Chapter XXIX: Book I: 124. A. P. E. Alexander Pope, Esquire

_They take in vain._ _Exodus_, XX. 7.

_It is all one as we should love._ _All’s Well that Ends Well_, I. 1.

125. _Fast-anchored in the deep abyss of time_ [space]. Cowper,
_Retirement_, l. 84.

_The face of heaven so bright._ See _Romeo and Juliet_, II. 2, 20–2.

_Bartlemy-Fair._ A famous fair was held at West Smithfield, 1133–1855
about the time of the festival of St. Bartholomew, August 24.

_The high endeavour and the glad success._ Cowper, _The Task_, V. 901.

126. _Bis repetita crambe._ ‘Occidit miseros crambe repetita
magistros,’ Juvenal, VII. 154.

_Annibal Caracci._ Annibale Caracci (1560–1609), painter of the
Farnese Gallery, in Rome.

127. ‘_Love for Love._’ Congreve’s comedy, 1695.

_Miss Mellon._ Harriet Mellon (1775–1837), later, Duchess of St.
Alban’s. She began on the stage as a child in boys’ parts, was
introduced by Sheridan to London, where she played ‘Lydia Languish’
in _The Rivals_, at Drury Lane, January 1795, and became a popular
hoyden. Mr. Coutts, the banker, fell in love with her, and married
her soon after the death of his wife in 1814, and when he died in
1822 his wealth passed to her. In 1827 she married William, Duke of
St. Alban’s, whose age was 27. After providing handsomely for him,
she left the bulk of her property to Mr. Coutts’ granddaughter, Miss
Angela Burdett.

_Bob Palmer._ (1757–?1805.)

_Bannister._ John Bannister (1760–1836).

ESSAY XIII. ON THE PLEASURE OF HATING

_Lines to a Spider._ Probably those in _The Liberal_ (Byron, Shelley
and Hunt’s Quarterly), vol. II. 177.

128. _The milk of human kindness._ _Macbeth_, I. 5.

_As Mr. Burke observes._ _Sublime and Beautiful_, Part I. § 15. Last
line but one, _matter_, ? a slip for ‘nature.’

129. _We subscribe to new editions of Fox’s Book of Martyrs._ A folio
edition was published by subscription by Thomas Kelly, London, 1811.

_Off, you lendings!_ _Lear_, III. 4.

_Panopticons._ Jeremy Bentham’s name for his method of prison
supervision. See vol. IV. _The Spirit of the Age_, note to p. 197.

129. _Mr. Owen’s impassable Parallelograms._ Cf. vol. III. _Political
Essays_, pp. 121–7.

_Mr. Irving ... Caledonian Chapel._ See vol. IV. _The Spirit of the
Age_, p. 222, _et seq._

_’Tis pretty, though a plague._ _All’s Well that Ends Well_, I. I.

_Upon this bank and shoal of time._ _Macbeth_, I. 7.

130. _Outdo_ [o’er doing] _termagant_. _Hamlet_, III. 2.

_A most._ ? A misprint for ‘almost.’

_That which was luscious as locusts._ _Othello_, I. 3.

131. _Epistle to Robert Southey, Esq._ See the Letter of Elia to
Robert Southey, Esq., in _The London Magazine_, Oct. 1823.

_That I myself have celebrated._ See _ante_, the Essay ‘On the
Conversation of Authors.’

132. _H——_ ? Joseph Hume of the Pipe Office, not the Radical M.P. (See
Lamb’s _Letters_, ed. W. C. Hazlitt, I. 361, note 1).

_Carve them as a dish fit for the Gods._ _Julius Cæsar_, II. I.

_L—— H——_ Leigh Hunt.

_John Scott._ ? John Scott (1783–1821), Editor of _The London
Magazine_, who died from a wound received in a duel from Christie,
Lockhart’s friend.

_Mrs. ——_ Montagu.

_B——_ ? Burney.

_Sans intermission, for hours by the dial._ _As You Like It_, II. 7.

_Fellows of no mark._ _1 King Henry IV._, III. 2.

_——‘s_ ? Hume.

133. _Mr. Washington Irvine a very fine writer._ Cf. vol. IV. _The
Spirit of the Age_.

_Mr. Liston._ John Liston (1776–1846).

134. _Gone into the wastes of time._ ‘But thou among the wastes of
time must go.’ Shakespeare’s _Sonnets_, XII.

_Mr. Moore’s Loves of the Angels._ Of Mr. Moore’s poem, published on
Jan. 1, 1823, five editions were exhausted in one year.

