Chapter XXIX: Act III: Sc. 2 as a ‘love catechism.’

_Mrs. Humby._ Mrs. Humby (fl. 1817–1849) played Luise in
Planché’s _The Green-eyed Monster_ at the Haymarket, Aug. 18,
1828. Wilkinson played Krout.

_Mrs. Goodall’s Rosalind._ Charlotte Goodall, after acting at
Bath, made her first appearance in London (Drury Lane, Oct. 2,
1788) as Rosalind. Nothing is known of her after 1813, when she
was divorced.

122. ‘_Blow, blow_,’ _etc._ _As You Like It_, Act II. Sc. 7.

‘_Strut and fret_,’ _etc._ _Macbeth_, Act V. Sc. 5.

123. ‘_See o’er the stage_,’ _etc._ Cf. Thomson, _The Seasons_,
Winter, 646–8.

‘_Takes his ease._’ Cf. _1 Henry IV._, Act III. Sc. 3.

124. ‘_All that mighty heart_,’ _etc._ Cf. Wordsworth’s Sonnet, _Earth
has not anything to shew more fair, etc._

‘_Thy freedom_,’ _etc._ Cf. ‘Thy beauty hath made me effeminate.’
_Romeo and Juliet_, Act III. Sc. 1.

‘_Teddy the Tiler._’ A farce by G. H. B. Rodwell (1800–1852),
produced at Covent Garden, Feb. 8, 1830.

‘_Robert the Devil._’ A ‘Musical Romance’ by Raymond, produced at
Covent Garden, Feb. 2, 1830.

‘_What avails_,’ _etc._ The Rev. Sneyd Davies, _To the Honourable
and Reverend F. C._ (Dodsley, _A Collection of Poems_, VI.
138).

‘_The frozen winter_,’ _etc._ Hazlitt is quoting loosely from
_Paradise Lost_, IV. 267–8.

_Cowley’s Gallery._ The reference is to Cowley’s _The Chronicle_.

THE SICK CHAMBER

First republished in the volume of Selections edited by Mr. Ireland, who states, apparently upon the evidence of dates and the nature of the subject, that this was the last essay which Hazlitt wrote. This cannot be certainly known, and it seems more likely that the essay on ‘Personal Politics’ (_post_, pp. 456–61) was written later. The essay on ‘Footmen’ appeared in a later number of the _New Monthly_. Hazlitt died on Sept. 18, 1830.

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125. ‘_The body of this death._’ _Romans_ vii. 24.

‘_Cooped and cabined in._’ Cf. _Macbeth_, Act III. Sc. 4.

‘_Peep through the blanket_,’ _etc._ _Macbeth_, Act I. Sc. 5.

‘_A consummation_,’ _etc._ _Hamlet_, Act III. Sc. 1.

126. _Hoc erat in votis._ Horace, _Satires_, II. vi. 1.

‘_Our very gorge_,’ _etc._ Cf. _Hamlet_, Act V. Sc. 1.

‘_Hermit poor_,’ _etc._ These lines are quoted in Lamb’s _John
Woodvil_, Act V.

‘_Vows made in pain_’ _etc._ _Paradise Lost_, IV. 97.

‘_The Devil_,’ _etc._ This old proverb is quoted by Rabelais,
Liv. IV. Chap. 24.

127. ‘_Like life and death_,’ _etc._ Cf. Lamb, _John Woodvil_, Act II.

‘_Trouble deaf Heaven_,’ _etc._ Cf. Shakespeare’s Sonnets, No.
XXIX.

‘_Moralise our complaints_,’ _etc._ Cf. _As You Like It_, Act II.
Sc. 1.

‘_They have drugged_,’ _etc._ Cf. _Macbeth_, Act II. Sc. 2.

‘_Puzzling o’er the doubt._’ Cf. Cowper, _The Needless Alarm_,
77–78.

128. ‘_Like Samson_,’ _etc._ Cowper, _The Task_, V. 737.

‘_The worst of every evil_,’ _etc._ Cf. _Temistocle_, Act III.
Sc. 2.

129. ‘_A world_,’ _etc._ Cf. Wordsworth, _Personal Talk_, l. 34.

