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197. _Constrained by mastery._ Cf. Wordsworth, _The Excursion_, VI.

‘That Love will not submit to be controlled
By mastery.’

198. _George Psalmanazar._ The literary impostor (1679–1763). He was a
native of France and pretended to be a Formosan. To keep up the
imposition he invented an alphabet and a Formosan grammar.

_Enquiry concerning Political Justice._ Godwin’s book (1793).

_Diversions of Purley._ John Horne Tooke’s book was published in
1786–1805. See vol. IV. _The Spirit of the Age_, p. 231.

_Interminable babble._ ‘Intarissable babil’ in the _Magazine_.

_Tongue with a garnish of brains._ Goldsmith, _Retaliation_, 6.

_Wimbledon._ Where Horne Tooke lived.

_With a nostrum in his mouth._ See Alexander Stephens’s _Memoirs of
John Horne Tooke, Esq._, vol. II. p. 445, ‘While yet in perfect
possession of his senses, and uncertain of his impending fate,
although conscious it could not be long protracted, the patient
eagerly inquired’ [of Sir Francis Burdett] ‘concerning the effect
produced on the House of Commons by the motion relative to the
_punishment_ of soldiers?...

‘As he had once more been relieved by cordials, notwithstanding he was
told it was now in vain, the member for Westminster prepared to
administer one with his own hand. Having knelt for this purpose, the
dying man opened his eyes for the last time, and seeing who it was
that presented the potion, he swallowed it with avidity.’

_The late Professor Porson._ Richard Porson (1759–1808), Greek scholar
and critic.

198. _The Member for Old Sarum._ See _ante_, note to p. 6.

_The man of perhaps the greatest ability now living._ Coleridge. Cf.
_The Spirit of the Age_.

199. _Duns Scotus to Jacob Behmen._ John Duns, the ‘subtle doctor’;
Jacob Bœhmen (1575–1624), German mystic.

_Discoursed in eloquent music._ _Hamlet_, III. 2.

_Ten thousand great ideas._ Thomson’s _Castle of Indolence_, I. lix.

_Non ex quovis ligno fit Mercurius._ Erasmus, _Adagiorum Chiliades_,
‘Munus aptum.’

_Though he had all knowledge._ _1 Corinthians_, xiii. 1, 2.

200. _You cannot gather grapes of thorns._ _S. Matthew_, vii. 16.

_Respice finem._ See vol. VI. _Table Talk_, note to p. 27.

_To get the start of the majestic world._ _Julius Cæsar_, I. 2.

201. _Mens divinior._ Horace, _Sat._ I. IV. 43.

202. _Vox faucibus hæsit._ Vergil, _Æneid_, II. 774.

_With a confident brow._ _2 King Henry IV._, II. 1.

_Too deep for his hearers._ Goldsmith’s _Retaliation_, 35.

_A soul as fair._ Thomson, _Castle of Indolence_, II. 33.

_Fell flat, and shamed their worshippers._ _Paradise Lost_, I. 461.

_How he cuts up in the caul._ Burke, _A Letter to a Noble Lord_
(_Works_, Bohn, V. 145).

203. _Sterne’s description of Mr. Hammond Shandy._ _Tristram Shandy_,
III. 10.

_On that point._ The _Magazine_ adds ‘Petulant set his mark.’
Congreve, _The Way of the World_, V. 3.

_For women, born to be controll’d._ Waller: _Of Love_, 13–16:

‘For women (born to be control’d)
Stoop to the forward and the bold:
Affect the haughty and the proud,
The gay, the frolic, and the loud.’

_Scrub in the farce._ In Farquhar’s _Beaux’ Stratagem_.

204. _Doubtless, the pleasure is as great._ Butler’s _Hudibras_, Part
II. Canto III. 1.

_The art of being well deceived._ See vol. I. _The Round Table_, p.
84.

_A writer whom I know very well._ Himself.

