Chapter XXIX: Letter XLIX: ‘And ever,’ etc. L’Allegro, 135-6

_The reply of the author_, _etc._ This was Richard Owen
Cambridge (1717-1802), contributor to Edward Moore’s _The
World_ (1753-1756).

‘_Full of sound and fury_,’ _etc._ _Macbeth_, Act V. Sc. 5.

‘_For thin partitions_,’ _etc._ Dryden, _Absalom and
Achitophel_, Part I. 164.

_Mr. Curran._ Curran had died on October 14, 1817.

22. _Hæret lateri_, _etc._ _Æneid_, IV. 73.

_The Duke of Buckingham’s saying._ ‘And give me leave to tell
your lordships, by the way, that statutes are not like women,
for they are not one jot the worse for being old.’ Speech on
the Dissolution of Parliament, 1676. The speech was included
by Hazlitt in his _Eloquence of the British Senate_. See vol.
III. p. 399.

_Mr. Addison, indeed_, _etc._ _The Spectator_, No. 61.

_Mandrake._ In Farquhar’s _The Twin Rivals_, Act II. Sc. 2.

_Sir Hugh Evans._ _The Merry Wives of Windsor_, Act I. Sc. 1.

23. ‘_From the sublime_,’ _etc._ ‘Du sublime au ridicule il n’y a
qu’un pas.’ Attributed to Napoleon. Thomas Paine had,
however, said the same thing in his _Age of Reason_, Part II.

24. _Mr. Canning’s Court Parodies_, _etc._ In the _Anti-Jacobin_
(1797-1798). Southey was the victim of two of the best known
of these parodies, the _Inscription for the door of the Cell
in Newgate where Mrs. Brownrigg, the Prentice-cide, was
confined previous to her execution_, and _The Friend of
Humanity and the Knife-Grinder_.

_The Rejected Addresses._ By James and Horace Smith, published
in 1812. The parody of Crabbe was by James Smith.

_Lear and the Fool._ The references in this paragraph are to
_King Lear_, Act I. Sc. 4.

‘_’Tis with our judgments_,’ _etc._ Pope, _Essay on Criticism_,
9-10.

25. ‘_He is the cause_,’ _etc._ Cf. ‘I am not only witty in myself,
but the cause that wit is in other men.’ _Henry IV._, Part
II., Act I. Sc. 2.

‘_That perilous stuff_,’ _etc._ _Macbeth_, Act V. Sc. 3.

‘_Imitate humanity_,’ _etc._ _Hamlet_, Act III. Sc. 2.

26. _Barrow’s celebrated description._ See Isaac Barrow’s (1630-77)
sermon ‘Against Foolish Talking and Jesting.’

27. ‘_Who did essay_,’ _etc._ _The Faerie Queene_, Book II., Canto
VI., St. 7.

28. _Barnaby Brittle._ See _post_, note to p. 481.

29. _The strictures of Rousseau._ Lettre à M. D’Alembert. _Petits
Chefs-d’œuvre_ (ed. Firmin-Didot), pp. 405 _et seq._

_An exquisite ... defence._ See _La Critique de l’École des
Femmes_, Sc. 6.

‘_An equal want_,’ _etc._ ‘But equally a want of books and
men.’ Wordsworth, _Poems dedicated to National Independence
and Liberty_, XV., Sonnet beginning ‘Great men have been
among us; hands that penned,’ etc.

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30. _Dr. Johnson thought, etc._ See his _Preface to Shakespeare_
(_Works_, Oxford, 1825, vol. V. p. 113).

‘_Smit with the love of sacred song._’ _Paradise Lost_, III.
29.

31. _There is but one_, _etc._ Hazlitt is recalling Dryden’s line,
‘within that circle none must walk but he.’ (Prologue to _The
Tempest_.)

‘_Not to speak it profanely._’ _Hamlet_, Act III. Sc. 2.

‘_Like an unsubstantial pageant faded._’ _The Tempest_, Act IV.
Sc. 1.

