793 as the nephew of the Almighty.

227. _R. A._ R. Adair. See note to p. 169.

228. _Mr Drummond._ Samuel Drummond (1765–1844), portrait and
historical painter.

_Cadell._ Thomas Cadell the younger (1773–1836).

_Brown’s travels._ See note to p. 204.

_Secret._ 1799. By Edward Morris.

_Feudal Times._ 1799. By George Colman the younger.

230 _Deaf and Dumb_, or the Orphan protected, an historical drama
taken from the French of J. N. Bouilly (under the name of
Herbert Hill). 1801.

232. _Travels in France._ Travels from Hamburg, through Westphalia,
Holland, and the Netherlands, to Paris. 1804. 2 vols.

235. _The Escapes_, or the Water-Carrier. Covent Garden, Oct. 14, 1801.

_A Tale of Mystery._ Covent Garden, Nov. 13, 1802.

_The Lady of the Rock._ Feb. 12, 1805, Drury Lane.

_The Vindictive Man._ A Comedy, 1806, Drury Lane.

236. _the Theatrical Recorder._ See note to p. 76.

_‘Tales in Verse.’_ Critical, Satirical, and Humorous, 1806. 2
vols.

_‘Brian Perdue.’_ Memoirs of Bryan Perdue, 1805. 3 vols.?

242. _our worthy and liberal friend G._ Godwin.

245. _snows._ Brig-like vessels.

_Pocock._ Robert Pocock of Gravesend. His ‘Gravesend Water
Companion, describing all the towns, churches, villages,
parishes, and gentlemen’s seats, as seen from the River Thames,
between London Bridge and Gravesend Town,’ was published in
1798.

_traject._ Passage.

246. _The potentate of the North ... Peter ... Paul._ Probably the
Czars Paul (1754–1801) and Peter the Great (1672–1725) are
intended. Paul, an imperious and capricious Emperor, reigned
1796–1801.

251. _Culpepper._ Nicholas Culpeper (1616–1654), herbalist.

252. _Pontoppidan._ Eric Pontoppidan (1698–1764), author of ‘The
Natural History of Norway.’

255. _ancient Pistol._ ‘Merry Wives of Windsor’ and ‘Henry IV.’

267. _Mr Professor Dugald Stewart_, philosopher and metaphysician
(1753–1828).

268. _Les Veillées du Chateau._ See note to p. 104.

_Madame de Genlis._ Stephanie Félicité du Crest de Saint-Aubin,
Countess de Genlis (1746–1830), a voluminous writer.

270. _Theatre d’Education._ ‘Théâtre à l’usage des jeunes personnes’
(1779–80). ‘Théâtre de Société’ (1781).

271. _Lord Kaimes’s Sketches of Man._ Henry Home, Lord Kames
(1696–1782). ‘Sketches of the History of Man’ (1774).

273. _Mrs. Colles._ ? Mrs. Cole, Holcroft’s daughter, see p. 143, note.

278. Note. _The Pantisocrasy Scheme._ The Utopian ‘all men are equal’
scheme, advocated by Southey, Coleridge, and Lovell (c. 1794).

279. _Mr Dermody._ Thomas Dermody (1775–1802).

_Robert Lovell_ (1770?–1796). The associate of Southey and
Coleridge in their plan for an ideal life on the banks of the
Susquehanna. The three friends married three sisters.

280. _Mergées._ Mr W. C. Hazlitt writes that this name should be
Merger.

281. _From Madame de Genlis._ This letter would seem to be the one to
which Holcroft replied. See p. 268.

LIBER AMORIS

The facts relating to the episode in Hazlitt’s life which is the subject of this book are referred to in the General Introduction to the present edition (see vol. i. pp. xviii, xix), but it may be useful to give here a brief summary of them, and to refer shortly to the few later books which throw further light upon the matter.

