Chapter L: Act I: Sc. 1

455. ‘_Entire affection scorneth_ [hateth],’ _etc._ _The Faerie
Queene_, Book I. Canto VIII. St. 40.

‘_A man’s mind_,’ _etc._ ‘Men’s judgements are a parcel of
their fortunes.’ _Antony and Cleopatra_, Act III. Sc. 13.

‘_Diamond rings_,’ _etc. etc._ Hazlitt quotes from
Wainewright’s article.

‘_We came_,’ _etc._ A hasty adaptation, presumably, of the
famous ‘Veni, vidi, vici.’

_Virginius._ James Sheridan Knowles’s (1784-1862) _Virginius_
was produced at Covent Garden on May 17, 1820.

‘_Strike his lofty head_,’ _etc._ ‘Sublimi feriam sidera
vertice.’ Horace, _Odes_, I. I. 36.

456. _The Virginius and the David Rizzio_, _etc._ Another
_Virginius_, with Kean in the title _role_, was produced at
Drury Lane on May 29, 1820. _David Rizzio_, an opera by
Colonel Hamilton, appeared at the same theatre on June 17.

_A former article._ See _ante_, note to p. 453.

‘_I never saw you_,’ _etc._ _Virginius_, Act IV. Sc. 1.

‘_The lie_,’ _etc._ _Ibid._ Act IV. Sc. 2.

‘_To be sure she will_,’ _etc._ _Ibid._ Act IV. Sc. 2.

‘_Let the forum wait for us!_’ _Ibid._ Act IV. Sc. 1.

‘_The freeborn Roman maid._’ Varied slightly from phrases
applied to Virginia in the play.

457. ‘_Lest the courtiers_,’ _etc._ _The Beggar’s Opera_, Act II.
Sc. 2.

‘_Let the galled jade_,’ _etc._ _Hamlet_, Act III. Sc. 2.

458. ‘_Why are those things hid_,’ _etc._ _Twelfth Night_, Act I.
Sc. 3.

_Mr. Kean at his benefit._ June 12, 1820. The play was _Venice
Preserved_, followed by _The Admirable Crichton_.

_Educated in the fourth form_, _etc._ A gibe at Elliston, who
was educated at St. Paul’s School.

_Cast in the antique mould_, _etc._ The reference is to Kemble.

note. ‘_An honest man_,’ _etc._ Pope, _Essay on Man_, IV. 248.

459. ‘_In this expectation_,’ _etc._ Cf. ‘This was looked for at
your hand, and this was balked.’ _Twelfth Night_, Act III.
Sc. 2.

‘_Nothing can come of nothing._’ ‘De nihilo nihil.’ Persius,
_Satires_, III. 84.

460. _Miss Povey._ Born in 1804, and appeared first at Drury Lane in
1817.

461. ‘_Softly sweet in Lydian measures._’ Dryden, _Alexander’s
Feast_, 97.

_Giovanni in London._ By William Thomas Moncrieff (1794-1857),
originally produced at the Olympic on December 26, 1817.

462. ‘_She forgot to be a woman_,’ _etc._ Misquoted from
_Cymbeline_, Act III. Sc. 4.

‘_Like a new ta’en sparrow._’ _Troilus and Cressida_, Act III.
Sc. 2.

‘_Like marigolds_,’ _etc._ Cf. ‘The marigold, that goes to bed
wi’ the sun,’ etc. _A Winter’s Tale_, Act IV. Sc. 4.

463. _The ‘Great Vulgar and the Small.’_ Cowley, Horace, _Odes_,
III. 1.

‘_Raised so high_,’ _etc._ Cf. ‘High throned above all highth.’
_Paradise Lost_, III. 58.

‘_Such tricks_,’ _etc._ _A Midsummer Night’s Dream_, Act V. Sc.
1.

464. ‘_‘Present no mark._’ _Henry IV._, Part II. Act III. Sc. 2.

‘_You may as well_,’ _etc._ _Ibid._ Act III. Sc. 2.

‘_One bubble_,’ _etc._ Jeremy Taylor, _Holy Dying_, Chap. 1. §
1.

_Her Yarico._ In Colman’s _Inkle and Yarico_ (1787).

‘_We had rather_,’ _etc._ Adapted from _All’s Well that Ends
Well_, Act I. Sc. 1.