‘_A foregone conclusion._’ _Othello_, Act III. Sc. 3.

130. ‘_We see the children_,’ _etc._ Cf. Wordsworth, Ode, _Intimations
of Immortality_, 170–1.

_Paul Clifford._ Bulwer’s _Paul Clifford_ appeared in 1830.

‘_Lively_,’ _etc._ _Coriolanus_, Act IV. Sc. 5.

‘_The true pathos_,’ _etc._ Burns, _Epistle to Dr. Blacklock_.

FOOTMEN

Republished in _Sketches and Essays_.

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131. _Sewell and Cross’s._ Linen-drapers and silk-mercers, 44 and 45
Old Compton Street, Soho.

_The Bazaar._ Established in 1815.

‘_The Corinthian capitals_,’ _etc._ Cf. Burke’s _Reflections on
the Revolution in France_ (_Select Works_, ed. Payne, II. 164).

132. _As I look down Curzon Street._ The essay would seem to have been
written at 40 Half-Moon Street, where Hazlitt lodged from 1827
to 1829.

133. ‘_Brothers of the groves._’ Cf. vol. VIII. note to p. 467.

_Mr. N——._ _Sketches and Essays_ prints ‘Northcote.’

‘_High Life Below Stairs._’ By James Townley (1714–1788),
produced in 1759.

_Mr. C——._? Coleridge.

_Cassock._ _Sketches and Essays_ prints _hassock_.

_The fate of the footman_, _etc._ See Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s
_Epistle from Arthur Grey, the Footman, to Mrs. Murray_.

134. ‘_Vine-covered hills_,’ _etc._ From lines ‘Written in 1788’ by
William Roscoe and parodied in _The Anti-Jacobin_.

‘_As pigeons pick up peas._’ Cf. _Love’s Labour’s Lost_, V. 2.

135. ‘_No more—where ignorance_,’ _etc._ Gray, _On a Distant Prospect
of Eton College_.

_M. de Bausset._ Louis François Joseph, Baron de Bausset (b.
1770), author of _Mémoires anecdotiques sur l’intérieur du
palais_ (1827–8).

136. _Wear green spectacles._ These three words, which seem to have a
personal application, were omitted in _Sketches and Essays_.
Cf. _post_, p. 217.

ON THE WANT OF MONEY

Republished in _Literary Remains_.

137. ‘_The heaviest stone_,’ _etc._ Sir T. Browne, _Hydriotaphia_,
chap. IV.

138. ‘_That Mr. Moore_,’ _etc._ Moore’s Life of Sheridan appeared in
1825. This sentence was omitted in _Literary Remains_.

139. Note. ‘_Such gain_,’ _etc._ _Cymbeline_, Act III. Sc. 3.

140. ‘_Screw one’s courage_,’ _etc._ Cf. _Macbeth_, Act I. Sc. 7.

‘_As kind_,’ _etc._ Dryden, _The Hind and the Panther_, I. 271.

141. ‘_Of formal cut._’ _As You Like It_, Act II. Sc. 7.

_The fair Aurora._ _Gil Blas_, Livre IV.

_Monsieur de Very._ See _ante_, note to p. 104.

_Apicius._ Marcus Gabius Apicius, the notorious Roman epicure,
referred to by Pliny, X. 48, 68, § 133.

_Amelia’s hashed mutton._ _Amelia_, Book X. chap. V.

142. ‘_And ever_,’ _etc._ _L’Allegro_, 135–6.

‘_We called_,’ _etc._ Cf. _Colonel Jack_, chap. 1.

‘_The Colonel_,’ _etc._ _Ibid._

_The City Madam._ See Massinger’s, _The City Madam_, III. 3.

‘_Spanish Rogue._’ Hazlitt refers to Mateo Aleman’s _Guzman de
Alfarache_ (1599). Cf. vol. VIII. (_Lectures on the Comic
Writers_), p. 111.

142. _Mr. Lamb has referred_, _etc._ See Lamb’s _Specimens_, note to
Rowley’s _A New Wonder_ (_Works_, ed. E. V. Lucas, IV. 126).

Note. ‘_His daughter and his ducats._’ _The Merchant of Venice_,