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‘_It was well said_,’ _etc._ See _ante_, note to p. 161.

‘_Fallen first_,’ _etc._ _Hamlet_, Act II. Scene 2.

‘_Lost the immortal part_,’ _etc._ _Othello_, Act II. Scene 3.

‘_The guide_,’ _etc._

‘The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse,
The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul
Of all my moral being.’
Wordsworth, _Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey_.

206. _Sir Walter Scott._ ‘Scott’s baronetcy,’ says Lockhart, ‘was
conferred on him, not in consequence of any Ministerial
suggestion, but by the King personally, and of his own
unsolicited motion; and when the Poet kissed his hand he said to
him: “I shall always reflect with pleasure on Sir Walter Scott’s
having been the first creation of my reign.”’ The baronetcy was
Gazetted on March 30, 1820.

‘_When in Auvergne_,’ _etc._ Quoted inaccurately from _Quentin
Durward_, Chap. i.

‘_Reason is the queen_,’ _etc._ Hazlitt quotes a passage of his
own. See _Political Essays_, Vol. III., pp. 90–1.

207. ‘_The unreasonableness of the reason_,’ _etc._ See _Don Quixote_,