_Sitting in my window._ Beaumont and Fletcher’s _Philaster_, V. 5.

[Heaved from a sheepcote].

_The wine of poetry is drank._

‘The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees
Is left this vault to brag of.’
_Macbeth_, II. 3.

135. _Play_ [sport] _with Amaryllis in the shade_. _Lycidas_, 68.

_Fonthill._ The residence of ‘Vathek’ Beckford.

_To every good work reprobate._ _Epistle to Titus_, i. 16.

136. _Of whom the world was not worthy._ _Epistle to the Hebrews_, xi.
38.

_This was some time a mystery._ ‘This was some time a paradox, but now
the time gives it proof.’ _Hamlet_, III. 1.

_The rose plucked from the forehead of a virtuous love._

‘Takes off the rose
From the fair forehead of an innocent love
And sets a blister there.’
_Hamlet_, III. 4.

137. Note. _The Sentinel._ See vol. VI. _Conversations of James
Northcote_, p. 518, and footnote.

_Daddy Ratton._ In Scott’s _Heart of Midlothian_.

ESSAY XIV. ON DR. SPURZHEIM’S THEORY

137. _Drs. Gall and Spurzheim._ See _ante_, Essay _On Dreams_.

138. _A book where men may read strange matters._ _Macbeth_, I. 5.

_Draws the curtain._ _Twelfth Night_, I. 5.

139. _Whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders._ _Othello_. I. 3.

140. _Here be truths ... dashed and brewed with lies._ Dryden,
_Absalom and Achitophel_, I. 114. Cf. also a similar passage in
Addison (_The Spectator_, 580).

_With other matters of like pith and moment._ Cf. ‘enterprizes of
great pith and moment.’ _Hamlet_, III. I.

_If these things are done in the green tree._ _S. Luke_, xxiii. 31.

141. _The Alchemist._ By Ben Jonson, 1610.

144. _Malebranche._ Nicolas Malebranche (1638–1715), whose _De la
Recherche de la Vérité_ was published in 1674.

146. _Gaubius Gobbo._ ‘Good Launcelot Gobbo,’ _Merchant of Venice_,
II. 2.

147. _There needs no ghost to tell us that._ _Hamlet_, I. 5.

149. _The Wonderful Magazine._ _The Wonderful Magazine, or Marvellous
Chronicle, or New Weekly Entertainer_, a journal of the latter half
of the eighteenth century, with varying titles.

_King Ferdinand._ Possibly the reference is to the Cortes having let
Ferdinand leave Cadiz (whither they had carried him) during the
siege by the French on Oct. 1, 1813, in order to make terms with the
French.

153. _It follows, as the night the day._ _Hamlet_, I. 3.

155. _So as with a difference._ _Hamlet_, IV. 5.

156. Note. _Dr. Combe of Edinburgh._ The phrenological Combes were
George (1788–1858), W.S. and moral philosopher, and his brother,
Andrew (1797–1847), doctor of medicine.

_Fancy in himself._ ‘I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that
wit is in other men.’ _2 King Henry IV._, I. 2.

157. Note. _Squandering glances._ _As You Like It_, II. 7.

ESSAY XV. ON EGOTISM

158. _King Cambyses’ vein._ _1 King Henry IV._, II. 4.

_Vain and self-conceit._ ‘Self and vain conceit,’ _King Richard II._,
III. 2.

_Getting the start of the majestic world._ _Julius Cæsar_, I. 2.

160. _Mr._ —— Mill. See _post_, note to p. 183.

_The present Lord Chancellor._ John Scott, Lord Eldon (1751–1838), who
had no love for literature or art.

_Madame Catalani._ Angelica Catalani (1779–1849) the popular Italian
singer. She made £10,000 in four months in London.

161. _The late Chancellor (Erskine)._ Thomas Erskine, 1750–1823.

162. _Et propter vitam vivendi perdere causas._ Juvenal, VIII. 83.

163. _Wisdom is justified of her children._ _S. Matthew_, xi. 19.

_Throw our bread upon the waters._ _Eccles._, xi. 1.

_When Goldsmith was talking one day._ See Boswell’s _Johnson_ (ed. G.
B. Hill), II. 231.

_Hervey’s Meditations._ The Rev. James Hervey’s (1714–1758)
_Meditations and Contemplations_ were highly esteemed in their day.

164. _Westall._ Richard Westall (1765–1836).

_Angelica Kauffman._ Maria Anna Angelica Kauffmann (1741–1807), a
Swiss painter of (chiefly) female characters, many of which were
engraved by Bartolozzi.