_Sup at the Shakespeare._ The noted theatrical tavern in the Piazza,
Covent Garden. See Timbs’ _History of Clubs and Club-Life in
London_, ed. 1886, p. 427.

205. _His next answer to Vetus._ See vol. III. _Political Essays_, p.
57 and note.

_The graceful ornaments, etc._ Cf. Burke, _Reflections on the
Revolution in France_ (_Select Works_, ed. Payne, II. 164).

_‘Don’t you remember,’ says Gray._ Letter to Richard West, May 27,
1742.

_A man of genius a coxcomb in dress._ Cf. vol. I. _The Round Table_,
p. 95.

_Prince Prettyman._ In the Duke of Buckingham’s _Rehearsal_ (1671).

206. _Nihil humani._ Terence, _Heautontimorumenos_, I. 1.

_The flattery that soothes the dull cold ear of death._ Gray’s
_Elegy_, 11.

207. _Lady Mary Wortley Montague._ (c. 1690–1762), the correspondent
of Pope and Addison.

_A. P. E._ Alexander Pope, Esquire.

_Ere we have shuffled off that mortal coil._ _Hamlet_, III. 1.

_The real story of David Ritchie._ David Ritchie, a dwarf, of Manor,
Peeblesshire, was the original of Elshender, the Black Dwarf, in
Scott’s novel so called. See _The Life and Anecdotes of the Black
Dwarf, or David Ritchie, commonly called Bowed Davie_, by William
Chambers, Edinburgh, 1820.

207. Note. _Sir John Suckling_, 1609–42. The two lines quoted are part
of _The Session of the Poets_ (20).

_So Mr. Gifford dedicated these verses to Mr. Hoppner._ Hoppner became
R.A. in 1795, and Gifford dedicated the Second Edition of his
_Baviad and Mæviad_ to him in 1797.

208. _Quite chop-fallen._ _Hamlet_, V. 1.

_Such a poor_ [bare] _forked animal._ _King Lear_, III. 4.

_They did it for his good._ See No. XXXVII. of the Quarterly Review,
April 1818, published in September.

209. _These are the doctrines, etc._

‘These are the volumes that enrich the shops,
These pass with admiration through the world,
And bring their author an immortal name.’
Roscommon, _Horace’s Art of Poetry_, 385–7.

_Embalms and spices._ _Timon of Athens_, IV. 3.

_The spital and the lazar-house._ ‘The spital-house and ulcerous sores
would cast the gorge at.’ _Timon of Athens_, IV. 3.

ESSAY XIX. ON THE LOOK OF A GENTLEMAN

From _The London Magazine_, vol. III. Jan. 1821, ‘Table Talk VI.,’ signed T.

_Causa latet, res ipsa [vis est] notissima._ Ovid. _Met._ IV. 287.

210. _Familiarity of regard._ ‘Quenching my familiar smile with an
austere regard of control.’ _Twelfth Night_, II. 5.

_Nice conduct._

‘Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain,
And the nice conduct of a clouded cane.’
Pope, _The Rape of the Lock_, IV. 122.

‘_The Clandestine Marriage._’ By Colman the Elder and Garrick (1766).
This comedy is about to be revived at the Haymarket Theatre (March
17, 1903).

_Wound up for the day._ _The Clandestine Marriage_, Act II. Scene 1.

_Sir Joseph Banks._ The celebrated naturalist (1743–1820). He
accompanied Cook in his first circumnavigation of the world.

211. _Sir Charles B—nb—ry._ See vol. VI. _Mr. Northcote’s
Conversations_, note to p. 454.

_Lady Sarah L—nn—x._ _Ibid._

_How tall his person is._ _Hudibras_, Part I. Canto iii., 83–4.

_The old one-eyed Duke of Queensberry._ William Douglas, 3rd Earl of
March and 4th Duke of Queensberry (1724–1810).

