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143. ‘_By their so potent art._’ Cf. _The Tempest_, Act V. Sc. 1.

144. ‘_We know_,’ _etc._ _Hamlet_, Act IV. Sc. 5.

‘_Within that lowest deep_,’ _etc._ Cf. _Paradise Lost_, IV.
76–77.

146. _I never knew but one man_, _etc._ ? Jeffrey.

‘_With wine_,’ _etc._ Cf. Milton’s Sonnet, _Lawrence, of virtuous
father_, etc.

149. ‘_Pure in the last recesses of the mind._’ Dryden, _The Second
Satire of Persius_, 133.

_Mr. Thomas Wedgwood._ Thomas Wedgwood (1771–1805), Coleridge’s
friend.

‘_We can hold_,’ _etc._ _Richard II._, Act I. Sc. 3.

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150. ‘_Life is a pure flame_,’ _etc._ Sir T. Browne, _Hydriotaphia_,
chap. V.

_My brother’s._ John Hazlitt (1767–1837), the miniature-painter.
See Mr. W. C. Hazlitt’s _Four Generations of a Literary
Family_, I. 210–18.

151. ‘_The vast_,’ _etc._ Cf. ‘The wide, the unbounded prospect, lies
before me.’ Addison, _Cato_, Act V. Sc. 1.

‘_Bear a charmed life._’ _Macbeth_, Act V. Sc. 8.

‘_Bidding_,’ _etc._ Collins’s Ode, _The Passions_, 32.

‘_This sensible_,’ _etc._ _Measure for Measure_, Act III. Sc. 1.

152. ‘_Wine of life_,’ _etc._ Cf. _Macbeth_, Act II. Sc. 3.

‘_As in a glass darkly._’ Cf. _1 Corinthians_ xiii. 12.

‘_So am not I._’ Sterne, _Tristram Shandy_, vol. V. chap. vii.

Note. _The Art of War_ (1795) by Joseph Fawcett (d. 1804), an
early friend of Hazlitt’s. See vol. VI. (_Table-Talk_), 224–5
and Mr. W. C. Hazlitt’s _Memoirs, etc._, I. 75–79.

153. ‘_The feast of reason_,’ _etc._ Pope, _Imitations of Horace_,
Sat. I. 128.

‘_Brave sublunary things._’ Cf. ‘Those brave translunary things.’
Michael Drayton, _To Henry Reynolds_.

‘_The stockdove_,’ _etc._ Cf. Thomson, _The Castle of Indolence_,
I. St. 4.

Note. ‘_Had it not been_,’ _etc._ _Works_, II. 254.

Note. _She says of Richardson._ See _Works_, II. 285 _et seq._
and 222.

Note. _Monstrum ingens biforme._ Cf. _Æneid_, III. 658.

Note. ‘_His spirits_,’ _etc._ _Works_, II. 283.

156. ‘_The purple light of love._’ Gray, _The Progress of Poesy_, 41.

‘_The Raphael grace_,’ _etc._ Cf. ‘Match Raphael’s grace with thy
loved Guido’s air. ‘Pope, _Moral Essays_, VIII. 36.

‘_Gain new vigour_,’ _etc._ Cowper, _Charity_, 104.

157. ‘_Beguile_,’ _etc._ Cf. ‘Lose and neglect the creeping hours of
time.’ _As You Like It_, Act II. Sc. 7.

158. ‘_Robbers._’ Schiller’s play, produced in 1782.

‘_From the Dungeon_,’ _etc._ Coleridge, Sonnet, ‘To the Author of
_The Robbers_.’

_Don Carlos._ Schiller’s play (1787).

158. ‘_That time is past_,’ _etc._ Cf. Wordsworth, _Lines composed a
few miles above Tintern Abbey_, 83–85.

159. ‘_Even from the tomb_,’ _etc._ Gray’s _Elegy_, 91–92.

‘_All the life_,’ _etc._ Cf. ‘For a’ the life of life is dead.’
Burns, _Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn_, st. 6.

‘_From the last dregs_,’ _etc._ Cf. Dryden, _Aurengzebe_, Act IV.
Sc. 1.