165. _Arkwright._ Sir Richard Arkwright (1732–1792).

166. _A cell of ignorance._ _Cymbeline_, III. 3.

_The only great man in modern times._ Napoleon, of course. He died on
May 5, 1821, of cancer in the stomach.

_Mandeville._ Bernard Mandeville (1670?–1733) author of _The Fable of
the Bees_ (1714).

167. _Forget the things that are behind._ _Philippians_, iii. 13.

168. _Nothing is but what is not._ _Macbeth_, I. 3.

_Goldsmith was ever jealous of beauty in the other sex._ See _ante_,
p. 100.

_Through listening_ [wond’ring] _senates_. Pope’s _Moral Essays_, I.
184–5.

ESSAY XVI. HOT AND COLD

169. _Hot, cold, moist, and dry._ _Paradise Lost_, II. 298.

_Neat-handed Phyllises._ _L’Allegro_, 86.

_Native and endued into that element._ _Hamlet_, IV. 7.

172. _Whose name signifies love._

‘It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.’
_Merry Wives of Windsor_, I. 1.

_To be supped upon._ Cf. _Hamlet_, IV. III. 18.

‘_King._ At supper! where?

_Ham._ Not where he eats, but where he is eaten.’

173. _Here all is conscience._ Chaucer, _Prologue_, 150.

_The quills upon the fretful porcupine._ _Hamlet_, I. 5.

_So drossy and divisible are they._ Dryden, _The Hind and the
Panther_, I. 319.

_Voltaire’s traveller._ See _Histoire des Voyages de Scarmentado_.

174. Note. _Mr. Scarlett._ Probably James Scarlett, afterwards Lord
Abinger, who practised in the Northern Circuit and Lancashire
Sessions till 1807. Hazlitt received a complimentary letter from
Scarlett on the publication of _Principles of Human Action_. (See
_Four Generations of a Literary Family_, I. 92–3, and _Memoirs_, I.
112, and _post_, note to _Principles of Human Action_).

_Sterne asks why a sword._ _Tristram Shandy_, Bk. IX. chap. 33.

Note. _Mr. Shepherd._ See _ante_, note to p. 61.

175. _The sovereign’st thing on earth._ _1 King Henry IV._, I. 3.

_Makes the odds all even._ _Measure for Measure_, III. I.

_Hacquet’s Travels in Carpathia._ Balthasar Hacquet’s (1740–1815) book
was published in 1790–6 at Nürnberg.

176. _Dull, cold winter does inhabit here._ ‘But dead-cold winter must
inhabit here.’ _The Two Noble Kinsmen_, Act II. 1.

_Long purples._ _Hamlet_, IV. 7.

_Take the good the Gods provide them._ Dryden, _Alexander’s Feast_,
105.

_Appliances and means to boot._ _2 King Henry IV._, III. 1.

_‘A man,’ says Yorick, ‘finds an apple.’_ _Tristram Shandy_, III. 34.

ESSAY XVII. THE NEW SCHOOL OF REFORM

180. _Good haters._ Mrs. Piozzi, in her _Anecdotes of the late Samuel
Johnson_ (_Johnsonian Miscellanies_, ed. G. B. Hill, I. 204),
writes: ‘Dear Bathurst (said he to me one day) was a man to my very
heart’s content: he hated a fool, and he hated a rogue, and he hated
a _Whig_; he was a very good _hater_.’ See also vol. I. _The Round
Table_, p. 103.

181. _Right-hand defections._ Scott’s _Heart of Midlothian_, vol. I.
chap. XII.

_A consummation._ ‘Devoutly to be wished.’ _Hamlet_, III. 1.

_What more felicity can fall to creature?_ Spenser’s _Muiopotmos, or
the Fate of the Butterflie_, 27.

183. _Good œillades._ Cf. _Merry Wives_, I. 3, ‘judicious œillades,’
and _King Lear_, IV. 5, ‘strange œillades.’

_Mr. Hobhouse._ John Cam Hobhouse (1786–1869), Byron’s friend.

_One of them has a place at the India House._ James Mill (1773–1836),
who, in spite of his radical opinions, was appointed
Assistant-Examiner of Indian Correspondence in 1819.

_Their attacks on the Edinburgh Review._ _The Westminster Review_,
financed by Bentham and edited by Bowring, was founded in January
1824. Its first numbers contained a series of assaults on the
_Edinburgh_ (Cf. _post_, p. 381); _Redgauntlet_ was damned in the
third number (July 1824, vol. II. p. 179); and the article on
Moore’s _Life of Sheridan_ appeared in the number for October, 1825,
vol. IV. pp. 371–407. The allusion to Sheridan as an unsuccessful
adventurer will be found on p. 404.

