Chapter XLIX: Part II: , Book I. Chap. 17

‘_Tasteless monster_,’ _etc._ ‘A faultless monster whom the
world ne’er saw.’ John Sheffield, Duke of Buckinghamshire,
_Essay on Poetry_.

‘_If that they love_,’ _etc._ Cf. ‘But that I love the gentle
Desdemona,’ etc. _Othello_, Act I. Sc. 2.

_Berlin and Milan decrees._ Of Napoleon, 1806 and 1807.

430. _Like the lady in the lobster._ Cf. Herrick’s _Hesperides_, No.
224 (The Faerie Temple).

‘_As if he would confine_,’ _etc._ _Samson Agonistes_, 307.

‘_A beard so old and white._’ ‘’Gainst a head so old and white
as this.’ _King Lear_, Act III. Sc. 2.

_Nahum Tate’s Lear._ Produced in 1681.

431. ‘_There’s sympathy._’ _The Merry Wives of Windsor_, Act II. Sc.
1.

432. ‘_Applauds you_,’ _etc._ _Macbeth_, Act V. Sc. 3.

433. ‘_He must live to please_,’ _etc._ Johnson, Prologue at the
opening of Drury Lane Theatre, 1747, l. 54.

‘_Lard the lean earth_,’ _etc._ _Henry IV._ Part I., Act II.
Sc. 2.

434. ‘_First, midst, and last._’ Cf. _Paradise Lost_, V. 165.

435. _Shakspear versus Harlequin._ An alteration of _Harlequin’s
Invasion_ produced in 1759.

‘_Charge on heaps_,’ _etc._ Cf. _Troilus and Cressida_, Act
III. Sc. 2.

436. _Quod sic mihi_, _etc._ Horace, _Ars Poetica_, 188.

‘_See o’er the stage_,’ _etc._ Cf. Thomson, _The Seasons_,
winter, 646.

‘_But thou, oh Hope_,’ _etc._ Collins, Ode, _The Passions_,
29-32.

439. _Sir Hugh Middleton’s Head._ The sign of this inn, opposite
Sadler’s Wells, figures in Hogarth’s _Evening_.

440. ‘_Shut their blue-fringed lids_,’ _etc._ Coleridge, _Fears in
Solitude_, 84-6.

_Mr. Booth’s Lear._ Covent Garden, April 13, 1820.

‘_I am every inch a King._’ _King Lear_, Act IV. Sc. 6.

‘_The fiery Duke._’ _Ibid._ Act II. Sc. 4.

441. _Henri Quatre._ A musical romance in three acts by Thomas
Morton.

‘_’Twas Lancelot_,’ _etc._ Leigh Hunt, _The Story of Rimini_.

‘_Ah! brilliant land_,’ _etc._ To this quotation the Editor of
_The London Magazine_ prints the following note: ‘Does our
Correspondent here refer to the ink he has himself shed in
severe criticism of the French National Character.’

442. ‘_The invincible knights of old._’ Wordsworth’s Sonnet, ‘It is
not to be thought of,’ etc.

_Miss M. Tree._ Ann Maria Tree (1801-1862), afterwards Mrs.
Bradshaw, made her first appearance at Covent Garden in 1818.

_The present crisis of affairs._ Hazlitt alludes to the
Revolution in Spain, in 1820.

445. ‘_Accumulate horrors_,’ _etc._ _Othello_, Act III. Sc. 3.

‘_That has outlasted_,’ _etc._ Misquoted from Beaumont and
Fletcher’s _Philaster_, Act V. Sc. 3.

‘_Tore it to tatters_,’ _etc._ _Hamlet_, Act III. Sc. 2.

‘_Hear, Nature, hear_,’ _etc._ The quotations from _King Lear_
in this paragraph are from Act I. Sc. 4.

446. ‘_Compunctious visitings of nature._’ _Macbeth_, Act I. Sc. 5.

‘_Like a phantasma_,’ _etc._ _Julius Caesar_, Act II. Sc. 1.

