Chapter XXX: Book I

‘_Content with riches fineless._’ _Othello_, Act III. Scene 3.

‘_Poor as Winter._’ _Ib._

‘_Self-involved, not dark._’ Cf. ‘Pensive, not sad; in thought
involved, not dark.’ Thomson, _The Castle of Indolence_, Canto
I. Stanza 57.

‘_Enjoys bright day._’ _Comus_, 382.

‘_Kept the noiseless tenour of his way._’ Gray’s _Elegy_, Stanza
19.

‘_Finds tongues_,’ _etc._ _As You Like It_, Act II. Scene 1.

‘_The meanest flow’r_,’ _etc._ Wordsworth, Ode, _Intimations of
Immortality_.

45. ‘_Yet I’ll remember thee_,’ _etc._ Burns, _Lament for James, Earl
of Glencairn_.

_Sir Joshua Reynolds, in endeavouring_, _etc._ Cf. the essays ‘On
Certain Inconsistencies in Sir Joshua Reynolds’s Discourses,
_ante_, pp. 122 _et seq._

46. _The admirable Crichton._ James Crichton (1560–1585?).

_Jedediah Buxton._ For Jedidiah Buxton (1707–1772) see
_Gentleman’s Magazine_, June 1754.

Note. ‘_The force of dulness_,’ _etc._ Cf. ‘The force of Nature
could no further go.’ Dryden, _Under Mr. Milton’s Picture_.

49. _Mediocribus esse_, _etc._ Horace, _Ars Poetica_, 372–3.

_I find from Adam Smith._ _Wealth of Nations_, Book I. chap. i.

_Those nonsensical stories about Lopez de Vega._ See Lord
Holland’s _Some Account of the life and writings of Lope Felix
de Vega Carpio_ (1806), pp. 75–82.

50. _Why does Mr. Kean_, _etc._ See the volume containing Hazlitt’s
theatrical criticisms.

ESSAY VI. CHARACTER OF COBBETT

58. This essay was afterwards republished in the second edition of
_The Spirit of the Age_. See vol. IV. pp. 334–343, and notes
thereto.

ESSAY VII. ON PEOPLE WITH ONE IDEA

59. _Major C—._ John Cartwright (1740–1824), major in the
Nottinghamshire Militia, and author of a large number of tracts,
chiefly on parliamentary reform.

60. _Like the story of the Cosmogony._ _The Vicar of Wakefield_, chap.
xiv.

_Nihil humani_, _etc._ Terence, _Heautontimorumenos_, Act I. Scene
1.

‘_A fee-grief_’ _etc._ _Macbeth_, Act IV. Scene 3.

61. _As Cicero says of study._ ‘Haec studia adolescentiam alunt,
senectutem oblectant,’ _etc._ Cicero, _Pro Archia_, VII. 16.

_As Sancho_, _etc._ _Don Quixote_, Second Part, Book II. chap.
xxxi.

_Dulce ridentem_, _etc._ Horace, _Odes_, I. xxii., 23–4.

‘_Rings the world_,’ _etc._ Cowper, _The Task_, III. 129–130.

62. _Abernethy._ John Abernethy (1764–1831), whose chief work, _An
Essay on the Constitutional Origin of Local Diseases_, appeared
in 1806.

63. _Alderman Wood._ Sir Matthew Wood (1768–1843), lord mayor 1815–16,
and member for the city from 1817 till his death, had recently
(1820) made himself notorious as a champion of Queen Caroline.

_A conceited fellow about town_, _etc._ Hazlitt probably refers to
Wirgmann, the goldsmith, of whom Crabb Robinson gives an amusing
account in his _Diary_ (1872 ed.) Vol. I. pp. 310–311.

_A friend of mine._ John Fearn (1768–1837), of whom Hazlitt gives
some account in the following page. The essay referred to was
_An Essay on Consciousness_ (2nd ed. 4to, 1812). Hazlitt quotes
a long passage from the Essay in _Why Distant Objects Please_.
See _ante_, pp. 260–2.

64. ‘_Poor, unfledged_,’ _etc._ _Cymbeline_, Act III. Scene 3.

65. _As Goldsmith said._ See Boswell’s _Life of Johnson_ (ed. G. B.
Hill), III. 252.

_Yet his Treatise on Human Nature_, _etc._ ‘Never literary attempt
was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell
_dead-born from the press_,’ _etc._ _The Life of David Hume,
Esq. Written by Himself._

_A celebrated lyrical writer._ Wordsworth.

_The motto in the title-page._

‘For why? Because the good old rule
Sufficeth them: the simple plan,
That they should take, who have the power,
And they should keep who can.’
Wordsworth, _Rob Roy’s Grave_.

Note 1. _The Excursion_ was published in a 4to volume in 1814.

Note 2. _Talk we of one Master Launcelot._ _Merchant of Venice_,
Act II. Scene 2.

66. _Mr. Owen._ See _Political Essays_, vol. III. pp. 121 _et seq._

‘_Nor Alps_,’ _etc._ John Dennis, _Ode on the Battle of Aghrim_,
St. 3. See _The Art of Sinking in Poetry_ (Pope’s _Works_, ed.
Elwin and Courthope, X. 382). ‘Apennines’ should be ‘Pyrenæaus.’

67. _Letter to Mr. William Smith._ See _Political Essays_, vol. III.
210–232.

‘_That he puts his hand_,’ _etc._ See _The Fudge Family in Paris_,