Chapter XXV: Act III: Sc. 3

235. _Dashed and brewed._ Dryden, _Absalom and Achitophel_, I. 114.

‘_To every good word_,’ _etc._ _Epistle to Titus_, I. 16.

238. ‘_All in conscience_,’ _etc._ Chaucer, _Prologue_, 150.

Note. _Tâtar._ Cf., _e.g._,

‘Persian and Copt and Tatar, in one bond
Of erring faith conjoin’d.’
_Roderick, the Last of the Goths_, I. 18–19.

See also _Notes and Queries_, tenth Series, I. 11, 12.

242. ‘_The fairest princess under sky._’ _The Faerie Queene_,
Introductory Stanzas, IV.

‘_Paint the lily_,’ _etc._ _King John_, Act IV. Sc. 2.

243. ‘_Famous poets’ verse._’ Spenser, _The Faerie Queene_, I. XI. 27,
and III. IV. 1.

‘_The spur_,’ _etc._ _Lycidas_, 70.

_Belvidera’s sorrows._ In Otway’s _Venice Preserved_.

245. _Occasion and Furor._ _The Faerie Queene_, Book II. Canto IV.

‘_Cymocles_,’ _etc._ _Ibid._, Book II. Canto VI.

_The philosopher of Malmesbury._ Hobbes.

250. _Horace’s ‘nine years.’_ ‘Nonumque prematur in annum.’ _Ars
Poetica_, 388.

‘_Que, si sous Adam_,’ _etc._ A line in Boileau’s tenth satire.
See the Conversation between the Abbé Delille and Walter Landor.

_General Mina._ The second volume of _Imaginary Conversations_ was
dedicated to General Espoz y Mina (1784–1835), the Spanish
patriot who opposed Napoleon, and, later, the tyranny of the
restored Bourbons.

_Balasteros._ Francisco Ballasteros (1770–1832), the Spanish
general, who had capitulated to the French invaders in 1823, and
been banished for life.

251. _Caviare to the multitude_ [general]. _Hamlet_, Act II. Sc. 2.

254. _Articles in The Friend._ See _The Friend_, February 8, 1810.
Coleridge referred to this essay, and quoted passages from it in
one of the articles he wrote in _The Courier_ in 1811. See
_Essays on his own Times_, III. 829 _et seq._ These articles are
probably alluded to by Hazlitt when he speaks of ‘strong
allusions ... in a celebrated journal.’

255. ‘_Final hope_,’ _etc._ _Paradise Lost_, II. 143.

‘_To shut_,’ _etc._ Cf. ‘She opened; but to shut excelled her
power.’ _Paradise Lost_, II. 883–884.

_Bolivar._ Simon Bolivar (1783–1830), ‘the Liberator’ of South
America. Landor dedicated to him the third volume of his
_Imaginary Conversations_.

_Gebir._ Published anonymously in 1798. ‘Many parts of it,’ says
Landor (Preface to 1831 edition), ‘were first composed in Latin;
and I doubted in which language to complete it.’

‘_Pleased they remember_,’ _etc._ Cf. _Gebir_, I. 168–169.

_Count Julian._ Published anonymously in 1812.

SHELLEY’S POSTHUMOUS POEMS

The volume here reviewed was published in 1824 by John and Henry L. Hunt. Hazlitt had little sympathy with Shelley either as a man or a poet. The grounds of his distrust of him as a man are given more than once, most fully, perhaps, in the essay ‘On Paradox and Common-Place’ (_Table Talk_, VI. 148–150), which led to the quarrel between Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt in 1821. See _Memoirs of William Hazlitt_, I. 304–315, and _Four Generations of a Literary Family_, I. 130–135. As for Shelley’s poetry, P. G. Patmore suggests that Hazlitt knew little or nothing of it. ‘Though I have often,’ he says (_My Friends and Acquaintance_, III. 136), ‘heard him speak disparagingly of Shelley as a poet, I never heard him refer to a single line or passage of his published writings.’ Hazlitt met Shelley at Leigh Hunt’s, and the two discussed Monarchy and Republicanism until three in the morning.’ See Mary Shelley’s journal of 1817, quoted in Professor Dowden’s _Life_, II. 103.

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256. ‘_Too fiery_,’ _etc._ Cf. ‘You know the fiery quality of the
duke.’ _King Lear_, Act II. Sc. 4.

‘_Beyond the visible_,’ _etc._ Cf. _Paradise Lost_, VII. 22.

‘_All air._’ Cf. ‘He is pure air and fire.’ _Henry V._, Act III.
Sc. 7.

257. ‘_So divinely wrought_,’ _etc._ Cf. John Donne, _An Anatomy of the
World, Second Anniversary_, 245–246.

‘_And dallies_,’ _etc._ _Richard III._, Act I. Sc. 3.

‘_More subtle web_,’ _etc._ _The Faerie Queene_, Book II. Canto
XII. St. 77.

259. ‘_There the antics sit._’ _Richard II._, Act. III. Sc. 2.

‘_Palsied eld._’ _Measure for Measure_, Act III. Sc. 1.

260. _Mr. Shelley died, etc._ When Shelley’s body was cast ashore near
Via Reggio (July 18, 1822), a volume of Keats’s poems was found
in one pocket, and a volume of Sophocles in the other.

_Two out of four poets, patriots, and friends._ The four poets
were presumably Shelley, Keats, Byron and Leigh Hunt.

_Keats died young, etc._ Cf. vol. VI. (_Table Talk_) p. 99.

_A third has since been added, etc._ Byron died at Mesolonghi,
April 19, 1824.

261. _Mrs. Shelley._ Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (1797–1851) married to
Shelley, Dec. 30, 1816.

_Alastor._ Originally published in 1816.

_Translation of the May-day Night._ Published in _The Liberal_.

_Julian and Maddalo._ This poem, first published in _Posthumous
Poems_, had been sent to Leigh Hunt in 1819 for publication by
Ollier.

264. ‘_Made as flax._’ Cf. _Judges_, XV. 14.

267. _The Letter to a Friend in London._ The _Letter to Maria Gisborne_
presumably.

‘_Toys of feathered cupid._’ _Othello_, Act I. Sc. 3.

269. ‘_The sun is warm_,’ _etc._ _Stanzas written in dejection near
Naples._

270. _Mr. Keats’s sounding lines._ _Endymion_, Book I. 232 _et seq._

‘_Weakness and melancholy._’ Cf. _Hamlet_, Act II. Sc. 2.

271. ‘_To elevate and surprise._’ The Duke of Buckingham’s _Rehearsal_,