447. ‘_Dear daughter_,’ _etc._ _King Lear_, Act II. Sc. 4.

‘_Beloved Regan_,’ _etc._ _Ibid._ Act II. Sc. 4.

448. ‘_Appal the guilty_,’ _etc._ Misquoted from _Hamlet_, Act II.
Sc. 2.

‘_Create a soul_,’ _etc._ _Comus_, 562.

‘_The fiery quality_,’ _etc._ _King Lear_, Act II. Sc. 4.

‘_I will do such things_,’ _etc._ _Ibid._ Act II. Sc. 4.

449. ‘_Blow winds_,’ _etc._ _Ibid._ Act III. Sc. 2.

‘_More germane_,’ _etc._ _Hamlet_, Act V. Sc. 2.

‘_How dost_,’ _etc._ _King Lear_, Act III. Sc. 2.

‘_Didst thou give all_,’ _etc._ _Ibid._ Act III. Sc. 3.

‘_What, have his daughters_,’ _etc._ _Ibid._ Act III. Sc. 3.

‘_Was set down._’ _Hamlet_, Act III. Sc. 2.

450. ‘_Aye, every inch a king._’ _King Lear_, Act IV. Sc. 6.

‘_When I do stare_,’ _etc._ _Ibid._ Act IV. Sc. 6.

‘_Pray do not mock me._’ _Ibid._ Act IV. Sc. 6.

‘_Which sacred pity_, _etc._’ _As You Like It_, Act II. Sc. 7.

‘_False gallop._’ _Ibid._ Act III. Sc. 2.

‘_Honest sonsy_,’ _etc._ Burns, _Address to a Haggis_, I.

451. _Artaxerxes._ Cf. _ante_, pp. 192-3.

452. ‘_Concords of sweet sounds._’ _The Merchant of Venice_, Act V.
Sc. 1.

453. l. 15. In _The London Magazine_ the article concludes with a
notice (signed ‘X.’) of a new after-piece at Drury Lane,
entitled _The Lady and the Devil_, and a flattering notice of
_Virginius_ at Covent Garden. Neither of these notices is
written in Hazlitt’s manner, and it is evident from his later
account of Knowles’s tragedy (see pp. 455, _et seq._) that
the notice of _Virginius_ at any rate is the work of another
hand. It would seem that after seeing Kean in _King Lear_
Hazlitt retired for a time to Winterslow.

_The only article_, _etc._ Hazlitt probably refers to his third
article, published in the March number (_ante_, pp. 403, _et
seq._), which was probably written while the theatres were
closed in consequence of the deaths of the Duke of Kent (d.
January 23, 1820) and George III. (d. January 29, 1820).

_Mr. Weathercock._ Thomas Griffiths Wainewright (1794-1852),
afterwards well known as a forger and murderer, was at this
time a regular contributor to _The London Magazine_, chiefly
under the pseudonym of Janus Weathercock. His contributions
were for the most part on the Fine Arts, but in the number
for June 1820 (_Janus’s Jumble_, chap, III.) he wrote some
remarks on the theatres, in the course of which he chaffed
‘Mr. Drama’ (_i.e._ Hazlitt) on some of his theatrical
criticisms, and especially on his article on the minor
theatres published in March. To these remarks Hazlitt replies
in the present essay. For Wainewright himself see the
biographical introduction to Mr. W. C. Hazlitt’s edition
(1880) of his contributions to _The London Magazine_, and Mr.
Bertram Dobell’s _Sidelights on Charles Lamb_ (1903).

454. ‘_Odious in satin_,’ _etc._ ‘Odious! in woollen! ’twould a
saint provoke.’ Pope, _Moral Essays_, I. 246.

‘_Like little wanton boys_,’ _etc._ _Henry VIII._ Act III. Sc.
2.

‘_Inexpressive three._’ Cf. ‘Unexpressive she.’ _As You Like
It_, Act III. Sc. 2.

‘_Written in our heart’s tables._’ _All’s Well that Ends Well_,