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Chapter XXXV: Part III: chap. vi

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Note. For Burgh’s book see vol. IV. (_Reply to Malthus_), p. 85
_et seq._ and notes.

ADDENDA TO THE NOTES IN VOLS. I.–XI.

VOL. I.

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3. _The miser ‘robs himself,’_ _etc._ Cf. _Joseph Andrews_, Book
IV. chap. vii.

23. ‘_Because on earth_,’ _etc._ See vol. X., note to p. 63.

52. ‘_A mistress_,’ _etc._ Goldsmith, _The Traveller_, 152.

57. ‘_Pure_,’ _etc._ Dryden, _Persius_, Sat. II. l. 133.

68. ‘_Two happy things_,’ _etc._ _The Tatler_ (No. 40) quotes the
epigram thus:

‘In marriage are two happy things allowed,
A wife in wedding-sheets, and in a shroud.
How can a marriage state then be accursed,
Since the last day’s as happy as the first?’

85. ‘_Painting was jealous_,’ _etc._ Vasari records a similar
saying (_Lives_, ed. Blashfield and Hopkins, 1897, vol. IV. p.
218).

105. ‘_In that first garden_,’ _etc._ Cf. ‘In that first garden
of our simpleness.’ Daniel, _Hymen’s Triumph_, I. 1.

112. ‘_And visions_,’ _etc._ This couplet, a favourite quotation
of Hazlitt’s, occurs in a letter from Gray to Horace Walpole
(_Letters_, ed. Tovey, I. 7–8). The lines are apparently a
translation (by Gray) of Virgil, _Æneid_, VI. 282–84.

135. ‘_Heaves no sigh_,’ _etc._ See vol. V., note to p. 30.

139. _The new Patent Blacking._ Cf. Moore’s _Parody of a
Celebrated Letter_, 94–6.

391. ‘_The word_,’ _etc._ Cf. _2 Henry IV._, III. 2.

292. ‘_Go, go_,’ _etc._ Cf. Wycherley, _The Plain Dealer_, v. I.

427. _Turnspit of the King’s kitchen._ See vol. XII. (_Fugitive
Writings_), p. 291 and note.

VOL. II.

310. ‘_Both living and loving._’ Lamb’s version of Thekla’s Song
in _The Piccolomini_. See Coleridge’s _Poetical Works_, ed. J.
D. Campbell, p. 648.

311. ‘_Winged wound._’ Dryden, _The Hind and the Panther_, I. 6.

347. ‘_Who had been beguiled_,’ _etc._ Leigh Hunt, _The Story of
Rimini_, Canto III.

363. ‘_Throws a cruel sunshine on a fool._’ Armstrong, _The Art
of Preserving Health_, Book IV.

396. _The man who bought Punch._ See vol. XII. p. 353.

VOL. III.

38. _The Room over the way._ See Cobbett’s _Weekly Political
Register_, Sept. 1817 (_Selections, etc._, v. 259).

41. _St. Peter is well at Rome._ _Don Quixote_, Part II. Book
III. chap, xli., and elsewhere.

45. ‘_Lest the courtiers_,’ _etc._ _The Beggar’s Opera_, II. 2.

60. ‘_One note day and night._’ Burke, _Regicide Peace_ (_Select
Works_, ed. Payne, p. 51).

63. ‘_Which fear_,’ _etc._ Cowper, _The Task_, II. 325.

166. ‘_In Philharmonia’s undivided dale._’ Cf. ‘O’er peaceful
Freedom’s undivided dale.’ Coleridge, _Monody on the Death of
Chatterton_, 140.

171. ‘_Unslacked of motion._’ See vol. IV. p. 42 and note.

174. ‘_Of whatsoever race_,’ _etc._ Cf. Dryden, _Absalom and
Achitophel_, I. 100–103.

239. ‘_Meek mouths ruminant._’ Cf. ‘With ruminant meek mouths.’
Leigh Hunt, _The Story of Rimini_, Canto II.

243. The Essay on ‘The Effects of War and Taxes,’ appeared also
in The _New Scots Magazine_ for Oct. 1818.

259. ‘_Soul-killing lies_,’ _etc._ Lamb, _John Woodvil_, Act II.

268. ‘_Certain so wroth_,’ _etc._ Chaucer, _Canterbury Tales_,
The Prologue, 451–2.

273. ‘_People of the nicest imaginations_,’ _etc._ Cf. Swift,
_Thoughts on Various Subjects_.

284. ‘_Resemble the flies of a summer._’ Cf. ‘Men would become
little better than the flies of a summer.’ Burke, _Reflections
on the Revolution in France_ (_Select Works_, ed. Payne, II.
112).

328. ‘_A new creation_,’ _etc._ Goldsmith, _The Traveller_, 296.

VOL. IV.

17. ‘_Sacro_,’ _etc._ Quoted in the notes to Junius. See notes to

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