Chapter IV: September 28

106. _First and last and midst._ _Paradise Lost_, v. 165.

_Worn them as a rich jewel._ Hazlitt quotes from himself. See vol. VI., _Table Talk_, p. 174.

_Thrown into the pit._ Cf. _Genesis_ xxxvii. 24.

_School calleth unto School._ _Psalm_ xlii. 7: ‘deep calleth to deep.’

107. _My theme_ [shame] _in crowds_. Goldsmith, _The Deserted Village_, 412.

_Brave o’er-hanging firmament._ _Hamlet_, Act II. Sc. 2.

_Hang upon the beatings of my heart._ Wordsworth, _Tintern Abbey_.

_Stood the statue that enchants the world._ Thomson, _The Seasons, Summer_, 1347.

_There was old Proteus._ Altered from Wordsworth’s Sonnet, ‘The world is too much with us.’

_Sit squat, like a toad._ _Paradise Lost_, IV. 800.

108. _The death of the King._ Louis XVIII. of France died in September 1824.

_Sir Thomas Lawrence._ Portrait-painter (1769–1830).

109. _To cure_ [drive] _all sadness but despair_. _Paradise Lost_, IV. 156.

_Verdurous wall of Paradise._ _Ibid._, IV. 143.

_In darkness visible._ _Ibid._, I. 63.

_Hulling._ ‘Hull on the flood.’ _Ibid._, XI. 840.

_Blind with rain._

Cf. ‘When the chill rain begins at shut of eve
In dull November, and their chancel vault,
The Heaven itself, is blinded throughout night.’
Keats’s _Hyperion_, II. 36–38.

_Lord Byron ... Heaven and Earth._ Sc. III.

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110. _Le Brun._ See _ante_, note to p. 25.

_Sebastian Bourdon._ French painter and engraver (1616–1671). He was one of the twelve artists who founded the Academy of Painting and Sculpture in 1648.

_Le Sueur._ Eustache Le Sueur (1616–1655), French historical painter, also one of the twelve (see above). He is one of the greatest of French painters, and is often called the French Raphael.

_Philip Champagne._ Philippe de Champaigne (1602–1674), of the French school of historical and portrait painting, though of Brussels birth. He was one of the first members of the Academy, worked for Cardinal Richelieu, and was greatest as a portrait painter.

_David._ See _ante_, note to p. 30.

_Daniel Volterra._ Daniele Ricciarelli, or Daniele da Volterra from the place of his birth (1509–1566), the friend of Michael Angelo, who aided him in his chief work, the frescoes in the Capella Orsini, Trinità de Monti, Rome.

111. _Weenix._ Jan Weenix (1640–1719), of Amsterdam, noted for his painting of dead game.

_Wouvermans._ See _ante_, note to p. 21.

_Ruysdael._ See _ante_, note to p. 22.

_Non equidem invideo, miror magis._ Virgil, _Eclogues_, I. 11.

112. _Thick as the autumnal leaves._ _Paradise Lost_, I. 303.

113. _Founded as the rock._ _Macbeth_, Act III. Sc. 4.

_Coop’d_ [cribb’d] _and cabin’d_. _Macbeth_, Act III. Sc. 4.