32. ‘_He is the leviathan_,’ _etc._ Hazlitt adapts a passage of
Burke’s: ‘The Duke of Bedford is the leviathan among all the
creatures of the Crown. He tumbles about his unwieldy bulk;
he plays and frolics in the ocean of the royal bounty.’ _A
Letter to a Noble Lord_ (_Works_, Bohn, V. 129).

‘_A consummation_,’ _etc._ _Hamlet_, Act III. Sc. 1.

_The description of Queen Mab._ In _Romeo and Juliet_, Act I.
Sc. 4.

‘_The shade of melancholy boughs._’ _As You Like It_, Act II.
Sc. 7.

‘_Give a very echo_,’ _etc._ _Twelfth Night_, Act II. Sc. 4.

‘_Oh! it came_,’ _etc._ _Ibid._ Act I. Sc. 1.

33. ‘_Covers a multitude of sins._’ I. _Peter_, iv. 8.

_The ligament_, _etc._ Cf. ‘And that ligament, fine as it was,
was never broken.’ _Tristram Shandy_, VI. 10.

_The Society for the Suppression of Vice._ Cf. _The Round
Table_, vol. I. p, 60 and note.

‘_He has been merry_,’ _etc._ _Henry IV._, Part II., Act V. Sc.
3.

‘_Heard the chimes at midnight._’ _Ibid._, Act III. Sc. 2.

34. ‘_Come on, come on_, _etc._ _Ibid._

35. ‘_One touch of nature_,’ _etc._ _Troilus and Cressida_, Act
III. Sc. 3.

‘_It is apprehensive_, _etc._ _Henry IV._, Part II., Act IV.
Sc. 3.

36. ‘_Go to church_,’ _etc._ _Twelfth Night_, Act I. Sc. 3.

_Tattle and Sparkish._ In Congreve’s _Love for Love_ and
Wycherley’s _The Country Wife_ respectively.

‘_All beyond Hyde Park_,’ _etc._ Sir George Etherege’s _The Man
of Mode_, Act V. Sc. 2.

‘_Lay waste a country gentleman._’ Hazlitt uses this expression
elsewhere. See his character of Cobbett in _The Spirit of the
Age_ (vol. IV. p. 334), where he says that Cobbett ‘lays
waste a city orator or Member of Parliament.’

_Lord Foppington._ In Vanbrugh’s _The Relapse_.

‘_The Prince of coxcombs_,’ _etc._

‘_Fashion._ Now, by all that’s great and powerful, thou art the
prince of coxcombs.

_Lord Foppington._ Sir—I am proud of being at the head of so
prevailing a party.’

_The Relapse_, Act III. Sc. 1.

‘_Manners damnable_,’ _etc._ See the dialogue between
Touchstone and Corin in _As You Like It_, Act III. Sc. 2.

37. ‘_Airy nothing._’ _A Midsummer Night’s Dream_, Act V. Sc. 1.

‘_Love’s golden shaft_,’ _etc._ _Twelfth Night_, Act I. Sc. 1.

‘_There the mind_,’ _etc._ ‘Therein the patient must minister
to himself.’ _Macbeth_, Act V. Sc. 3.

‘_Of solitude_,’ _etc._ Cf. ‘Of solitude and melancholy born.’
Beattie, _The Minstrel_, Canto I. St. 56.

38. ‘_In the crust of formality._’ Hazlitt elsewhere attributes
this phrase to Milton.

_To wanton in the idle summer air._ Cf. ‘That idles in the
wanton summer air.’ _Romeo and Juliet_, Act II. Sc. 6.

39. ‘_Does mad and fantastic execution_,’ _etc._ _Troilus and
Cressida_, Act V. Sc. 5.

_Schlegel observes_, _etc._ In his _Lectures on Dramatic
Literature_ (No. XXVII.) the English version of which was
reviewed by Hazlitt in _The Edinburgh Review_ for Feb. 1816.

‘_Lively, audible_,’ _etc._ ‘Waking, audible, and full of
vent.’ _Coriolanus_, Act IV. Sc. 5.

40. _Captain Otter._ In _The Silent Woman_ (1609).

‘_Bless’d conditions._’ _Othello_, Act II. Sc. 1.