465. ‘_In the catalogue_,’ _etc._ Cf. ‘Ay, in the catalogue ye go
for men.’ _Macbeth_, Act III. Sc. 1.

‘_To curl her hair_,’ _etc._ See Congreve’s _The Way of the
World_, Act. II. Sc. 5.

465. ‘_Who rant and fret_,’ _etc._ Misquoted from _Macbeth_, Act V.
Sc. 5.

‘_Vine-covered hills._’ ‘From the vine-cover’d hills and gay
valleys of France.’ From lines ‘written in 1788’ by William
Roscoe (1753-1831). The lines were partly parodied by Canning
and Frere in _The Anti-Jacobin_ (‘La Sainte Guillotine’):
‘From the blood-bedew’d valleys and mountains of France.’ Cf.
vol. VI. p. 189 (_Table Talk_).

‘_And murmur_,’ _etc._ Landor, _Gebir_, Book I.

466. ‘_Sigh his soul_,’ _etc._ Cf. ‘And sighed his soul towards the
Grecian tents.’ _The Merchant of Venice_, Act V. Sc. 1.

467. ‘_A brother of the groves._’ Hazlitt perhaps recalls
Wordsworth’s line, ‘A brother of the dancing leaves’ (_The
Green Linnet_, 34). As originally published (_Poems_, 1807,
II. 81), the line ran, ‘A Brother of the Leaves he seems,’
which is still nearer to Hazlitt’s phrase.

468. _Crockery and Peter Pastoral._ In _Exit by Mistake_ and
_Teazing Made Easy_ respectively.

‘_His tears_,’ _etc._

Cf. ‘The tears which came to Matthew’s eyes
Were tears of light, the oil of gladness.’

Wordsworth, _Matthew_, as published in _Lyrical Ballads_, 1800,
vol. II. p. 121.

‘_Sic transit_,’ _etc._ Thomas à Kempis, _De Imitatione
Christi_, I. 3, 6.

469. ‘_Stands on end_,’ _etc._ Misquoted from _Macbeth_, Act V. Sc.
5.

‘_Let those laugh_,’ _etc._

Cf. ‘Let those love now, who never lov’d before;
Let those who always lov’d, now love the more.’

Parnell, _The Vigil of Venus_.

470. ‘_Compunctious visitings._’ _Macbeth_, Act I. Sc, 5.

_Little Pickle._ In _The Spoilt Child_.

471. _The great cat, Rodilardus._ In Rabelais. See _Pantagruel_, IV.
67.

‘_Dressed in a little brief authority_,’ _etc._ _Measure for
Measure_, Act II. Sc. 2.

472. ‘_You take my house_,’ _etc._ _The Merchant of Venice_, Act IV.
Sc. 1.

‘_Cleansed_,’ _etc._ _Macbeth_, Act V. Sc. 3.

‘_Flesh is heir to._’ _Hamlet_, Act III. Sc. 1.

473. ‘_Not a jot_,’ _etc._ _Othello_, Act III. Sc. 3.

‘_But never more_,’ _etc._ _Ibid._ Act II. Sc. 3.

‘_Never so sure_,’ _etc._ Pope, _Moral Essays_, II. 51-2.

‘_In medio_,’ _etc._ Ovid, _Metamorphoses_, II. 137.

_They hiss the Beggar’s Opera in America._ _The Times_ of Dec.
10, 1817, quotes from New York papers dated Oct. 27 an
account of the refusal of a New York audience to hear _The
Beggar’s Opera_.

474. _The Vampyre._ By James Robinson Planché (1796-1880), adapted
from ‘Le Vampire.’

_The celebrated story._ ‘The Vampyre,’ by John William Polidori
(1795-1821), was published in 1819. Byron had intended
to write a story on the same subject. See _Letters and
Journals_, ed. Prothero, III. 446-453, and IV. 286 and 296.

‘_See how the moon_,’ _etc._ _The Merchant of Venice_, Act V.
Sc. 1.

475. ‘_The Diamond Ring._’ Adapted by Theodore Hook from _He would
be a Soldier_ (1786), and produced Aug. 12, 1820.

476. ‘_Misery_,’ _etc._ _As You Like It_, Act II. Sc. 1.

‘_A load_,’ _etc._ _Henry VIII._, Act III. Sc. 2.

‘_Palsied eld._’ _Measure for Measure_, Act III. Sc. 1.