Before the autumn of 1819 Hazlitt and his wife had ceased to live together, and in 1820 Hazlitt went to lodge in the house of a tailor named Walker, at No. 9 Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, where, on August 16, he first saw the heroine of this book, Sarah Walker, the elder of his landlord’s two unmarried daughters. Some time in the same year (1820), or in the following year, Mrs. Hazlitt agreed, or rather, as we must assume (since she afterwards took the Oath of Calumny), decided to take proceedings for divorce under the Scottish law, for which purpose it was necessary for both parties to go to Scotland. Hazlitt accordingly started for Edinburgh early in 1822, and reached Scotland in February, after having been detained for a time at Stamford, where he began ‘a book of our conversations (I mean mine and the statue’s), which I call LIBER AMORIS.’ Mrs. Hazlitt did not arrive in Edinburgh till April 21, and the business of the divorce was not finally settled till July. Hazlitt spent the greater part of the time between March and July either in Edinburgh or at Renton Inn, Berwickshire, whence he addressed several of his letters to his friend, P. G. Patmore, and where he wrote some of the essays which subsequently appeared in vol. ii. of _Table Talk_. In May he delivered two lectures at Glasgow, one (May 6) on Milton and Shakespeare, the other (May 13) on Thomson and Burns. From Glasgow he seems to have gone for a short trip to the Highlands with his friend Sheridan Knowles, to whom he afterwards addressed the concluding letters of _Liber Amoris_. Towards the end of May he paid a hurried visit to London, returning to Scotland early in June. The book itself was published anonymously by John Hunt in 1823, the copyright being purchased from Hazlitt by C. H. Reynell for £100.

It is unnecessary to refer to the many merely critical comments on the book and its story, and it remains only to mention the works which may be regarded as additional and authoritative sources of information. P. G. Patmore devoted to the subject one chapter (vol. iii. pp. 171–188) of his lengthy recollections of Hazlitt in _My Friends and Acquaintance_ (3 vols., 1854), and published extracts from some of the letters he had received from Hazlitt. Further extracts from the same correspondence and extracts from the journal kept by Mrs. Hazlitt in Scotland appeared in Mr W. C. Hazlitt’s _Memoirs of William Hazlitt_ (2 vols., 1867). All these letters (with a few trifling exceptions) and the whole of Mrs. Hazlitt’s journal were printed from the original MSS. in Mr Le Gallienne’s edition of _Liber Amoris_, published in 1894 (see Bibliographical Note, _ante_, p. 284). This edition contains also a transcript of the original MS. of _Liber Amoris_ (Part 1.) (believed to be in the handwriting of Patmore with additions written by Hazlitt), and (besides Mr Le Gallienne’s introduction) an unsigned essay by Mr W. C. Hazlitt, entitled ‘Hazlitt from another point of view.’ B. W. Procter (Barry Cornwall), who visited Hazlitt at Southampton Buildings, referred to the subject in his Recollections of Men of Letters (see _Bryan Waller Procter, An Autobiographical Fragment_, 1877, pp. 180–82). Finally, in _Lamb and Hazlitt_ (1900), Mr W. C. Hazlitt published for the first time a MS. which contains Hazlitt’s comment on the experiences of Patmore (recorded in the form of a Diary), from March 4 to March 16, 1822, during which time he appears to have been (at Hazlitt’s request) a lodger at No. 9 Southampton Buildings. This MS. is entirely in Hazlitt’s handwriting.

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288. _‘with looks,’ etc._ _Il Penseroso_, l. 38.

290. _‘But I will come again, my love,’ etc._ Burns’s song, ‘O, my luve
is like a red, red rose.’

_‘Pensive nun,’ etc._ _Il Penseroso_, l. 31.

294. _Mr M——._ Sarah Walker’s elder sister had married a man called
Roscoe, who is referred to in the _Liber Amoris_ as ‘Mr M——.’

300. _‘What is this world,’ etc._ Chaucer’s _Canterbury Tales_ (_The
Knightes Tale_, ll. 2777–79).

301. _‘So shalt thou find me,’ etc._ Byron’s _Sardanapalus_, Act IV.
Scene 1.

_Rosetta._ In Bickerstaffe’s _Love in a Village_, one of the most
successful parts played by Catherine Stephens (1794–1882). See
Hazlitt’s Dramatic Essays.

302. _Mr Macready._ William Charles Macready (1793–1873) appears to
have played Romeo at Covent Garden on Jan. 24, 1822.

303. _‘Oh! if I thought,’ etc._ _Troilus and Cressida_, Act III. Scene
2.