_The late Admiral Byron._ The Hon. John Byron, the poet’s grandfather
(1723–1768).

_N——._ Northcote.

_Subdued to the very quality._ _Othello_, I. 3.

212. _Dress makes the man._ ‘Worth makes the man,’ etc. Pope’s _Essay
on Man_, Ep. IV. 203.

_Wycherley._ William Wycherley (1640–1715). He was a man of fashion as
well as a writer of comedies.

_Lord Hinchinbroke._ Sir Edward Mont- (or Mount-) agu, first Viscount
Hinchinbroke and first Earl of Sandwich (1625–1672).

Note. _The Duchess of Cleveland._ ‘Her graceless grace’ of the Court
of Charles II.

213. _Alcibiades threw away a flute._ See Plutarch’s _Life of
Alcibiades_.

213. _Ferdinand in the Tempest._ Act III. 1.

214. _Sergeant Atkinson._ In Fielding’s _Amelia_, Book V. chap. 2.

_Lord C——._ Castlereagh.

_Hatching vain empires._ _Paradise Lost_, II. 378.

_Voluminous and vast._ _Paradise Lost_, II. 652.

215. _Marquis Wellesley._ Richard Cowley, Marquis Wellesley
(1760–1842). Governor-General of India. He was made a Knight of the
Garter and Foreign Minister on his return from Madrid whither he
went as Ambassador in 1809.

_Stores of ladies._ Milton’s _L’Allegro_, 120.

_Lord Erskine._ Thomas Erskine (1750–1823), Advocate and Lord
Chancellor.

_Lord Stanhope._ Charles, Earl Stanhope (1753–1816). He was a
strenuous supporter of republican ideals and a man of many
inventions.

_The Orson of debate._ The bear-suckled hero of the fifteenth century
romance, _Valentine and Orson_, otherwise the _Wild Man of France_.

_A Satyr that comes staring from the woods._ Earl of Roscommon,
translation of Horace’s _Ars Poetica_, 281–2. Cf. _Ars Poetica_,
244, _et seq._

_Lord Eldon._ See _ante_, note to p. 158.

216. _Gave him good œillades._ See _ante_, note to p. 183.

_Foote’s Farce of Taste._ 1752.

218. _All tranquillity and smiles._ Cowper, _The Task_, IV. 49.

219. _Of mimic statesmen._ Pope, _Moral Essays_, iii. 309–10.

_God Almighty’s gentleman._ Dryden’s _Absolom and Achitophel_, Part I.
645.

_G—— D——._ George Dyer (1755–1841), miscellaneous writer. See Lamb’s
_Amicus Redivivus, Elia_, ed. Ainger, p. 281.

ESSAY XX. ON READING OLD BOOKS

From _The London Magazine_, Feb. 1821, vol. III. p. 128, ‘Table Talk, VII.,’ signed T.

220. _Lady Morgan._ (1783?–1859) A writer of Irish stories and of
other miscellaneous work in the early years of the nineteenth
century. Before her marriage in 1811 her works bore her maiden name,
Sydney Owenson. Her story, _The Wild Irish Girl_, a national tale,
published in 1806, passed through seven editions in two years.

_Anastasius._ Thomas Hope’s (1770–1831) Eastern romance published
1819, and warmly praised by the _Edinburgh Review_.

_Delphine._ Madame de Staël’s novel was published in 1802.

_In their newest gloss._ _Macbeth_, I. 7.

_Andrew Millar._ Thomson’s and Fielding’s publisher (1707–1768). ‘I
respect Millar, sir,’ said Dr. Johnson; ‘he has raised the price of
literature’ (Boswell’s _Johnson_, ed. G. B. Hill, I. 287). He was
succeeded by his partner, Thomas Cadell the elder.

_Thurloe’s State Papers._ _A Collection of State Papers_ (seven vols.
folio, 1742) by John Thurloe (1616–1668). He was Secretary of State
during the Protectorate.