477. ‘_At last he rose_,’ _etc._ _Lycidas_, 192-3.

‘_As broad_,’ _etc._ Misquoted from _Macbeth_, Act III. Sc. 4.

‘_In act_,’ _etc._ _Othello_, Act I. Sc. 1.

‘_The immediate jewel_,’ _etc._ _Ibid._, Act III. Sc. 3.

‘_Solid pudding_,’ _etc._ Pope, _The Dunciad_, I. 54.

‘_Tenth_,’ _etc._ Pope, _Essay on Man_, I. 246.

_The Calendar of Nature._ Hazlitt seems to refer to Leigh
Hunt’s _The Months_, originally published in the _Literary
Pocket Book_, 1819-20, and there described as a ‘Calendar of
the Seasons.’

‘_Bound our brows withal._’ ‘To grace thy brows withal.’
_Richard III._, Act V. Sc. 5.

_In January_, _etc._ It will be noticed that Hazlitt does not
give an accurate account of the dates and subjects of his
articles.

478. ‘_Being at Illminster_,’ _etc._ Possibly on a visit to John
Hunt, who had retired to the neighbourhood of Taunton. Mr.
W. C. Hazlitt mentions (_Memoirs_, I. xviii.) a report
that Hazlitt contributed for a short time to the _Taunton
Courier_.

Note. ‘_Or mouth_,’ _etc._ _Endymion_, II. 405-6.

Note. ‘_Beautified._’ _Hamlet_, Act II. Sc. 2.

Note. ‘_Oh Scotland_,’ _etc._ Cf. ‘O Jephthah, judge of
Israel,’ etc. _Hamlet_, Act II. Sc. 2.

479. _An able article written for us._ No. X., published in the
October (not September) number.

_No Table-Talk._ The _Table-Talks_ were of course the work of
Hazlitt himself.

_The Lion’s Head._ The name given to two or three editorial
paragraphs prefixed to _The London Magazine_. In the number
for November, 1820, the editor announced for the next number
‘a _chef d’œuvre_ of a _Table Talk_—the best yet, we think.’
This was No. V. ‘On the Pleasure of Painting.’

‘_Has not left her peer._’ _Lycidas_, 9.

‘_Constrain his genius_,’ _etc._ Cf. ‘That Love will not submit
to be controlled by mastery.’ Wordsworth, _The Excursion_,
VI. 163-4.

‘_With mighty wings_,’ _etc._ _Paradise Lost_, I. 20-22.

480. _Encyclopædia Metropolitana._ The publication of this work
began in 1817. Coleridge drew up the scheme, and contributed
the ‘Preliminary Treatise on Method.’

Note. Hazlitt refers to _The Fancy: a Selection from the
Poetical Remains of the late Peter Corcoran, of Gray’s Inn,
Student at Law_, a ‘jeu d’esprit’ by John Hamilton Reynolds,
reviewed in _The London Magazine_, July 1820.

‘_The up-turned eyes_,’ _etc._ _Romeo and Juliet_, Act II. Sc.
2.

481. _Barnaby Brittle._ Founded on Moliere’s _George Dandin_, and
produced at Covent Garden in 1791.

_Disjecta membra poetæ._ ‘Disjecti membra poëtæ.’ Horace,
_Satires_, I. 4-62.

‘_Outlasts a thousand storms_,’ _etc._ Beaumont and Fletcher’s
_Philaster_, Act V. Sc. 3.

482. _Paulo majora canamus._ Virgil, _Eclogues_, IV. 1.

‘_The lily drooping_,’ _etc._ Cf. ‘Than is the lilie upon his
stalke grene.’ _The Canterbury Tales_, The Knighte’s Tale,
1036.

‘_The flowers_,’ _etc._ _A Winter’s Tale_, Act IV. Sc. 4.

Note. See Boswell’s _Life of Johnson_, ed. G. B. Hill, II. 409
n.

483. _Macready’s Zanga._ Macready first appeared as Zanga in Young’s
_Revenge_ on October 30, 1820.

‘_A wife_,’ _etc._ _The Revenge_, Act IV. Sc. 1.

_Wallace._ By C. E. Walker, November 14, 1820.

484. _The Deaf Lover._ By Frederick Pilon (1750-1788), originally
produced in 1780 and revived at Covent Garden in 1819.

‘_But in Adam’s ear_,’ _etc._ _Paradise Lost_, VIII. 1-2.