Chapter XXXVI: Part II: , Book I. chap. 9

_Marcella._ _Ibid._ Part I., Book I. chaps. 12 and 13.

_His Galatea_, _etc._ _Galatea_, 1585; _Persiles and
Sigismunda_, 1616.

111. _Gusman D’Alfarache._ By Mateo Aleman, published in 1599.

_Lazarillo de Tormes._ Attributed to Diego Hurtado de Mendoza
(1503-1575), published in 1553.

_Gil Blas._ The _Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane_ of
Alain-René le Sage (1668-1747) appeared in 4 vols.,
1715-1735.

112. _Smollett is more like Gil Blas._ In the Preface to _Roderick
Random_ he admitted his obligation to Le Sage.

113. _Tom Jones._ Published in 1749.

114. ‘_I was never so handsome_,’ _etc._ _Tom Jones_, Book XVII.
chap. 4.

_The story of Tom Jones_, _etc._ Cf. the well-known dictum of
Coleridge (_Table Talk_, July 5, 1834), ‘Upon my word, I
think the Œdipus Tyrannus, the Alchemist, and Tom Jones, the
three most perfect plots ever planned.’

_Amelia and Joseph Andrews._ Published in 1751 and 1742
respectively.

_Amelia, and the hashed mutton._ Cf. Hazlitt’s essay ‘A
Farewell to Essay-writing,’ from which it appears that
the article in the _Edinburgh Review_ from which this
lecture is taken was the result of a ‘sharply-seasoned
and well-sustained’ discussion with Lamb, kept up till
midnight.

115. _Roderick Random._ Published in 1748, when Smollett was 27;
_Tom Jones_ was published in 1749, when Fielding was 42.

116. _Intus et in cute._ Persius, _Satires_, III. 30.

117. _Peregrine Pickle ... and Launcelot Graves._ 1751 and 1762
respectively.

_Humphrey Clinker and Count Fathom._ 1771 and 1753
respectively.

_Richardson._ The three novels of Samuel Richardson (1689-1761)
appeared as follows: _Pamela_ in 1740; _Clarissa Harlowe_ in
1747-8; _Sir Charles Grandison_ in 1753.

119. _Dr. Johnson ... when he said_, _etc._ Boswell’s _Life of
Johnson_ (ed. G. B. Hill), II. 174.

120. ‘_Books are a real world_,’ _etc._ Wordsworth, _Personal Talk_,
St. 3.

_Sterne._ Laurence Sterne’s (1713-1768) _Tristram Shandy_
appeared in 9 vols. 1759-1767, and _A Sentimental Journey_ (2
vols.) in 1768.

121. _Goldsmith ... should call him_, _etc._ Boswell’s _Life of
Johnson_ (ed. G. B. Hill), II. 222.

123. ‘_Have kept the even tenor of their way._’ Gray’s _Elegy_, 76.

_Evelina, Cecilia, and Camilla._ By Frances Burney, Madame
D’Arblay (1752-1840), published respectively in 1778, 1782,
and 1796.

_Mrs. Radcliffe._ Ann Radcliffe (1764-1822), author of _The
Romance of the Forest_ (1791), _The Mysteries of Udolpho_
(1794), etc.

‘_Enchantments drear._’ _Il Penseroso_, 119.

_Mrs. Inchbald._ Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821), novelist,
dramatist, and actress. Her _Nature and Art_ appeared in
1796, _A Simple Story_ in 1791.

_Miss Edgeworth._ Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849). _Castle
Rackrent_ appeared in 1800.

_Meadows._ In _The Wanderer_.

Note. _The Fool of Quality_, by Henry Brooke (1766); _David
Simple_, by Sarah Fielding (1744); and _Sidney Biddulph_, by
Mrs. Sheridan (1761).

124. _It has been said of Shakspeare_, _etc._ By Pope. See
_Hazlitt’s Characters of Shakespear’s Plays_, vol. I. p. 171
and note.

‘_There is nothing so true as habit._’ Windham, Speech on the
Conduct of the Duke of York, _Speeches_, III. 205, March 14,
1809.

125. ‘_Stand so_ [not] _upon the order_,’ _etc._ _Macbeth_, Act III.
Sc. 4.

_The green silken threads_, _etc._ _Don Quixote_, Part II. IV.
Chap. 58.

_The Wanderer._ 1814.

‘_The gossamer_,’ _etc._ _Romeo and Juliet_, Act II. Sc. 6.

127. _The Castle of Otranto._ By Horace Walpole (1764).

_Quod sic mihi_, _etc._ Horace, _Ars Poetica_, 188.