184. _A discipline of humanity._ Bacon’s Essays, _Of Marriage and
Civil Life_.

_The treatment of Mr. Buckingham._ James Silk Buckingham (1786–1855)
established at Calcutta in 1818 a paper called _The Calcutta
Journal_, which censured the abuses of the Indian Government, and
was suppressed by John Adams, temporary Governor-General, in April,
1823.

_Mr. Hall._ Robert Hall, the celebrated Baptist preacher (1764–1831).
His removal from Leicester, where he had served as pastor of the
Baptist congregation for twenty years, to Bristol, took place in
1826, when he succeeded Dr. Ryland as head of the Baptist College at
Bristol and pastor of Broadmead Chapel.

185. _Sir Richard Blackmore._ Court physician to William and Anne. He
died in 1729, after having written six epics in sixty books.

186. _Sir Robert Peel ... calico printing._ 1750–1830. He carried on a
cotton factory at Bury with great success, and devoted much time to
the improvement of machinery.

_Elements of Political Economy, by James Mill._ James Mill’s work was
published in 1821.

_Principles of Political Economy._ By John Ramsay M’Culloch
(1789–1864). Published 1820.

_Strange! that such difference there should be._ John Byrom, _On the
Feuds between Handel and Bononcini_.

_Mr. M——._ ? James Mill (1773–1836).

_Mr. P._ Is Thomas Love Peacock is meant? He was the author of
_Rhododaphne_ (1818), the poem possibly referred to as _Rhodope_ in
Hazlitt’s note to p. 187. Peacock attacked poetry in his _Four Ages
of Poetry_, contributed to Ollier’s _Literary Pocket Book_ in 1820,
and was answered by Shelley in his _Defence of Poetry_. Though
Peacock has not been associated with Utilitarianism, yet his place
at the India-House, where he was a fellow-clerk of James Mill’s, may
have lent colour to the assumption that he was ‘one of them.’

_Mr. Pl——._ Francis Place, radical reformer (1771–1854).

_The Last Man._ Thomas Campbell’s poem _The Last Man_ was printed in
the _New Monthly Magazine_, vol. 8, No. 33, 1823. Perhaps Hazlitt
had its title in mind.

188. _Thereafter as it happens._ _2 King Henry IV._, III. 2.
‘Thereafter as they be.’

_Primrose paths._ _Hamlet_, I. 3.

_The Hypocrite._ Bickerstaff’s comedy (1768), based, through _The
Nonjuror_ (1717), on Molière’s _Tartuffe_ (1664).

192. _Swear, with Lord Peter._ _The Tale of a Tub_, Section IV.

_Its quality is not strained._ _Merchant of Venice_, IV. 1.

193. _Dignum_ (_the singer_). Charles Dignum (1765?–1827), of Drury
Lane.

_Suett._ Richard Suett (d. 1805), a comic actor, very popular at Drury
Lane.

‘_No Song, No Supper._’ A musical entertainment of Hoare’s (1790),
with music by Storace. See a letter from Hazlitt to his father
(_Memoirs_, I. 17–18), from which it appears that it was at
Liverpool in 1790 (not 1792) that he saw this piece.

_The false Florimel._ _The Faerie Queen_, Bk. III. canto 8.

_The grinding law of necessity._ The reference here and elsewhere is
to Malthus. See vol. IV. _A Reply to Malthus_ and _The Spirit of the
Age_.

194. _Opens all the cells where memory slept._ Cowper, _The Task_, VI.
11–12.

_Who enters there._ Dante’s _Inferno_, III. 1. 9.

ESSAY XVIII. ON THE QUALIFICATIONS NECESSARY TO
SUCCESS IN LIFE

From _The London Magazine_, vol. I., June 1820, ‘Table Talk, 1.’

195. _The race is not to the swift._ Eccles. ix. 11.

_A Minister of State._ Probably Castlereagh, who led the House of
Commons until, upon his father’s death in April 1821, he became Lord
Londonderry.

196. _Aspiring to be Gods._ Pope’s _Essay on Man_, I. 127–8.

_Appliances and means to boot._ _2 King Henry IV._, III. 1.

_Some trick not worth an egg._ _Coriolanus_, IV. 4.

_There’s but the twinkling of a star._ Butler’s _Hudibras_, Part II.