Chapter XXXIV: Act IV: Sc. 3

‘_Quid sit pulchrum_,’ _etc._ Horace, Epistles, I. 2, ll. 3-4.

_Montaigne._ The _Essais_ of Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592),
were published, Books I. and II. in 1580, Book III. in 1588.

93. ‘_Pour out all as plain_,’ _etc._ Pope, _Imitations of Horace_,
Sat. I. 51-2.

Note.

‘What made (say Montaigne, or more sage Charron!)
Otho a warrior, Cromwell a buffoon.’

Pope, _Moral Essays_, I. 87-8.

_De la Sagesse_, the chief work of Montaigne’s friend Pierre
Charron (1541-1603), appeared in 1601.

94. ‘_Pereant isti_,’ _etc._ Ælius Donatus, St. Jerome, _Commentary
on Ecclesiastes_, Cap. I.

_Charles Cotton._ Cotton’s translation of Montaigne was
published in three volumes in 1685, and has frequently been
reprinted, the latest edition being that of Mr. W. C. Hazlitt
(republished 1902). The earlier version by John Florio (1603)
has been included in the _Tudor Translations_ (1893) and in
the _Temple Classics_ (1897).

‘_The book in the world_,’ _etc._ Cotton’s translation was
dedicated to George Savile, Marquis of Halifax, who, in his
reply, addressed to Cotton, spoke of the _Essays_ as ‘the
book in the world I am best entertained with.’

_Cowley_, _etc._ Abraham Cowley’s _Several Discourses by way of
Essays in Prose and Verse_ were appended to the collected
edition of his works in 1668; Sir

William Temple’s (1628-1699) essays entitled _Miscellanea_ were
published in 1680 and 1692; Lord Shaftesbury’s (1671-1713)
_Moralists_ in 1709, and _Characteristics_ in 1711.

94. Note. _Nam quodcumque_, _etc._ Lucretius, III. 752-3.

95. ‘_The perfect spy o’ th’ time._’ _Macbeth_, Act III. Sc. 1.

_The Tatler._ The first number of the _Tatler_ appeared on
April 12, 1709, the last on January 2, 1711. The papers were
re-issued in two forms, one in 8vo., one in 12mo., in
1710-11. Nearly the whole of this paragraph and the next is
taken from an essay in _The Examiner_ (March 5, 1815),
reprinted in _The Round Table_. See vol. I. pp. 7-10, and the
notes thereon.

96. Note. No. 86, not No. 125, of _The Tatler_.

_Mr. Lilly’s shop-windows._ Charles Lillie, the perfumer’s at
the corner of Beaufort Buildings in the Strand.

_Will Estcourt or Tom D’urfey._ Richard Estcourt (1668-1712),
actor and dramatist, and Tom D’Urfey (1653-1723), the
dramatist and song-writer, are constantly referred to in _The
Tatler_.

97. _The Spectator._ _The Spectator_ ran from March I, 1711, to
December 6, 1712, and from June 18, 1714, to December 20,
1714. The collected edition appeared in 8 vols., 1712-15.

‘_The whiteness of her hand._’ ‘She has certainly the finest
hand of any woman in the world.’ _The Spectator_, No. 113.

98. ‘_He has a widow in his line of life._’ _The Spectator_, No.
130.

_His falling asleep in church_, _etc._ _The Spectator_, No.
112. John Williams should be ‘one John Matthews.’

99. _The Guardian._ March 12, 1713, to October 1713. Of the 176
numbers Steele contributed 82, and Addison 53, papers.

100. _The Rambler._ March 20, 1749-50, to March 14, 1752.

‘_Give us pause._’ _Hamlet_, Act III. Sc. 1.

101. ‘_The elephant_,’ _etc._ _Paradise Lost_, IV. 345-7.

102. ‘_If he were to write_,’ _etc._ Boswell’s _Life of Johnson_
(ed. G. B. Hill), II. 231. _Abused Milton and patronised
Lauder._ See Boswell’s _Life of Johnson_ (ed. G. B. Hill), I
228-31.

103. ‘_The king of good fellows_,’ _etc._ Burns, _Auld Rob Morris_,
l. 2.

‘_Inventory of all he said._’ Cf. ‘And ta’en an inventory of
what they are.’ Ben Jonson, _The Alchemist_, Act III. Sc. 2.

‘_Does he wind_, _etc._ Boswell’s _Life of Johnson_ (ed. G. B.
Hill), II. 260.

‘_If that fellow Burke_,’ _etc._ _Ibid._ II. 450.

‘_What, is it you_,’ _etc._ _Ibid._ I. 250.

