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51. ‘_And though reclaim’d_,’ _etc._ Cowper, _The Task_, IV. 723-5.

_Donne._ John Donne (1573-1631).

‘_Heaved pantingly forth._’ _King Lear_, Act IV. Sc. 3.

‘_Buried quick again._’ Hamlet’s words ‘Be buried quick with
her, and so will I’ (Act V. Sc. 1), were perhaps in Hazlitt’s
mind.

‘_Little think’st thou_,’ _etc._ _Poems_ (‘Muses’ Library,’ I.
63).

52. _A lame and impotent conclusion._ _Othello_, Act II. Sc. 1.

‘_Whoever comes_,’ _etc._ _Poems_, i. 61.

‘_I long to talk_,’ _etc._ _Ibid._ I. 56.

53. ‘_Here lies_,’ _etc._ _Ibid._ I. 86.

_To the pure_, _etc._ _Titus_ I. 15.

_Bishop Hall’s Satires._ The Satires of Joseph Hall
(1574-1656), Bishop of Exeter (1627) and of Norwich (1641),
were published in 1597 and 1598 under the title of
_Virgidemiarum, Sixe Bookes_. For Pope’s admiration of him
see _Works_, ed. Elwin and Courthope, III. 423.

_Sir John Davies_ (1569-1626). His _Orchestra, or a Poeme of
Dancing_, appeared in 1596, his _Nosce Teipsum_, a poem on
the immortality of the soul, in 1599.

_Crashaw._ Richard Crashaw (1612?-1649). The ‘celebrated Latin
Epigram’ appeared in a volume of Latin poems and epigrams
published in 1634. The line referred to by Hazlitt, ‘Nympha
pudica Deum vidit, et erubuit,’ is the last of a four-line
epigram. See Boswell’s _Life of Johnson_ (ed. Croker, 1847,
p. 598).

‘_Seething brains._’ _A Midsummer Night’s Dream_, Act V. Sc. 1.

_The contest between the Musician and the Nightingale._
_Musick’s Duel_, a version from the Latin of the Roman Jesuit
Strada, paraphrased also by Ford in _The Lover’s Melancholy_,
Act. I. Sc. 1.

_Davenant’s Gondibert._ The _Gondibert_ of Sir William
D’Avenant (1606-1668), published in 1651.

54. ‘_Yet on that wall_,’ _etc._ _Gondibert_, Book II. Canto V. St.
33.

_Marvel._ Cf. _Lectures on the English Poets_, vol. V. p. 83.

‘_And sat not as a meat_,’ _etc._ _The Character of Holland_,
1. 30.

_One whose praise_, _etc._ Probably Lamb.

_Shadwell._ Thomas Shadwell (1642?-1692). _The Libertine_
appeared in 1676.

_Carew._ Thomas Carew (1598?-1639?). The reference to him in
Sir John Suckling’s _Session of the Poets_ (1637) is as
follows:—

‘Tom Carew was next, but he had a fault
That would not stand well with a laureat;
His Muse was hard bound, and th’ issue of’s brain
Was seldom brought forth but with trouble and pain.’

_His masque._ Performed in Feb. 1633-4.

55. _Milton’s name_, _etc._ Johnson, in his _Life of Cowley_, says:
‘Milton tried the metaphysick style only in his lines upon
Hobson, the carrier.’

‘_Aggregation of ideas._’ ‘Sublimity,’ says Johnson (_Life of
Cowley_), ‘is produced by aggregation, and littleness by
dispersion.’

‘_Inimitable on earth_,’ _etc._ _Paradise Lost_, III. 508-9.

_Suckling._ Sir John Suckling (1609-1642). Johnson refers
to him in his _Life of Cowley_ as one of the ‘immediate
successors’ of the metaphysical poets, but adds: ‘Suckling
neither improved versification, nor abounded in conceits. The
fashionable style remained chiefly with Cowley; Suckling
could not reach it, and Milton disdained it.’

57. _Cowley._ Cf. vol. V. p. 372.

‘_The Phœnix Pindar_,’ _etc._ _The Praise of Pindar_, l. 2.

‘_Sailing with supreme dominion_,’ _etc._ Gray, _The Progress
of Poesy_, III. 3.

58. _He compares Bacon to Moses._ ‘Bacon, like Moses, led us forth
at last.’ _To the Royal Society._

60. _Cowley’s Essays._ Published in 1668.

61. _Cutter of Coleman Street._ _The Guardian_ acted at Cambridge
in 1641 and printed in 1650, afterwards re-written and
produced at Lincoln’s Inn Fields as ‘Cutter of Coleman
Street’ in 1661.

62. ‘_Call you this backing your friends?_’ _Henry IV._, Part I.,
Act II. Sc. 4.

_Butler’s Hudibras._ The three Parts of _Hudibras_ appeared in
1662, 1663, and 1678 respectively.

_Dr. Campbell._ Dr. George Campbell (1719-1796) published his
_Philosophy of Rhetoric_ in 1776.

‘_Narrow his mind_,’ _etc._ Goldsmith’s _Retaliation_, 31-2.

_Dr. Zachary Grey._ Zachary Grey’s (1688-1766) edition of
_Hudibras_ appeared in 1744.

63. Note. (1) Part II., Canto II. 297-8; and II., I. 617-20; (2)
II., I. 273-4; (3) I., II. 255-6; (4) I., II. 109-10; (5) I.,
II. 225-6; I., I. 241-252; and I., I. 375-8.

64. Note. (1) Part II. Canto II. 831-2, and II. III. 107-8; (2) II.
II. 421-2; (3) I. I. 59-60; (4) II. III. 809-10; (5) I. II.
1099-1102.

65. ‘_Pilloried_,’ _etc._ Cowper, _Hope_, 556.

‘_As one grain of wheat_,’ _etc._ _Merchant of Venice_, Act I.
Sc. 1.

_The account of Sidrophel and Whackum._ _Hudibras_, Part II.