304. _C. P——, Esq._ Peter George Patmore (1786–1855), journalist, and
author of _Imitations of Celebrated Authors_, _etc._ (1826),
_Chatsworth, or the Romance of a Week_ (1844), _The Mirror of
the Months_ (1826), and other works. His recollections of
Hazlitt in _My Friends and Acquaintance_ (3 vols., 1854) are
interesting and even valuable if allowance is made for some
exaggeration. He was the father of Coventry Patmore. See B.
Champney’s, _Memoirs and Correspondence of Coventry Patmore_
(1900), chap. ii.

_Bees-Inn._ Renton Inn, on the London Road, near Grant’s House in
Berwickshire, forty-one miles from Edinburgh.

306. ‘_Of such sweet breath composed._’ Hamlet, Act III. Scene 1.

‘_Answer me that, Master Brook._’

‘Think of that, Master Brook.’

_Merry Wives of Windsor_, Act III. Scene 5.

_Letter III._ From Edinburgh, March 30, 1822.

307. _Letter IV._ From Edinburgh, April 21, 1822.

308. _‘To lip a chaste one,’ etc._

‘To lip a wanton in a secure couch,
And to suppose her chaste.’

_Othello_, Act IV. Scene 1.

_Strike my forehead against the stars._

‘Quod si me lyricis vatibus inseris,
Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.’

Horace, Odes, I. 1. 35–36.

_As Rousseau said._ ‘Ce fut dans ce bosquet qu’assis avec elle sur
un banc de gazon, sous un acacia tout chargé de fleurs, je
trouvai, pour rendre les mouvements de mon cœur, un langage
vraiment digne d’eux.’—_Confessions_, Liv. IX., p. 393 (édit.
Garnier).

_Letter V._ From Edinburgh, April 7, 1822.

_From Montrose._ This is of course fiction, like Hazlitt’s
statement in the advertisement that the author was a native of
North Britain (see _ante_, p. 285).

309. _‘Treason domestic,’ etc._ _Macbeth_, Act III. Scene 2.

311. _Letter VII._ From Edinburgh, June 20–21, 1822.

_‘And carved on every tree,’ etc._ _As You Like It_, Act III.
Scene 2.

312. _Letter VIII._ From Renton Inn, June 9, 1822.

314. _Its mighty heart, etc._ Cf. ‘And all that mighty heart was lying
still’ in Wordsworth’s Sonnet ‘Composed upon Westminster
Bridge.’

_The Prince of Critics, etc._ Francis Jeffrey (1773–1850) had
lived at Craigcrook (on the north-eastern slope of Corstorphine
Hill, not on ‘the far-off Pentland Hills’) since 1815. Hazlitt
had already contributed several articles to the _Edinburgh
Review_, and had met Jeffrey during his visit to Scotland.

314. _As I read of Amy and her love._ _Kenilworth_ had been published
in the preceding year (1821).

315. _Letter IX._ From Edinburgh, July 3, 1822.

316. ‘_Made my wedded wife yestreen._’ Burns’s _Lament for James, Earl
of Glencairn_, st. 10.

_Like Lady Bellaston._ _Tom Jones_, Book XV. Chap. ix.

_The old song._ Hazlitt refers perhaps to Richard Hewitt’s ‘Roslin
Castle,’ beginning ‘’Twas in that season of the year,’ published
in Johnson’s _The Scots Musical Museum_ (1787–1803), and praised
by Burns.

317. _Letter X._ From Renton Inn, June 18, 1822.

‘_All below was not the fiend’s._’ _King Lear_, Act IV. Scene 6.

319. _Hysterica passio._ Cf. _King Lear_, Act II. Scene 4.

_Letter XI._ From Edinburgh (?), June 25, 1822.

320. _‘She’s gone,’ etc._

‘She’s gone; I am abused, and my relief
Must be to loathe her.’

_Othello_, Act III. Scene 3.

321. _Letter XII._ This is merely a postscript to the former letter
(XI.).

‘_Love is not love,’ etc._ Shakespeare’s Sonnets, No. CXVI.

325. _Letter XIII._ July 8, 1822.

_‘I have mistook,’ etc._

‘I do mistake my person all this while:
Upon my life, she finds, although I cannot,
Myself to be a marvellous proper man.’