‘_If to be wise_,’ _etc._ Cf. ‘Let it be virtuous to be
obstinate.’ _Coriolanus_, Act V. Sc. 3.

41. ‘_The gayest_,’ _etc._ Akenside, _Pleasures of the
Imagination_, I. 30.

_Aliquando sufflaminandus erat._ See Ben Jonson’s _Timber: or,
Discoveries_, LXIV., and note to _The Spirit of the Age_,
vol. IV. p. 336.

_Howel’s Letters._ See the _Familiar Letters_ of James Howell,
10th ed., 1737, pp. 323-4.

42. _Jamque opus_, _etc._ Ovid, _Metamorphoses_, XV. 871.

_Exegi monumentum_, _etc._ Horace, _Odes_, III. 30, 1.

_O fortunatam_, _etc._ Cicero, _De Suis Temporibus_, quoted by
Juvenal, _Satire_ X. 122.

_A detailed account._ In _Characters of Shakespear’s Plays_
(1817).

l. 23. In the third edition the following sentence is
interpolated: ‘It has been observed of this author, that he
painted not so much human nature as temporary manners; not
the characters of men, but their humours; that is to say,
peculiarities of phrase, modes of dress, gesture, etc., which
becoming obsolete, and being in themselves altogether
arbitrary and fantastical, have become unintelligible and
uninteresting.’ Hazlitt probably refers to Schlegel. See
_Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature_ (trans. John Black,
ed. 1900, p. 464).

_The meeting between Morose and Epicene._ Act II. Sc. 3.

43. _O’er step_, _etc._ _Hamlet_, Act III. Sc. 2.

_The scene between Sir Amorous La Foole and Sir John Daw_,
_etc._ See _The Silent Woman_, Act IV. Sc. 2, and _Twelfth
Night_, Act III. Sc. 4.

_Decorum ... which Milton says_, _etc._ _On Education_
(_Works_, 1738, 1. p. 140).

_Truewit._ In _The Silent Woman._

_Thus Peregrine, in Volpone_, _etc._ Act II. Sc. 1. _Volpone_
was first acted in 1605.

_This play was Dryden’s favourite._ Hazlitt refers to _The
Silent Woman_, of which Dryden gives an ‘Examen’ in his
_Essay of Dramatic Poesy_ (_Select Essays_, ed. Ker, I. 83
_et seq._).

_Truewit says._ _The Silent Woman_, Act IV. Sc. 2.

‘_Even though we should hold_,’ _etc._ Cf. ‘All which, sir,
though I most powerfully and potently believe, yet I hold it
not honesty to have it thus set down.’ _Hamlet_, Act II. Sc.
2.

_The directions for making love._ _The Silent Woman_, Act IV.
Sc. 1.

44. ‘_Hood an ass_,’ _etc._ _Volpone_, Act I. Sc. 1.

_Every Man in his Humour._ First acted in 1598, this play held
the stage until Hazlitt’s time. Cf. his notice of Kean’s
Kitely in _A View of the English Stage_, _post_, p. 310.
Dickens played the part of Bobadil in 1845.

‘_As dry as the remainder biscuit after a voyage._’ _As You
Like It_, Act II. Sc. 7.

_His well-known proposal_, _etc._ _Every Man in his Humour_,
Act IV. Sc. 5.

45. _The scene in which Brainworm_, _etc._ _Ibid._ Act I. Sc. 2.

_Bartholomew Fair._ Produced in 1614.

_The Alchymist._ Produced in 1610.

_One glorious scene._ Act II. Sc. 1.

48. _Beaumont and Fletcher._ Cf. vol. V., p. 261 and note.

_The Inconstant._ Farquhar’s comedy (1703).

49. _Mrs. Jordan._ Mrs. Jordan had died on May 24, 1817.

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‘_The metaphysical poets_,’ _etc._ Johnson, Life of Cowley in
_The Lives of the Poets_.

_The father of criticism._ Aristotle. See the _Poetics_.

50. ‘_Hitch into a rhyme._’ Pope, _Imitations of Horace_, Satires,