Chapter XXXIX: Canto VI: Stanza 28

281. _C—._ Coleridge.

283. _Otium cum dignitate._ Cicero, _Pro Publio Sextio_, XLV.

‘_I am nothing_,’ _etc._ _Othello_, Act II. Scene 1.

284. _In the —._ _The Quarterly Review._

‘_This is the unkindest_,’ _etc._ ‘This was the most unkindest cut
of all!’ _Julius Cæsar_, Act III. Scene 2.

_Prince Maurice’s Parrot_, _etc._ These two papers were published
in _Political Essays_, vol. III. pp. 101 and 305.

285. _A motto from Butler._

‘Yet he that is but able to express
No sense at all in several languages,
Will pass for learneder than he that’s known, etc.
Butler, _Satire upon the Abuse of Human Learning_, ll. 65–7.

_L—._ Lamb.

_L. H._ Leigh Hunt.

_A person of this over-weening turn._ Probably Leigh Hunt, his
friend S— being Shelley.

285. _Count Stendhal._ Marie-Henri Beyle (1783–1842).

‘_Germane to the matter_.’ _Hamlet_, Act V. Scene 2.

_My answers to Vetus._ Contributed to _The Morning Chronicle_ in
1813 and republished in _Political Essays_. See vol. III.

286. _Digito monstrari._ Horace, _Odes_, IV. iii. 22.

_Mr. Powell’s court._ In St. Martin’s Street. Cf. _ante_, p. 88.

_Mr. Knight’s performance of Filch._ For reference to Edward
Knight (‘Little Knight’) and for Hazlitt’s remark on Simmons’s
Filch, see the volume containing dramatic criticisms. The
article in _The Examiner_ appeared on Nov. 6, 1815.

_One Cavanagh._ See _ante_, pp. 86–89.

_A character of him._ See _Political Essays_, vol. III. p, 325.

287. ‘_Lively, audible_,’ _etc._ ‘It’s spritely, waking, audible, and
full of vent.’ _Coriolanus_, Act IV. Scene 5.

_The conversation between Angelica and Foresight._ _Love for
Love_, Act II. Scene 3.

‘_So shalt thou find me_,’ _etc._ _Sardanapalus_, Act IV. Scene 1.

288. _Scholars should be sworn at Highgate._ See Brand’s _Popular
Antiquities_, II. 195. Part of the oath taken by the person
sworn was ‘never to kiss the maid when he could kiss the
mistress.’

‘_Not pierceable_,’ _etc._ _The Faerie Queene_, Book I. Canto I.
Stanza 7.

‘_To succeed at the gaming-table_,’ _etc._ The sentiment is
Peachum’s. See _The Beggar’s Opera_, Act I. Scene 1.

‘_To have a good face_,’ _etc._ ‘To be a well-favoured man is the
gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.’ _Much
Ado About Nothing_, Act III. Scene 3.

ESSAY XXX. ON PATRONAGE AND PUFFING

289. ‘_A gentle husher_,’ _etc._ _The Faerie Queene_, Book I. Canto iv.
Stanza 13.

‘_Puff direct._’ Sheridan, _The Critic_, Act I. Scene 2.

290. _Groundling._ ‘To split the ears of the groundlings.’ _Hamlet_,