_Sir William Temple’s Essays._ Published as _Miscellanea_ in 1680 and
1692. He was the first writer, says Dr. Johnson, who gave cadence to
English prose.

221. _For thoughts and for remembrance._ _Hamlet_, IV. 5.

_Bruscambille._ Sterne’s _Tristram Shandy_, Book III. chap. 35.

_The Memoirs of Lady Vane._ In _Peregrine Pickle_.

_The adventures at the masquerade._ _Tom Jones_, Book xiii. chap. 7.

221. _The disputes between Thwackum and Square._ _Ibid._ Book iii.
chap. 3.

_The escape of Molly Seagrim._ _Ibid._ Book iv. chap. 8.

_The incident of Sophia and her muff._ _Ibid._ Book v. chap. 4.

_Her Aunt’s lecture._ _Ibid._ Book vii. chap. 3.

222. _The puppets dallying._ _Hamlet_, III. 2.

_Ignorance was bliss._ Gray _On a Distant Prospect of Eton College_,
10.

_The Minerva press._ A publishing house in Leadenhall Street, which
issued, in the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the
nineteenth centuries, popular highly-coloured romances.

_Cooke’s pocket-edition._ See vols. I.-IV. of Cooke’s _Select Edition
of British Novels_ (1792). Mr. W. C. Hazlitt says Hazlitt became
acquainted with this book through his father being an original
subscriber to the series.

_Mrs. Radcliffe’s Romance of the Forest._ Ann Radcliffe’s (1764–1823)
book was published in 1791.

_Sweet in the mouth._ _Revelation_, x. 9.

_Gay creatures._ _Comus_, 299.

223. _Tom Jones discovers Square behind the blanket._ Book V. chap. 5.

_Parson Adams ... Mrs. Slip-Slop._ Book IV. chap. 14.

_Chubb’s Tracts._ Thomas Chubb’s (1679–1747) _Tracts and Posthumous
Works_ were published in six vols. 8vo., 1754. He was a deist.

_Fate, free-will, etc._ _Paradise Lost_, II. 560.

‘In wandering mazes lost.’

224. Note. _A friend, who had some lottery puffs._ Charles Lamb. See
vol. VI. _Table Talk_, p. 291.

_Would I had never seen Wittenberg._ _Dr. Faustus_, Scene 19.

_Hartley, Hume, Berkeley._ David Hartley (1705–1757) whose
_Observations on Man_ were published in 1749; David Hume
(1711–1776); George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne (1685–1753).

_Locke’s Essay on the Human Understanding._ 1690.

_Hobbes._ Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) of the _Leviathan_ (1651).

_The Social Contract._ Published 1762.

_I have spoken elsewhere._ See vol. I. _The Round Table_, ‘On the
Character of Rousseau.’

_Scattered like stray gifts._ Wordsworth, _Stray Pleasures_.

_The Emilius._ Published 1762.

_Sir Fopling Flutter._ In Sir George Etherege’s comedy _The Man of
Mode_ (1676).

225. _Leurre de dupe!_ An expression of Rousseau’s, _Confessions_,
Liv. IV.

_A load to sink a navy._ _King Henry VIII._, III. 2.

_Marcian Colonna is a dainty book._ Lamb’s _Sonnet to the author of
poems published under the name of Barry Cornwall_.

_Mr. Keats’s Eve of Saint Agnes._ Published 1820.

_Come like shadows._ _Macbeth_, IV. i.

_Tiger-moth’s wings._ Keats, _Eve of Saint Agnes_.

_Blushes ... with blood of queens and kings._ _Ibid._

_Words, words, words._ _Hamlet_, II. 2.

_The great preacher in the Caledonian Chapel._ Irving. See _ante_, p.
129.

226. _As the hart that panteth for the water-springs_ [brooks].
_Psalm_ xlii. 1.

