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147. _Mademoiselle Mars._ See vol. VII., _The Plain Speaker_, pp. 324 _et seq._

_Mrs. Jordan._ Dorothea or Dorothy Jordan (1762–1816). See vol. VIII., containing Hazlitt’s dramatic writings, for criticism upon her and the following actresses.

_Mrs. Siddons._ Sarah Siddons (1755–1831).

_Miss Farren._ Elizabeth Farren (1759?-1829), Countess of Derby. See vol. VIII., _Lectures on the Comic Writers_, 165, etc.

_Mrs. Abington._ Frances Abington (1737–1815).

_Miss O’Neil._ Eliza O’Neil (1791–1872), afterwards Lady Becher. See vol. I., _The Round Table_, note to p. 156, and vol. VIII. _A View of the English Stage_, p. 291.

_Flavia the least and slightest toy._ Bishop Atterbury’s _Flavia’s Fan_.

149. _Monsieur Damas._ For more than twenty-five years one of the most brilliant actors at the Comédie Française. He retired from the stage in 1825 and died in 1834.

151. _Midsummer madness._ _Twelfth Night_, Act III. Sc. 4.

_Mr. Bartolino Saddletree._ See Scott’s _Heart of Midlothian_.

_Whole loosened soul._

Cf. ‘All my loose soul unbounded springs to thee.’
Pope, _Eloisa to Abelard_, 228.

_Mrs. Orger._ Mrs. Mary Ann Orger (1788–1849), chiefly remembered for her excellence in farce at Drury Lane.

152. _Mr. Braham._ The famous tenor. See note to vol. VII., _The Plain Speaker_, p. 70.

Note. _No single volume paramount._ Wordsworth, _Poems dedicated to National Independence and Liberty_, XV., Sonnet beginning ‘Great men have been among us.’

153. _Odry._ Jacques-Charles Odry (1781–1853). He played at the Variétés for forty years, the idol of his audiences.

_Monsieur Potier._ Charles Potier (1775–1838), comic actor.

154. _Brunet._ Jean-Joseph Mira, called Brunet (1766–1851).

_Talma._ François Joseph Talma (1763–1826), one of the greatest of French tragic actors.

_Mademoiselle Georges._ Marguerite-Joséphine Weimer, otherwise Georges (1787–1867), one of the most famous actresses of her day, beautiful, haughty, and wayward.

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154. _Madame Paradol._ Anne-Catherine-Lucinde Prévost-Paradol (1798–1843).

_Mademoiselle Duchesnois._ Catherine-Joseph Rufuin, otherwise Duchesnois (1777–1835), classical tragédienne. She was an intimate friend of Talma, and has been considered his equal. The rivalry between her and the beautiful Mlle. Georges extended to their respective admirers and to the press.