Chapter XXXI: Act I: Sc. 2 and Act IV. Sc. 4

‘_The whole_,’ _etc._ Cf. _S. Matthew_ ix. 12.

‘_As when_,’ _etc._ Thomson, _The Castle of Indolence_, St. 64.

177. ‘_Yea, into our heart of hearts._’ Cf. _Hamlet_, Act III. Sc. 2.

‘_The volumes_,’ _etc._ Roscommon, _Horace’s Art of Poetry_.

‘_That dallies_,’ _etc._ Cf. _Twelfth Night_, Act II. Sc. 4.

178. ‘_Wit at the helm_,’ _etc._ Cf. ‘Youth on the prow, and Pleasure
at the helm.’ Gray, _The Bard_, 74.

179. _A butt, according to the Spectator_, _etc._ See _The Spectator_,
No. 47.

181. ‘_Hew you_,’ _etc._ Cf. _Julius Cæsar_, Act II. Sc. 1.

_Tempora_, _etc._ Cf. _Æneid_, IV. 293–4.

‘_Not to admire_,’ _etc._ Pope, _Imitations of Horace_, Epistles
I. vi. 1–2.

_The Westminster School of Reform._ Hazlitt refers to the
writers, including Bentham and James Mill, associated with _The
Westminster Review_, founded in 1824.

182. ‘_Milk of human kindness._’ _Macbeth_, Act I. Sc. 5.

ON MEANS AND ENDS

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184. ‘_We work by wit_,’ _etc._ _Othello_, Act II. Sc. 3.

185. ‘_Leaps at once_,’ _etc._ Cowper, _The Task_, V. 686.

‘_From Indus_,’ _etc._ Pope, _Eloisa to Abelard_, 58.

187. _Hinc illæ lachrymæ._ Horace, _Epistles_, I. xix. 41.

188. ‘_Constrained by mastery._’ Chaucer, _Canterbury Tales_, The
Franklin’s Tale, 36; Wordsworth quotes the line in _The
Excursion_, VI. 162–5.

189. ‘_Makes a sunshine_,’ _etc._ _The Faerie Queene_, I. iii. 4.

190. _David’s and Girodet’s pictures._ Jacques Louis David (1748–1825)
and Anne Louis Girodet (1767–1824).

‘_Potations, pottle-deep._’ _Othello_, Act II. Sc. 3.

192. ‘_In a phantasma_,’ _etc._ _Julius Cæsar_, Act II. Sc. 1.

‘_Courage_,’ _etc._ _Paradise Lost_, I. 108.

193. ‘_His thoughts_,’ _etc._ Cf. _Ibid._, IX. 467.

Note. _Strong passion_, _etc._ Cf. _The Rambler_, No. 1.

Note. ‘_The lunatic_,’ _etc._ _A Midsummer Night’s Dream_, Act V.
Sc. 1.

194. ‘_Set but a Scotsman_,’ _etc._ Cf. Burns, _The Author’s Earnest
Cry and Prayer_, Postscript, St. 4.

‘_And it alone_,’ _etc._ Cf. _Twelfth Night_, Act I. Sc. 1.

‘_We read his works._’ Lamb’s Essay ‘On the Genius and Character
of Hogarth’ (_Works_, ed. E. V. Lucas, I. 71).

195. ‘_The darlings of his precious eye._’ Cf. ‘Make it a darling like
your precious eye.’ _Othello_, Act III. Sc. 4.

196. ‘_The jovial thigh_,’ _etc._ Cf. _Cymbeline_, Act IV. Sc. 2.

197. ‘_They are careful_,’ _etc._ Cf. _S. Luke_ X. 41–42.

198. ‘_And with their darkness_,’ _etc._ Cf. _Paradise Lost_, I. 391.

‘_They also serve_,’ _etc._ Adapted from Milton’s Sonnet, No.
XX., ‘When I consider how my light is spent,’ etc.

ON PERSONAL IDENTITY

Published with some omissions in _Winterslow_.

‘_Ha! here be_,’ _etc._ _King Lear_, Act III. Sc. 4.

‘_If I were not Alexander_,’ _etc._ The saying is given by
Plutarch.

Note. _Zoffani._ Johann Zoffany, or Zaufelly (1733–1810).

Note. _Reynolds’s Speculation._ A comedy by Frederick Reynolds,
produced in 1795. George III. was much amused by it. See _Life
of Reynolds_, II. 208–210.

199. ‘_Wishing to be_,’ _etc._ Cf. Shakespeare, Sonnet XXIX.

‘_The rub_,’ _etc._ Cf. _Hamlet_, Act III. Sc. 1.

‘_Put off_,’ _etc._ _Ibid._

200. ‘_What more felicity_,’ _etc._ Spenser, _Muiopotmos_, St. 27.

201. ‘_That something_,’ _etc._ Cf. Pope, _An Essay on Man_, IV. 3–4.

‘_Very choice Italian._’ _Hamlet_, Act III. Sc. 2.

‘_Vows_,’ _etc._ Cf. _Paradise Lost_, IV. 97.

‘_The native hue_,’ _etc._ Cf. _Hamlet_, Act III. Sc. 1.

202. ‘_Shut up_,’ _etc._ _Macbeth_, Act II. Sc. 1.

‘_I’d sooner_,’ _etc._ Cf. _Julius Cæsar_, Act IV. Sc. 3.

_Sir Thomas Lethbridge._ A sturdy Tory, member for Somersetshire.
He is possibly the L—— referred to in vol. VI. (_Table-Talk_),
p. 94. Though a staunch Protectionist, he voted for Reform and
Catholic Emancipation.

203. ‘_Ethereal braid_,’ _etc._ See vol. IV. (_The Spirit of the
Age_), note to p. 216.

_Had I been a lord I should have married_, _etc._ This sentence
and the next were omitted in _Winterslow_.

204. ‘_Give me_,’ _etc._ Cf. _3 Henry VI._, Act I. Sc. 4.

‘_Monarchise_,’ _etc._ _Richard II._, Act III. Sc. 2.

‘_Tenth transmitters_,’ _etc._ Richard Savage, _The Bastard_.

‘_In the catalogue_,’ _etc._ Cf. _Macbeth_, Act III. Sc. 1.

‘_Swinish multitude._’ Burke, _Reflections on the Revolution in
France_ (_Select Works_, ed. Payne, II. 93).

205. ‘_The fair_,’ _etc._ Cf. _As You Like It_, Act III. Sc. 2.

_The person who bought Punch._ Cf. _post_, p. 353.

206. _Why will Mr. Cobbett_, _etc._ Cobbett had recently (1826)
unsuccessfully contested Preston.

_The bird described by Chaucer._ See Chaucer, _The Canterbury
Tales_, The Manciple’s Tale, 59 _et seq._, and The Squiere’s
Tale, 603 _et seq._

_You say there is a common language_, _etc._ These words, down to
‘And he will laugh in your face,’ were omitted in _Winterslow_.

207. ‘_A certain tender bloom_,’ _etc._ Cf. ‘A certain tender gloom
o’erspread his face.’ Thomson, _The Castle of Indolence_, I.
St. 57.

208. ‘_Stuff o’ the conscience._’ _Othello_, Act I. Sc. 2.

‘_Laggard age._’ Collins, Ode, _The Passions_, 112.

209. _Like Benvenuto Cellini_, _etc._ See _Life of Benvenuto Cellini_,