_Goëthe’s Sorrows of Werter._ Finished in 1774. Cf. vol. V. _Lectures
on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth_, p. 362.

_Schiller’s Robbers._ 1781. See _Ibid._

_Giving my stock_ [sum] _of more_. _As You Like It_, II. 1.

_Valentine Tattle or Miss Prue._ Characters in Congreve’s _Love for
Love_ (1695). Valentine was Betterton’s great part, and F. Reynolds
declared that the love scene between Jack Bannister as Tattle and
Mrs. Jordan as Miss Prue was ‘probably never surpassed in rich
natural comedy.’

226. _Know my cue._

‘Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it
Without a prompter.’
_Othello_, I. 2.

_Intus et in cute._ See _ante_, note to p. 24.

_The celebrated Sir Humphrey Davy._ Sir Humphry Davy (1778–1829),
natural philosopher.

227. _The divine Clementina._ In Richardson’s _Sir Charles Grandison_
(1753).

_With every trick and line._ ‘line and trick.’ _All’s Well that Ends
Well_, I. 1.

_Graven_ [draw ...] _in my heart’s table_. _Ibid._

_Mackenzie._ Henry Mackenzie’s (1745–1831) _Julia de Roubigné_ was
published in 1777, six years after the _Man of Feeling_.

_Miss ——._ Probably the lady of _Liber Amoris_.

_That ligament, fine as it was._ _Tristram Shandy_, Book VI. chap. 10
(The Story of Le Fever).

_His story of the Hawk._ Boccaccio’s _Decameron_, 5th day, 9th story.
See vol. V. _Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of
Elizabeth_, note to p. 347.

_Farquhar ... Recruiting Officer._ 1706.

_At one proud_ [fell] _swoop_. _Macbeth_, IV. 3.

_Embalmed with odours._ _Paradise Lost_, II. 843.

_His form had not yet lost._ _Ibid._ I. 591.

228. _Falls flat upon the grunsel edge._ _Ibid._ I. 460.

_He, like an eagle._ _Coriolanus_, V. 6.

_An Essay on Marriage._ No such essay by Wordsworth is at present
known to exist. It would seem either that ‘Marriage’ is a misprint
for some other word, or that Hazlitt was mistaken in the subject of
the essay referred to by Coleridge. Hazlitt is probably recalling a
conversation with Coleridge in Shropshire at the beginning of 1798
(cf. ‘My First Acquaintance with Poets’), at which time _A Letter to
the Bishop of Llandaff_ (1793) was the only notable prose work which
Wordsworth had published.

Note. _Is this the present Earl?_ James Maitland, eighth Earl of
Lauderdale (1759–1839), succeeded his father in August 1789.

229. _Worthy of all acceptation._ _1 Timothy_, i. 15.

_Clarendon’s History of the Grand Rebellion._ 1704–7.

_Hollingshed._ Ralph Holinshed’s _Chronicles of Englande, Scotlande,
and Irelande_, 1577, and later issues.

_Stowe._ John Stow’s (1525?–1605) _Englysh Chronicles_, 1561, and
later issues, and _A Survay of London_, 1598, and later issues.

_Fuller’s Worthies._ Thomas Fuller’s (1608–1661) _The History of the
Worthies of England_, 1662.

‘_A Wife for a Month._’ 1623.

‘_Thierry and Theodoret._’ 1621.

_Guicciardini._ Francesco Guicciardini (1483–1540), author of a
History of Italy from 1494 to 1532.

_The Loves of Persiles and Sigismunda._ Cervantes’ last work, the
dedication of which was written four days before his death. A
translation from the French was printed in London in 1619, and from
the Spanish in 1854.

_Galatea._ Cervantes’ first work, a pastoral romance, printed at
Alcala in 1585.

_Another Yarrow._ Wordsworth’s _Yarrow Unvisited_.

