Chapter XLI: Act I: Scene 1

‘_Bought golden opinions_,’ _etc._ _Macbeth_, Act I. Scene 7.

‘_On such a day_,’ _etc._ _Merchant of Venice_, Act I. Scene 3.

Note. _Mr. M—._ William Mudford. See _ante_, p. 111.

Note. ‘_Liked you lean_,’ _etc._ Cf. ‘Yond Cassius has a lean and
hungry look.’ _Julius Caesar_, Act I. Scene 2.

294. _Master Betty’s acting._ See _The Spirit of the Age_, vol. IV. p.
233.

‘_Some gay creature_,’ _etc._ _Comus_, 299.

‘_And in my mind_,’ _etc._ Home’s _Douglas_, Act IV. Scene 1.

_Enfield’s Speaker._ William Enfield’s _The Speaker, or
Miscellaneous Pieces selected from the best English Writers_,
originally published in 1774 and frequently reprinted.

_Mrs. Radcliffe’s Romance of the Forest._ See _English Comic
Writers_, vol. VIII. p. 125.

_Coleridge returned from Italy._ In August, 1806.

295. _Katterfelto._

‘And Katterfelto, with his hair on end
At his own wonders, wondering for his bread.’
Cowper, _The Task_, IV. 86–87.

296. ‘_It only is when_,’ _etc._ ‘’Twas only that, when he was off, he
was acting.’ Goldsmith, _Retaliation_, 102.

‘_Do me your offices._’ _Henry IV._, Part II., Act II. Scene 1.

_Mr. N—._ Northcote.

297. ‘_The first row of the rubric._’ See _ante_, note to p. 205 note.

298. ‘_All the world’s a stage_,’ _etc._ _As You Like It_, Act II.
Scene 7.

‘_Some followers of mine own._’ _Richard III._, Act III. Scene 7.

299. ‘_Holloa, you pampered jades_,’ _etc._ Marlowe’s _Tamburlaine the
Great_, Part II., Act IV. Scene 4.

‘_Cry him up_,’ _etc._ Cf. _ante_, p. 278.

_Rari nantes_, _etc._ _Aeneid_, I. 118.

300. ‘_Aiery of children_,’ _etc._ Cf. _ante_, note to p. 278.

301. _Dr. Johnson was asked_, _etc._ Boswell’s _Life of Johnson_ (ed.
G. B. Hill), IV. 116.

302. _Beechey._ Sir William Beechey (1753–1839), portrait painter to
Queen Charlotte.

Note. _Sharp._ Michael William Sharp (d. 1840) a pupil of Beechey.

ESSAY XXXI. ON THE KNOWLEDGE OF CHARACTER

303. _‘Speech,’ said a celebrated wit_, _etc._ Hazlitt probably refers
to Voltaire (_Le Chapon et la Poularde_), but the saying is
older.

_Lord Chesterfield advises us_, _etc._ See note to vol. I. p. 42.

Note. _Othello_, Act III. Scene 4.

304. _A rude half-effaced outline_, _etc._ The portrait of Donne by W.
Marshall, taken from a painting in 1591, when Donne was 18.

_The Duke of W—._ The Duke of Wellington.

305. _C—’s face._ Coleridge.

‘_Create a soul_,’ _etc._ _Comus_, 562.

_A little, demure_, _etc._ Sarah Walker, the heroine of _Liber
Amoris_.

306. _I know a person._ Hazlitt himself.

‘_Compliments extern._’ _Othello_, Act I. Scene 1.

307. ‘_If the French have a fault_,’ _etc._ _A Sentimental Journey_,
Character, Versailles.

309. _Service is no inheritance._ ‘Service is no heritage.’ _All’s Well
that Ends Well_, Act I. Scene 3.

‘_Subtle as the fox_,’ _etc._ _Cymbeline_, Act III. Scene 3.

310. ‘_Bitter bad judges._’ _The Beggar’s Opera_, Act I. Scene 1.

_I never knew but one clever man_, _etc._ Leigh Hunt?

310. ‘_The way of woman’s will_, _etc._’ Cf. _Samson Agonistes_,
1011–13.

311. _Oh! thou_, _etc._ Sarah Walker.

312. _The son, for instance_, _etc._ Hazlitt is clearly speaking of his
own experience.

‘_Rembrandts_,’ _etc._ ‘Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff.’
Goldsmith, _Retaliation_, 145.

‘_Infinite agitation_,’ _etc._ Bacon, _Advancement of Learning_,