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_The Elgin marbles._ See Vol. i. p. 143 and note.

‘_Hard money._’ Specie opposed to paper currency. Cf. ‘Your mother
has a hundred pounds in hard money’ etc. Farquhar, _The
Recruiting Officer_, Act IV. Scene 3.

‘_Number numberless._’ _Paradise Regained_, III. 310 [numbers].

‘_Casual fruition_,’ _etc._ _Paradise Lost_, IV. 766–7.

17. _W—._ Richard Wilson.

18. _A friend of mine._ Northcote, presumably, whose _Life of Sir
Joshua Reynolds_ had been praised in _The Edinburgh Review_
(vol. xxiii. pp. 263 _et seq._)

_A friend had bought_, _etc._ Mr. W. C. Hazlitt suggests that this
was Haydon.

19. _Richardson, in his Essays._ _A Discourse on the Science of a
Connoisseur_ (_Essays_, 1773, pp. 327 _et seq._)

20. ‘_Guido Reni_,’ _etc._ Richardson, _Essays_, 1773, pp. 217–8.

21. _Gandy._ William Gandy (died 1729). See Hazlitt’s _Conversations
of James Northcote_, _ante_, p. 345. A short Memoir of Gandy
forms the Appendix to Northcote’s _Life of Reynolds_.

_Poor Dan. Stringer._ Cf. _ante_, pp. 345–6.

‘_Swallowing the tailor’s news._’ _King John_, Act IV., Scene 2.

‘_Bastards of his genius_,’ _etc._ Cf. Vol. iv. p. 209.

ESSAY III. ON THE PAST AND FUTURE.

22. _When Sterne in the Sentimental Journey._ _A Sentimental Journey_,
‘Character. Versailles.’

23. ‘_The thoughts of which_,’ _etc._ Cf. ‘Yet loss of thee would
never from my heart.’ _Paradise Lost_, IX. 912.

‘_What though the radiance_,’ _etc._ Wordsworth, Ode, _Intimations
of Immortality_, 179 _et seq._

‘_Retrace its footsteps_,’ _etc._ _Paradise Lost_, XI. 329–333.

‘_And see how dark_,’ _etc._ Wordsworth, _Lines written while
sailing in a boat at evening_.

23. ‘_In our heart’s tables._’ _All’s Well that Ends Well_, Act I.
Scene 1.

‘_All the life of life was flown._’

‘In weary being now I pine,
For a’ the life of life is dead,’
Burns, _Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn_, Stanza 6.

Cf. also ‘Till youth and genial years are flown,
And all the life of life is gone,’

from Thomson’s song addressed to Fortune and beginning—

‘For ever, Fortune, wilt thou prove,’ etc.

_Norman Court._ See _Memoirs of William Hazlitt_, II. 14–15. and
W. Hazlitt the younger’s Preface to the 1850 edition of
_Winterslow_.

25. ‘_Running through the story_,’ _etc._ _Othello_, Act I. Scene 3.

‘_Beguiled them_,’ _etc._ _Ib._

_Posthæc meminisse juvabit._ Virgil, _Æneid_, I. 203.

26. ‘_Calm contemplation_,’ _etc._ Wordsworth, _Laodamia_, 72.

27. ‘_Catch glimpses_,’ _etc._ Wordsworth, Sonnet, ‘The world is too
much with us.’

‘_I also was an Arcadian._’ This saying, or its Latin equivalent,
‘et ego in Arcadia,’ often quoted by Hazlitt in connection with
Poussin’s picture, has been much discussed in _Notes and
Queries_. See 4th Ser., I. 509, 561, etc. Goethe adopted it as a
motto for his _Travels in Italy_.

‘_Que peu de chose_,’ _etc._ Cf. ‘Je vous exhorte à jouir, autant
que vous pourrez, de la vie qui est peu de chose,’ etc.
Voltaire, Letter to Madame du Deffand, Oct. 13, 1759.

