Chapter XXVI: Act IV: Scene 1

66. ‘_Hussey, hussey_,’ _etc._ _Beggar’s Opera_, Act I.

_Miss Hannah More’s laboured invectives._ Such as _Thoughts on
the Importance of the Manners of the Great to General Society_
(1788) and _An Estimate of the Religion of the Fashionable
World_ (1790). See _ante_, p. 154, for another expression of
Hazlitt’s belief in the disciplinary value of _The Beggar’s
Opera_.

Note. For further reference to Baron Grimm’s _Correspondance_
(1812–14) see _ante_, p. 131, the essay ‘On the Literary
Character.’ Claude Pierre Patu (1729–1757) published _Choix de
pièces traduites de l’anglais_ (de Robert Dodsley et John Gay)
in 1756. The collected works of Jean Joseph Vadé (1720–1757)
were published in 1775.

ON PATRIOTISM—A FRAGMENT

This fragment is taken from one of the ‘Illustrations of Vetus’ which appeared originally in _The Morning Chronicle_ and were republished in _Political Essays_.

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67. ‘_The love of mankind_‘, _etc._ Rousseau’s _Emile_, Liv. IV. p.
279 (edit. Garnier): a favourite quotation of Hazlitt’s.

ON BEAUTY

No. 29 of the Round Table series, and signed in _The Examiner_—‘An Amateur.’

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68. _Three Papers_, _etc._ Reynolds’s papers in the _Idler_ are Nos.
76, 79, and 82. It is to the last, _On the true idea of
Beauty_, that Hazlitt particularly refers.

69. _Spenser’s description of Belphœbe._ _The Faerie Queene_, Book
II. Canto iii. st. 21 _et seq._

70. ‘_Her full dark eyes_,’ _etc._ The reference seems to be to
_Leiden des jungen Werthers_ (December 6).

71. _Pope’s translation._ Homer’s _Odyssey_, V. 56–67.

Note. _A classical friend._ Leigh Hunt.

Note. ‘_That was Arion crown’d_,’ _etc._ _The Faerie Queene_,