Chapter XXXVIII: Act II: Scene 2

266. ‘_Compunctious visitings_,’ _etc._ _Macbeth_, Act I. Scene 5.

‘_Motley’s his proper wear._’ ‘Motley’s the only wear.’ _As You
Like It_, Act II. Scene 7.

‘_Diseases are turned_,’ _etc._ _Henry IV._, Part II. Act I. Scene
2.

Note. ‘_Sacred pity_,’ _etc._ _As You Like It_, Act II. Scene 7.

267. ‘_Disembowel himself_,’ _etc._ Burke, _Reflections on the
Revolution in France_ (_Select Works_, ed. Payne, II. 101).

268. _Hitherto_, _etc._ _Job_, xxxviii. 11.

‘_In spite of_,’ _etc._ ‘And, spite of pride, in erring reason’s
spite.’ Pope, _Essay on Man_, I. 293.

270. _The Barrys_, _etc._ James Barry (1741–1806) quarrelled with his
brother Academicians and was expelled in 1799; Benjamin Robert
Haydon (1786–1846), to whom Hazlitt probably refers as ‘H—,’
also quarrelled with the Royal Academy, and was never made a
member; Charles Cotton (1728–1798), coach-painter to George
III., was by him nominated one of the foundation members of the
Academy.

270. ‘_Wipes out_,’ _etc._ _Hamlet_, Act I. Scene 5.

‘_The Raphael grace_,’ _etc._ Cf. _Tristram Shandy_, III. 12.

‘_Must live within_,’ _etc._ _Hamlet_, Act I. Scene 5.

‘_Dandled_,’ _etc._ ‘I was not, like his Grace of Bedford,
swaddled, and rocked, and dandled into a legislator.’ Burke, _A
Letter to a Noble Lord_ (_Works_, Bohn, V. 124).

_Sir Thomas Lawrence_, _etc._ Lawrence had been commissioned to
paint the members of the Congress at Aix-la-Chapelle, and had
afterwards visited Rome. He returned to England in 1820.

_Mr. Dawe._ George Dawe (1781–1829) who went to Russia in 1819
and painted for the Emperor a great number of portraits.
Lamb contributed an account of him to _The Englishman’s
Magazine_ (Sept. 1831) entitled _Recollections of A Late
Royal Academician_.

_Mr. Canning somewhere_, _etc._ See his Speeches on the occasion
of his reelection at Liverpool, March, 1820.

271. ‘_All honourable men._’ _Julius Caesar_, Act III. Scene 2.

ESSAY XXVIII. WHETHER ACTORS OUGHT TO SIT IN THE BOXES

‘_By his so potent art._’ _The Tempest_, Act V. Scene 1.

272. ‘_Pile millions_,’ _etc._

‘Be buried quick with her, and so will I:
And, if thou prate of mountains, let them throw
Millions of acres on us,’ etc.
_Hamlet_, Act V. Scene 1.

273. _Mr. Matthews, in his ‘At Home.’_ Probably Hazlitt refers to ‘The
Trip to Paris,’ by James Smith and John Poole, Mathews’s second
_At Home_, produced in 1819.

‘_O’er the stage_,’ _etc._

‘Dread o’er the scene, the ghost of Hamlet stalks;
Othello rages; poor Monimia mourns;
And Belvidera pours her soul in love.’
Thomson, _The Seasons_, Winter, 646–8.

‘_No; let him pass_,’ _etc._

‘Vex not his ghost: O, let him pass! he hates him
That would upon the rack of this tough world
Stretch him out longer.’
_King Lear_, Act V. Scene 3.

_Abel Drugger._ In Ben Jonson’s _The Alchemist_, one of Garrick’s
great parts.

274. ‘_Sir, do you think_,’ _etc._ ‘Dost thou think Alexander looked o’
this fashion i’ the earth?’ _Hamlet_, Act V. Scene 1.

‘_With a bare bodkin._’ _Ib._, Act III. Scene 1.

‘_Steal most guilty-like away._’ _Othello_, Act III. Scene 3.

_Omne ignotum_, _etc._ Tacitus, _Agricola_, XXX.

‘_A voice potential._’ _Othello_, Act I. Scene 2.

‘_Shuffled off_,’ _etc._ _Hamlet_, Act III. Scene 1.

_Aut Caesar_, _etc._ The motto of Caesar Borgia.

‘_That players may jet through._’ Adapted from _Cymbeline_, Act
III. Scene 3.

_The top-tragedian._ John Philip Kemble.

274. _Him with the falcon eye._ Coriolanus, perhaps, one of Kemble’s
most famous parts.

275. ‘_The graves yawn_,’ _etc._ A composite quotation from _Much Ado
About Nothing_ (Act V. Scene 3) and _Macbeth_ (Act III. Scene
4).

_The Copper Captain_, _etc._ In Fletcher’s _Rule a Wife and have a
Wife_; Bobadil, in Ben Jonson’s _Every Man in His Humour_;
Ranger, in Hoadly’s _The Suspicious Husband_; Young Rapid, in
Morton’s _A Cure for the Heart-Ache_; Lord Foppington, in
Vanbrugh’s _The Relapse_.

‘_My brain would have been_,’ _etc._ ‘I declare, quoth my uncle
Toby, mine are more like a smoke-jack!’ _Tristram Shandy_, vol.
III. chap. 18.

‘_Then sweet_,’ _etc._ ‘Then sweet, now sad to mention.’ _Paradise
Lost_, II. 820.

_Mrs. Garrick._ Mrs. Garrick died in 1822 at the age of 98.

276. ‘_A little more than kin_,’ _etc._ _Hamlet_, Act I. Scene 2.

277. ‘_Instinct with fire._’ _Paradise Lost_, II. 937.

278. _Sterne’s stop-watch._ _Tristram Shandy_, vol. III. chap. 12.

‘_Cried out upon_,’ _etc._ Cf. ‘An eyrie of children, little
eyases, that cry out on the top of question.’ _Hamlet_, Act II.
Scene 2.

Note. See _The Spectator_, No. 235. Mr. Smirke, afterwards Sir
Robert Smirke (1781–1867) rebuilt Covent Garden Theatre (1809),
and Benjamin Dean Wyatt (1775–1850?) rebuilt Drury Lane Theatre
(1811). Hazlitt implies that at both theatres the galleries
commanded an imperfect view of the stage. At Covent Garden this
was one of the grievances which led to the O. P. riots of 1809.

279. _Grimaldi._ Joseph Grimaldi (1779–1837).

ESSAY XXIX. ON THE DISADVANTAGES OF INTELLECTUAL SUPERIORITY

280. _Petrarch complains_, _etc._ In the sonnet lamenting the death of
Laura, beginning ‘Gli occhi di ch’ io parlai si caldamente.’

‘_To be honest_,’ _etc._ _Hamlet_, Act II. Scene 2.

‘_How now_,’ _etc._ _Henry VI._ Part II., Act IV. Scene 2.

‘_Stand all astonied_,’ _etc._ _The Faerie Queene_, Book vii.