Chapter VII: October 22. Numbered VIII

_Those faultless monsters which the art_ [world]. From the Essay on Poetry of John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham.

_Hand-writing on the wall._ _Daniel_ v. 5.

130. _Vice to be hated._ Pope, _Essay on Man_, II. 217–18.

131. _Girodet._ Anne Louis Girodet-De-Roussy-Trioson (1767–1824), French historical painter. The picture ‘Endymion’ is one of his best known works.

132. _Mezentius._ See the _Æneid_, VIII. 485.

_Quod sic mihi ostendis._ Horace, _Ars Poet._, 188.

_With hideous ruin._ _Paradise Lost_, I. 46.

_Accumulated horror._

‘On horror’s head horrors accumulate.’
_Othello_, Act III. Sc. 3.

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133. _It out-herods Herod._ _Hamlet_, Act III. Sc. 2.

Note. _Dip it in the ocean._ _A Sentimental Journey_, The Wig, Paris.

Note. _Perilous stuff that weighs upon the heart._ _Macbeth_, Act V. Sc. 3.

136. _Like stars, shoot madly_ [start] _from their spheres_. _Hamlet_,