160. ‘_Treason domestic_,’ _etc._ Cf. _Macbeth_, Act III. Sc. 2.

‘_Reverbs its own hollowness._’ Cf. _King Lear_, Act I. Sc. 1.

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161. Note. See vol. VIII. (_Lectures on the Comic Writers_), p. 22 and
note.

162. ‘_Has just come_,’ _etc._ Cf. _Richard III._, Act I. Sc. 1.

164. _A Manuscript of Cicero’s._ Hazlitt probably refers to Cardinal
Angelo Mai’s (1782–1854) discoveries.

_A Noble Lord._ The Marquis of Blandford, who bought Valdarfer’s
edition of Boccaccio for £2260 at the Roxburgh sale in 1812.
Cf. _ante_, p. 43.

_Mr. Thomas Taylor._ Thomas Taylor (1758–1835), the Platonist.
The ‘old Duke of Norfolk’ (Bernard Edward, 12th Duke,
1765–1842) was his patron, and locked up nearly the whole of
Taylor’s edition of _Plato_ (5 vols., 1804) in his library.

_Ireland’s celebrated forgery._ The main forgery, _Vortigern_, by
William Henry Ireland, was produced at Drury Lane on April 2,
1796.

Note. _Mr. G. D.’s chambers._ Lamb’s friend George Dyer
(1755–1841) lived in Clifford’s Inn from 1792. _His History of
the University and Colleges of Cambridge, etc._ was published
in 2 vols. in 1814. In reference to the number of corrections
in this work, Lamb spoke of Dyer as ‘Cancellarius Magnus.’

Note. _Another friend of mine_, _etc._ Leigh Hunt. See his essay
‘Jack Abbot’s Breakfast’ reprinted in _Men, Women, and Books_
(1847).

166. ‘_Proud as when_,’ _etc._ Cf. _Troilus and Cressida_, Act I. Sc.
3.

167. ‘_Like sunken wreck_,’ _etc._ Cf. _Henry V._, Act I. Sc. 2.

168. ‘_Full of wise_ σατυς,’ _etc._ Cf. _As You Like It_, Act II. Sc.
7.

‘_An insolent piece of paper._’ ‘A piece of arrogant paper.’
Massinger, _A New Way to pay Old Debts_, Act IV. Sc. 3.

‘_Somewhat musty._’ Cf. ‘Something musty.’ _Hamlet_, Act III. Sc.
2.

_Longinus complains_, _etc_. See Longinus, _On the Sublime_, IX.

169. _Irving’s orations._ Cf. vol. IV. (_The Spirit of the Age_), p.
228.

_The Jew’s letters._ Dr. Philip le Fanu published in 1777 a
translation of the Abbé Guenée’s _Lettres de certaines Juives à
M. Voltaire_.

_That Van Diemen’s Land of letters._ These words were omitted in
_Sketches and Essays_.

_Flocci-nauci_, _etc._ Shenstone, Letter xxi. 1741 (_Works_,
1791, III. 49).

‘_Flames in the forehead_,’ _etc._ _Lycidas_, 171.

170. _Mr. Godwin composed an Essay_, _etc._ Hazlitt perhaps refers to
the letter added by ‘Edward Baldwin’ to his own English
Grammar. See vol. VI. p. 388.

Note. _A certain poet._ This note was omitted in _Sketches and
Essays_.

171. ‘_By Heavens_,’ _etc._ Wordsworth Sonnet, _The world is too much
with us_.

171. ‘_Trampled_,’ _etc._ Cf. Burke, _Reflections on the Revolution in
France_ (_Select Works_, ed. Payne, II. 93).

‘_Kept like an apple_,’ _etc._ Cf. _Hamlet_, Act IV. Sc. 2.

172. Note. ‘_Speak evil of dignities._’ _2 Peter_ ii. 10.

Note. _The Queens matrimonial-ladder._ One of William Hone’s
squibs, published in 1820, and illustrated with fourteen cuts
by Cruikshank.

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174. ‘_Discourse of reason_,’ _etc._ Loosely quoted from _Hamlet_. Cf.