_Richard III_, Act. I. Scene 2.

328. _Addressed to J. S. K——._ Hazlitt’s friend, James Sheridan Knowles
(1784–1862), the dramatist, who at this time lived at Glasgow.
There is a reference to him in Hazlitt’s _Spirit of the Age_, at
the end of the essay on Elia and Geoffrey Crayon.

_Smollett’s monument._ Erected by James Smollett, the novelist’s
cousin, whom Johnson and Boswell visited on their way from the
Highlands. The Latin inscription for the monument was partly the
work of Johnson (Boswell’s _Life, etc._, ed. G. B. Hill, v.
366–68).

_Logan’s beautiful verses to the cuckoo._ Published originally by
John Logan (1748–1788) in a volume entitled ‘Poems on Several
Occasions, by Michael Bruce’ (1770). It appeared again in 1781,
with a few alterations, in ‘Poems, by the Rev. Mr Logan, one of
the ministers of Leith.’ Some difference of opinion still exists
as to the authorship, which is claimed by some for Michael Bruce
(1746–1767), a fellow-student of Logan’s at Edinburgh
University. See _Notes and Queries_, 9th Ser., vii. 466; viii.
70, 148, 312, 388, 527.

Note. The verses begin, ‘Hail, beauteous stranger of the grove.’
The stanza quoted by Hazlitt is the sixth.

329. _The Trossacs._ Whatever the ‘blue ridges’ may have been which
Hazlitt saw, they were certainly nowhere near the Trossachs.

‘_Italiam, Italiam._’ Possibly from Filicaja’s Sonnet (LXXXVII.)
to Italy, beginning ‘Italia, Italia, o tu cui feo la sorte,’ and
translated by Byron in _Childe Harold_ (Canto IV., St. 42).

330. _Heaved her name, etc._ _King Lear_, Act IV. Scene 3.

_How near am I, etc._ Quoted, with omissions, from Middleton’s
_Women beware Women_ (_Works_, ed. Dyce, iv. 569–70).

331. _‘Quicquid agit,’ etc._

‘Illam quidquid agit, quoquo vestigia movit
Componit furtim subsequiturque decor.’

From the first of the Sulpicia poems (not the work of Tibullus) in
the fourth book of the Elegies.

334. _‘See with what a waving air,’ etc._ B. W. Procter’s (Barry
Cornwall’s) _Mirandola_ (Act I. Scene 3).

335. _‘What conjurations,’ etc._ _Othello_, Act I. Scene 3.

336. ‘_Nature and Art._’ By Mrs. Inchbald, published in 1796.

337. ‘_Ugly all over with hypocrisy._’ See _ante_, note to p. 130.

340. _At once he took, etc._

‘Then took his Muse at once and dipt her Full in the middle of the Scripture.’

Gay, ‘Verses to be placed under the Picture of Sir Richard Blackmore,
England’s Arch-Poet, etc.’

341. ‘_Drugged this posset._’ _Macbeth_, Act II. Scene 2.

342. ‘_Bestow some of my tediousness upon you._’

‘_Dogberry._ But truly, for mine own part, if I were tedious as a
king, I could find it in my heart to bestow it all of your
worship.

_Leonato._ All thy tediousness on me, ah?’

_Much Ado About Nothing_, Act III. Scene 5.

343. _‘Of tears which sacred pity,’ etc._ _As You Like It_, Act II.
Scene 7.

347. _The False Florimel._ _The Faerie Queene_, Book III. Canto viii.

_The man in the Arabian Nights._ See The History of Sidi Nouman.

350. ‘_Turned all to favour and to prettiness._’ _Hamlet_, Act IV.
Scene 5.

356. _Heroes, according to Rousseau._ Cf. ‘Le brave ne fait ses preuves
qu’aux jours de bataille: le vrai héros fait les siennes tous
les jours; et ses vertus, pour se montrer quelquefois en pompe,
n’en sont pas d’un usage moins fréquent sous un extérieur plus
modeste.’ _Discours sur la vertu la plus nécessaire aux héros._

CHARACTERISTICS

360. _The wish is often ‘father to the thought.’_ _Henry IV._, Part II.