ESSAY XXI. ON PERSONAL CHARACTER

From _The London Magazine_, March 1821, vol. III. p. 291, ‘Table Talk, VII.,’ signed T.

_As the flesh and fortune shall serve._ _Measure for Measure_, II. 1.

_And feels the ruling passion._ Pope’s _Moral Essays_, Ep. I. 262.

_Mr. Nicholson._ William Nicholson (1753–1815). He is often referred
to in Hazlitt’s _Life of Holcroft_. See vol. II. p. 91, etc.

_Hot, cold, moist, and dry._ See _ante_, note to p. 169.

_It is not in our stars._ _Julius Cæsar_, I. 2. ‘That we are
underlings.’

231. _To beguile the time._ _Macbeth_, I. 5.

_The child’s the father of the man._ Wordsworth’s ‘_My heart leaps
up_.’

232. _Fairfax and the starry Vere._ Marvell’s ‘Appleton House.’

_He saw the Chief-Justice Jeffries._ See _Evelyn’s Diary_ (ed. Bray,
1859), vol. II., p. 199.

233. _An old hair-brained uncle._ Loftus, brother of Mrs. Hazlitt,
wife of the Rev. W. Hazlitt.

_Mark or likelihood._ _1 King Henry IV._, III. 2.

_Instinct, Hal, instinct._ A misquotation from _1 King Henry IV._, II.
4.

_Beneath the hills._ Wordsworth’s _Excursion_, Book VI. [‘Amid the
groves, under the shadowy hills.’]

234. _Like that ensanguined_ [sanguine] _flower_. _Lycidas_, 106.

_As the flies of a summer._ Cf. Burke, _Reflections on the Revolution
in France_ (_Select Works_, Ed. Payne, II. 112).

_Most women have no character_ [characters]. Pope’s _Moral Essay_, Ep.
II. 2.

_Mary Wolstonecraft._ See _ante_, note to p. 41.

_Not to speak it profanely._ _Hamlet_, III. 2.

235. _Fideliter didicisse._ Ovid, _Ex Ponto Epist._, Lib. II. Ep. 9,
47.

237. _Fiery quality._ _King Lear_, II. 4.

_The shot of accident._ _Othello_, IV. 1.

_Quip, or crank._ Milton’s _L’Allegro_, 27.

238. _Have his nothings monstered._ _Coriolanus_, II. 2.

_Teres et rotundus._ ‘Fortis, et in se ipso totus, teres atque
rotundus.’ Horace, _Sat._ II. 7, 86.

_A friendly man will show himself friendly._ _Proverbs_, xviii. 24. ‘A
man that hath friends must show,’ etc.

_Richardson._ Jonathan Richardson (c. 1665–1745), author and
portrait-painter, whose works on painting fired the early enthusiasm
of Sir Joshua Reynolds.

239. ‘_The Honey-Moon._’ Tobin’s comedy, 1805.

240. _Can the Ethiopian change his skin?_ _Jeremiah_, xiii. 23.

_Villainous low._ _The Tempest_, IV. 1.

_Panopticon._ See _ante_, note to p. 129.

241. _The author of the year 2500._ Louis Sébastien Mercier
(1740–1814). See Vol. II. _The Life of Thomas Holcroft_, p. 107 and
note.

_Servum pecus imitatorum._ ‘O imitatores, servum pecus,’ etc. Horace,
Ep. I. 19, 19.

ESSAY XXII. ON PEOPLE OF SENSE

From _The London Magazine_, April 1821, vol. III. p. 368, ‘Table Talk, IX.,’ signed T.

242. _Cabbala._ The oral law of the Jews.

_The demure, grave-looking._ ‘The grave, demure, insidious,
spring-nailed, velvet-pawed, green-eyed philosophers.’ Burke, _A
Letter to a Noble Lord_ (_Works_, Bohn, V. 142).

243. _Baxter._ Richard Baxter, the Nonconformist Divine (1615–1691).
See vol VI. _Mr. Northcote’s Conversations_, p. 364.