‘_Now I think I am_,’ _etc._ _Ibid._ II. 362.

_His quitting the society_, _etc._ _Ibid._ I. 201.

_His dining with Wilkes._ _Ibid._ III. 64 _et seq._

_His sitting with the young ladies._ _Ibid._ II. 120.

_His carrying the unfortunate victim_, _etc._ _Ibid._ IV. 321.

104. _An act which realises the parable of the good Samaritan._
Sergeant Talfourd, in his account of these Lectures, speaks
of the insensibility of the bulk of the audience, and adds:
‘He [Hazlitt] once had a more edifying advantage over them.
He was enumerating the humanities which endeared Dr. Johnson
to his mind, and at the close of an agreeable catalogue
mentioned as last and noblest “his carrying the poor victim
of disease and dissipation on his back through Fleet Street,”
at which a titter arose from some who were struck by the
picture as ludicrous, and a murmur from others who deemed the
allusion unfit for ears polite: he paused for an instant, and
then added, in his sturdiest and most impressive manner—“an
act which realizes the parable of the Good Samaritan”—at
which his moral, and his delicate hearers shrank, rebuked,
into deep silence.’ _Lamb’s Letters_ (ed. W. C. Hazlitt), I.
39-40.

104. ‘_Where they_,’ _etc._ Gray’s _Elegy_, The Epitaph.

_The Adventurer._ Nov. 7, 1752, to March 9, 1754. John
Hawkesworth (1715-1773) was the chief contributor.

_The World._ Jan. 4, 1753, to Dec. 30, 1756.

_The Connoisseur._ Jan. 31, 1754, to Sept. 30, 1756.

_One good idea_, _etc._ Hazlitt refers to a paper by Edward
Moore which appeared in _The World_ (No. 176), not, as he
says, in _The Connoisseur_.

_Citizen of the World._ Republished (from the _Public Ledger_
and elsewhere) in 2 vols., 1762.

‘_Go about to cozen_,’ _etc._ _Merchant of Venice_, Act II. Sc.
9.

_The Persian Letters._ Lord Lyttelton’s _Letters from a Persian
in England to his friend at Ispahan_, 1735.

‘_The bonzes_,’ _etc._ _The Citizen of the World_, Letter X.

105. ‘_Edinburgh. We are positive_,’ _etc._ _Ibid._ Letter V.

_Beau Tibbs._ _Ibid._ Letters XXIX., LIV., LV., and LXXI.

_The Lounger and The Mirror._ _The Mirror_ appeared in
Edinburgh from Jan. 23, 1779, to May 27, 1780; _The Lounger_
from Feb. 5, 1785, to Jan. 6, 1786. Henry Mackenzie was the
chief contributor to both.

_La Roche._ _The Mirror_, Nos. 42, 43, and 44.

_Le Fevre._ _Tristram Shandy_, VI. chaps. 6 _et seq._

_The Man of the World._ By Henry Mackenzie (1745-1831),
published in 1773.

_Julia de Roubigné._ Published in 1777.

_Rosamund Gray._ See Lamb’s _Poems, Plays, and Essays_, ed.
Ainger, Notes to _Rosamund Gray_, p. 391.

_The Man of Feeling._ Published in 1771.

LECTURE VI. ON THE ENGLISH NOVELISTS

The whole of this Lecture down to the end of the paragraph on p. 125
is taken with but few variations from an article in _The Edinburgh
Review_ for Feb. 1815, on ‘Standard Novels and Romances,’ ostensibly
a review of Madame D’Arblay’s _The Wanderer_.

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106. ‘_Be mine to read_,’ _etc._ Gray, in a letter to Richard West,
April 1742 (_Letters_, ed. Tovey, I. 97).

‘_Something more divine in it._’ Hazlitt is perhaps recalling a
passage in Bacon’s _Advancement of Learning_ (II. iv. 2): ‘So
as poesy serveth and conferreth to delectation, magnanimity,
and morality, ... it may seem deservedly to have some
participation of divineness,’ etc.

107. _Fielding in speaking_, _etc._ _Joseph Andrews_, Book III.
chap. 1.

_The description ... given by Mr. Burke._ _Reflections on the
Revolution in France_ (_Select Works_, ed. Payne, II. 92-3).

_Echard ‘On the Contempt of the Clergy.’_ John Eachard’s
(1636?-1697) _The Grounds and Occasions of the Contempt of
the Clergy and Religion enquired into_, published in 1670 and
frequently reprinted.

‘_Worthy of all acceptation._’ _1 Timothy_, 1. 15.

_The Lecture which Lady Booby reads_, _etc._ _Joseph Andrews_,