Chapter XXXII: Act I: 2

_we have that within_, Act I. 2.

234. _that has no relish of salvation_ and _He kneels and prays_ [now
might I do it pat, now he is praying], Act III. 3.

_How all occasions_, Act IV. 4 [fust in us].

235. _Whole Duty of Man_, 1659, a once-popular ethical treatise of
unknown authorship.

_Academy of Compliments, or the whole Art of Courtship, being the
rarest and most exact way of wooing a Maid or Widow, by the way
of Dialogue or complimental Expressions._ London, 12mo.
Academies of Compliments were also published in 1655 and 1669.

236. _his father’s spirit_, Act I. 2.

_I loved Ophelia_ and _Sweets to the sweet_, Act V. 1.

_Oh rose of May_, Act IV. 5.

_There is a willow_, Act IV. 7 [grows aslant].

237. _a wave o’ th’ sea._ _The Winter’s Tale_, Act IV. 4.

THE TEMPEST

238. _Either for tragedy._ _Hamlet_, Act II. 2. Hazlitt alters the
words of Polonius to apply them to Shakespeare.

_a deed without a name._ _Macbeth_, Act IV. 1.

_does his spiriting gently_, Act I. 2.

_to airy nothing._ _A Midsummer Night’s Dream_, Act V. 1.

_semblably._ _The Second Part of King Henry VI._, Act V. 1.

_worthy of that name._ Cf. Act III. 1.

239. _like the dyer’s hand._ _Sonnet_ CXI.

‘_the liberty of wit_’ ... _‘the law’ of the understanding_. Cf.
_Hamlet_, Act II. 2 [the law of writ and the liberty].

_of the earth, earthy._ _St. John_, iii. 31.

_always speaks in blank verse_, Schlegel, p. 395.

_As wicked dew_, Act I. 2.

240. _I’ll shew thee_, Act II. 2.

_Be not afraid_, Act III. 2.

241. _I drink the air_, Act V. 1.

_I’ll put a girdle_, _A Midsummer Night’s Dream_, Act II. 2.

_Your charm_, Act V. 1.

_Come unto these yellow sands_, Act I. 2.

242. _The cloud-capp’d towers_, Act IV. 1.

_Ye elves of hills_, Act V. 1.

243. _Shakespear has anticipated._ The passage quoted is based on
Florio’s translation of Montaigne. See Chapter XXX. Book 1. _Of
the Caniballes_.

_Had I the plantation_, Act II. 1.

THE MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM

See _The Round Table_, pp. 61–64.

244. _This crew of patches_, Act III. 2.

_He will roar_, Act I. 2. The two following quotations in the
text are in the same scene.

_I believe we must leave_, Act III. 1.

245. _Write me a prologue_, Act III. 1.

_with amiable cheeks_ and _Monsieur Cobweb_, Act IV. 1.

_Lord, what fools_, Act III. 2.

_the human mortals_, Act II. 1.

_gorgons and hydras._ _Paradise Lost_, Book II. l. 628.

_regarded him rather as a metaphysician._ Cf. ‘No man was ever
yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound
philosopher.’ Coleridge’s _Biographia Literaria_, Chap. XV.

246. _Be kind_, Act III. 1.

_Go, one of you_, Act IV. 1.

247. _the most fearful wild-fowl_, Act III. 1.

247. _Liston_ acted in _A Midsummer Night’s Dream_ at Covent Garden,
January 17, 1816. See Genest’s _Some Account of the English
Stage_, VIII. 545–549. See also Hazlitt’s _A View of the
English Stage_, where a few of the same sentences used here
also occur.

ROMEO AND JULIET

248. _whatever is most intoxicating_, Schlegel, p. 400.

_fancies_ [cowslips] _wan_. _Lycidas_, l. 147.

249. _We have heard it objected._ By Curran. See _post_, p. 393.

_too unripe and crude._ Cf. _Lycidas_, l. 3, ‘harsh and crude.’

_the_ STRANGER. _Menschenhass und Reue_, by A.F.F. von Kotzebue
(1761–1819), adapted for the English stage under the title of
_The Stranger_. See note to p. 155.

_gather grapes._ _St. Matthew_, vii. 16.

_My bounty_, Act II. 2.

250. _they fade by degrees_, Wordsworth’s Ode, _Intimations of
Immortality from Recollections of early Childhood_, V. [fade
into the light].

_that lies about us._ _Ibid._

251. _the purple light of love_, Gray’s _Progress of Poesy_, l. 41.

_another morn risen on mid-day_ [mid-noon], _Paradise Lost_, V.
310–311.

_in utter nakedness_, Wordsworth’s _Ode_ (see above), V.

_I’ve seen the day_, Act I. 5.

_At my poor house_, Act I. 2.

_But he_, Act I. 1.

252. _the white wonder_, Act III. 3.

_What lady’s that_, Act I. 5.

_But stronger Shakespear felt for man alone_, Collins’s _Epistle
to Sir Thomas Hanmer_.

_Thou know’st the mask_, Act II. 2.

253. _calls_ [think] _true love spoken_ [acted] and _Gallop apace_,