244. _Torn to tatters, to very rags._ _Hamlet_, III. 2.

_The pillar’d firmament._ _Comus_, 598.

Note. _The Spanish Inquisition._ See vol. III. _Political Essays_,
note to p. 33, and vol. VI. _Table Talk_, note to p. 156.

246. _Mr. Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound._ Published in 1820. Shelley
was drowned in 1822 (See footnote).

_Gorgons and Hydras._ _Paradise Lost_, II. 628.

_With eye severe._ _As You Like It_, II. 7.

_When he banished the poets._ _The Republic_, Book X.

_Full of wise saws._ _As You Like It_, II. 7.

247. _Chrestomathic School._ See vol. IV. _The Spirit of the Age_,
note to p. 190.

_Princes’ palaces._ ‘Poor men’s cottages, princes’ palaces.’ _Merchant
of Venice_, I. 2.

_The tailors at Laputa._ _Gulliver’s Travels_, A Voyage to Laputa,
chapter 2.

249. _What can we reason._ Pope’s _Essay on Man_, I. 18.

_When_ [where] _thieves break through_. _S. Matthew_, vi. 19.

_Dyot-street, Bloomsbury-square._ See vol. VI. _Table Talk_, Note to
p. 120.

_An aerie of children._ _Hamlet_, II. 2.

_A Panopticon._ See _ante_, note to p. 129.

_So work the honey-bees._ _King Henry V._, I. 2.

_Shedding_ [casting] _a dim, religious light_. _Il Penseroso_, 160.

_Their speech bewrayeth them._ _S. Matthew_, xxvi. 73.

250. _Mankind act from calculation._ Bentham’s _Principles of Morals
and Legislation_, chap. xiv. § 28. See vol. IV. _The Spirit of the
Age_, p. 196 and note.

251. _So runs_ [says] _the bond_. _Merchant of Venice_, IV. 1.

_The author of St. Leon._ Godwin’s _Tale of the Sixteenth Century_
appeared in 1799.

_The author of the Political Justice._ Godwin.

_Norma loquendi._ Horace, _De Arte Poet._, 72.

252. _Astolpho’s voyage._ _Orlando Furioso_, Book XVIII.

_Highest_ [brightest] _Heaven of invention_. _King Henry V._,
Prologue.

ESSAY XXIII. ON ANTIQUITY

From _The London Magazine_, May 1821, Vol. III. p. 527, ‘Table Talk X.,’ signed T.

_Auld Robin Gray._ Believed at first to be a ‘relique.’ Lady Ann
Barnard (1750–1825) acknowledged the authorship to Sir Walter Scott
in 1823.

253. _Lively, audible and full of vent._ ‘Waking, audible and full of
vent.’ _Coriolanus_, IV. 5.

_Amadis de Gaul._ A prose romance of knightly adventures of Portuguese
origin (Vasco de Lobeira, d. 1403).

_The seven Champions of Christendom._ By Richard Johnson (1573–1659?).
Published 1596–97. It was one of the books of Thomas Holcroft’s
boyhood.

254. _The dark rearward._ Cf. ‘In the dark backward and abysm of
time.’ _The Tempest_, I. 2.

_The wars of old Assaracus._ Spenser, _The Faerie Queene_, II. IX. 56.

_Triple bob-majors._ A term in church-bell ringing.

_Chaos and old night._ _Paradise Lost_, I. 543.

_Cimabue, Giotto, and Ghirlandaio._ Giovanni Cimabue (1240–c. 1302),
the first great artist of the Florentine School; Giotto di Bondone
(c. 1266–1336), Cimabue’s pupil, one of the greatest of the early
Italian painters; and Domenico Curradi, nicknamed Il Ghirlandajo
(the garland-maker) (1449–1494).

255. _The Chronicle of Brute._ Spenser’s _Faerie Queene_, Book II.