Chapter XXVII: Act I: Scene 2

8. ‘_Light thickened._’

‘Light thickens; and the crow
Makes wing to the rooky wood.’
_Macbeth_, Act III. Scene 2.

_Wilson._ Richard Wilson (1714–1782). See _Conversations of
Northcote_, _ante_, pp. 380, 438, 458.

_It was not so Claude_, _etc._ Claude finally settled in Rome in
1627 and remained there till his death in 1682.

_The first head_, _etc._ See _Memoirs of William Hazlitt_, l. 108
note. The picture, which seems to have been painted near
Manchester in 1803, is still in the possession of Hazlitt’s
family.

9. _With Sir Joshua._ Cf. the second of Hazlitt’s Essays on Sir
Joshua Reynolds’s Discourses, _ante_, pp. 131 _et seq._

‘_As in a glass darkly_‘, _etc._ _I Corinthians_, xiii. 12.

10. ‘_Sees into the life of things._’ Wordsworth, _Lines composed a
few miles above Tintern Abbey_.

_Jan Steen, or Gerard Dow._ Jan Steen (1626–1679), and Gerard Dow
(1613–1675).

‘_Mist_,’ _etc._ _Paradise Lost_, V. 435–6.

_Richardson._ The _Essays_ of Jonathan Richardson (1665–1745),
which originally appeared in 1715 and 1719, were published in
two volumes in 1725, and in one volume, edited by his son, in
1773. See pp. 297–8 of the one volume edition. Vasari tells this
story of Michael Angelo and the Pope.

11. ‘_That you might almost say_,’ _etc._

‘—— so distinctly wrought
That one might almost say, her body thought.’
John Donne, _An Anatomy of the World, Second Anniversary_, 245–6.

12. _Old Abraham Tucker._ See vol. iv. pp. 371–385.

‘_The source_,’ &c. See Northcote’s _Life of Reynolds_, II. 286.

_A picture of my father._ Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1806.
See Memoirs of William Hazlitt, I. III.

_Gribelin’s etchings._ In the second (1714) and subsequent
editions of Shaftesbury’s _Characteristics_.

‘_Riches fineless_.’ _Othello_, Act III. Scene 3.

‘_Ever in the haunch of winter sings._’ _Henry IV._, Part II. Act
IV. Scene 4.

13. ‘_I also am a painter._’ See Vasari’s _Lives_ (ed. Blashfield and
Hopkins), III. 32, note 28.

_Mr. Skeffington._ Sir Lumley St. George Skeffington (1771–1850),
author of _The Sleeping Beauty_ and other plays, and a friend of
the Regent’s, succeeded his father as baronet in 1815.

_The battle of Austerlitz._ December 2, 1805.

_He himself is gone to rest._ Hazlitt’s father died on July 16,
1820.

ESSAY III. THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED.

13. ‘_Whate’er Lorraine_,’ _etc._ Thomson, _The Castle of Indolence_,