_The Recess_, by Sophia Lee (1785); _The Old English Baron_, by
Clara Reeve, originally published in 1777 under the title of
‘The Champion of Virtue, a Gothic Story.’

‘_Dismal treatises._’ _Macbeth_, Act V. Sc. 5.

_The Monk_, by Matthew Gregory Lewis, published in 1795 as
‘Ambrosio, or the Monk.’

‘_All the luxury of woe._’ Moore, _Juvenile Poems_, stanzas
headed ‘Anacreontic,’ beginning ‘Press the grape, and let it
pour,’ etc.

128. ‘_His chamber_,’ _etc._ _The Faerie Queene_, Book II. Canto ix.
St. 50.

129. ‘_Familiar in our mouths_,’ _etc._ _Henry V._, Act IV. Sc. 3.

130. _The author of Caleb Williams._ William Godwin (1756-1836).
_Caleb Williams_ appeared in 1794, _St. Leon_ in 1799,
_Mandeville_ in 1817.

‘_Action is momentary_,’ _etc._ These lines are slightly
misquoted from Wordsworth’s tragedy, _The Borderer_. See note
to vol. IV., p. 276.

132. _Political Justice._ _An Inquiry concerning Political Justice
and its Influence on Morals and Happiness_, 1793.

‘_Where his treasure_,’ _etc._ _St. Matthew_, vi. 21.

LECTURE VII. ON THE WORKS OF HOGARTH—ON THE GRAND AND FAMILIAR STYLE
OF PAINTING

A great part of this lecture is taken from two papers in _The
Examiner_, republished in _The Round Table_. See vol. I. pp. 25-31,
and notes thereon.

133. _Hogarth._ William Hogarth (1697-1764).

‘_Instinct in every part._’ Cf. ‘Instinct through all
proportions low and high.’ _Paradise Lost_, XI. 562.

‘_Other pictures we see, Hogarth’s we read._’ ‘Other pictures
we look at,—his prints we read.’ Lamb’s _Essay on the Genius
and Character of Hogarth_, referred to below, p. 138.

_Not long ago._ In 1814.

134. ‘_Of amber-lidded snuff-box_,’ _etc._ Pope’s _Rape of the
Lock_, IV. 123.

134. ‘_A person, and a smooth dispose_,’ _etc._ _Othello_, Act I.
Sc. 3.

‘_Vice loses half_,’ _etc._ Burke, _Reflections on the
Revolution in France_ (_Select Works_, ed. Payne, II. 89).

137. ‘_All the mutually reflected charities._’ Burke, _Reflections
on the Revolution in France_ (_Select Works_, ed. Payne, II.
40).

‘_Frequent and full_,’ _etc._ _Paradise Lost_, I. 795-7.

138. _Mr. Lamb’s Essay._ Published in _The Reflector_ (1811) and
reprinted in _Poems, Plays and Essays_ (ed. Ainger).

_What distinguishes_, _etc._ The remainder of the lecture from
this point had not appeared in _The Examiner_ or _The Round
Table_.

139. _Mr. Wilkie._ David Wilkie (1785-1841), Royal Academician 1811,
knighted 1836.

_Teniers._ David Teniers, the younger (1610-1690).

‘_To shew vice_,’ _etc._ Adapted from _Hamlet_, Act III. Sc. 2.

140. ‘_The very error of the time._’ Cf. ‘The very error of the
moon,’ _Othello_, Act V. Sc. 2.

‘_Your lungs_,’ _etc._ _As You Like It_, Act II. Sc. 7.

_Bagnigge Wells._ Sadler’s Wells. Hazlitt refers to Hogarth’s
‘Evening,’ one of the four ‘Times of Day.’

142. _Parson Ford._ Johnson’s cousin, Cornelius Ford. See Boswell’s
_Life of Johnson_ (ed. G. B. Hill), i. 49. The figure in
Hogarth’s picture has also been identified with ‘Orator’
Henley.

143. ‘_Die of a rose_,’ _etc._ Pope, _Essay on Man_, 1, 200.

_In the manner of Ackerman’s dresses for May._ _Moore, Horace,
Ode XI., Lib. 2._ _Freely translated by the Pr—ce R—g—t._

144. ‘_The Charming Betsy Careless._’ See the last of the series of
‘The Rake’s Progress,’ the scene in Bedlam. One of the
lunatics has scratched the name on the bannisters.

‘_Stray-gifts of love and beauty._’ Wordsworth, _Stray
Pleasures_.

145. _Sir Joshua Reynolds._ See _Table-Talk_, vol. VI. p. 131 _et
seq._

146. ‘_Conformed to this world_,’ _etc._ _Romans_, xii. 2.

‘_Give to airy nothing_,’ _etc._ _A Midsummer Night’s Dream_,