_Respice finem._ A tag, quoted in _The Comedy of Errors_, Act IV.
Scene 4. See _Notes and Queries_, 5th Series, VI. 313, where the
line ‘si quid agas prudenter agas, et respice finem’ is quoted
from the fable ‘De accipitre et columbis’ in _Fabulae Variorum
Auctorum_ (Francof. 1560), p. 503.

‘_The high endeavour_,’ _etc._ Cowper, _The Task_, V. 901.

‘_Oh God! methinks_,’ _etc._ _Henry VI._, Part III. Act II. Scene
5.

29. ‘_The tear forgot_,’ _etc._ Gray, _On a Distant Prospect of Eton
College_, Stanza 5.

30. _Recorded by Spence._ _Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters of
Books and Men. Collected from the Conversation of Mr. Pope,
etc._ (edit. 1820), pp. 116–7.

ESSAY IV. ON GENIUS AND COMMON SENSE.

33. _Mr. Burke, by whom_, _etc._ Cf. _Conversations of James
Northcote_, _ante_, p. 366.

_Windham in one of his Speeches._ Speech on the Conduct of the
Duke of York, March 14, 1809. _Speeches_, III. 205.

34. _One of the persons_, _etc._ No doubt John Thelwall (1764–1834),
who was acquitted in December, 1794, and retired to Brecon in
1798. Hazlitt afterwards became acquainted with him. Among his
_Poems_ (1801) is an epic entitled ‘Edwin of Northumbria.’

35. Note. ‘_Sound it_,’ _etc._ _Hamlet_, Act III. Scene 2.

36. ‘_Make assurance_,’ _etc._ _Macbeth_, Act IV. Scene 1.

‘_Shuts the gates_,’ _etc._ Gray, _Elegy_, Stanza 17.

_Mr. Burke said._ _Reflections on the Revolution in France_
(_Select Works_, ed. Payne, II. 102).

37. _Come home to the business_, _etc._ Bacon, Dedication to the
_Essays_.

_Ultima ratio regum._ See vol. III., note to p. 44.

‘_There’s the rub_,’ _etc._ ‘There’s the respect that makes
calamity of so long life.’ _Hamlet_, Act III. Scene 1.

37. ‘_A compost heap._’ Cf. ‘A new accession to the loaded compost
heap of corrupt influence.’ Burke, _Speech on Economical Reform_
(_Works_, Bohn, II. 109).

39. ‘_What! man_,’ _etc._ _Macbeth_, Act IV. Scene 3.

_The passage in the same play._ _Ib._, Act I. Scene 6.

40. _The Judgment of Solomon._ In the Louvre Gallery.

‘_Sure trailing._’ Cf.

‘And I do think, or else this brain of mine
Hunts not the trail of policy so sure
As it hath used to do.’
_Hamlet_, Act II. Scene 2.

‘_As if his will_,’ _etc._ Hazlitt quotes from one of his own
notices of Kean’s Richard (_Morning Chronicle_, Feb. 15, 1814).

_Painter in his fight with Oliver._ Edward Painter (1784–1852) was
defeated by Tom Oliver (1782–1864) in May 1814, but defeated him
in July 1820.

41. _The figure of Elymas._ In one of the Cartoons.

ESSAY V. THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED.

42. ‘_As one, in suffering_,’ _etc._ _Hamlet_, Act III. Scene 2.

‘_Knew all qualities_,’ _etc._ _Othello_, Act III. Scene 3.

‘_A pipe for the Muse’s finger_,’ _etc._ Cf. ‘That they are not a
pipe for fortune’s finger to sound what stop she please.’
_Hamlet_, Act III. Scene 2.

43. ‘_To descry new lands_,’ _etc._ _Paradise Lost_, I. 290–1.

‘_Fierce extremes_,’ _etc._ _Ib._ II. 599.

‘_Of the earth, earthy._’ _I Corinthians_, XV. 47.

‘_Darkness that may be felt._’ _Exodus_, X. 21.

‘_Palpable obscure._’ _Paradise Lost_, II. 406.

44. ‘_Look abroad into universality._’ Bacon, ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING,