Chapter XXXIII: Act V: Sc. 1

294. ‘_A thick scarf._’ See _ante_, note to p. 82.

‘_Sweet smelling gums._’ _Paradise Lost_, XI. 327.

‘_Dews of Castalie._’ Cf. Spenser, _The Ruines of Time_, 431.

295. _The Six Acts._ Passed by Lord Sidmouth in 1819 after the
Manchester reform meeting.

QUERIES AND ANSWERS; OR THE RULE OF CONTRARY

Now republished for the first time. See Mr. W. C. Hazlitt’s _Memoirs_, _etc._ (1867), I. xxix.

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297. _Thimble._ Cf. a passage, _ante_, at the foot of p. 39. The
editors have not been able to identify the person here referred
to as ‘Thimble.’

ON KNOWLEDGE OF THE WORLD

This paper and the two following ones were republished in _Sketches and Essays_.

‘_Who shall go about_,’ _etc._ Cf. _The Merchant of Venice_, Act
II. Sc. 9.

298. ‘_Subtle_,’ _etc._ Cf. _Cymbeline_, Act III. Sc. 3.

‘_The children_,’ _etc._ Cf. _S. Luke_ xvi. 8.

299. ‘_To see ourselves_,’ _etc._ Burns, _To a Louse_, St. 8.

‘_No figures_,’ _etc._ Cf. _Julius Cæsar_, Act II. Sc. 1.

‘_His soul_,’ _etc._ Pope, _An Essay on Man_, I. 101–2.

300. ‘_What shall it profit_,’ _etc._ _S. Mark_ viii. 36.

301. _Non ex quovis_, _etc._ Erasmus, _Adagiorum Chiliades_, ‘Munus
aptum.’

‘_No mark_,’ _etc._ _1 Henry IV._, Act III. Sc. 2.

‘_The soul_,’ _etc._ Cf. _Othello_, Act I. Sc. 3.

THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED

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301. _Bub Doddington said_, _etc._ Cf. vol. VI. (_Table-Talk_), p. 100
and note.

_Salus populi_, _etc._ The Twelve Tables, _De Officio Consulis_.

_The upstart_, _etc._ This sentence was omitted in _Sketches and
Essays_.

302. _Mr. Cobbett seemed disappointed_, _etc._ The reference is
probably to _The Weekly Political Register_ for Oct. 29, 1825,
where Cobbett deplores the fact that Baron Maseres (1731–1824),
who had visited him in prison, had left the bulk of his large
property to a ‘little _Protestant parson_.’

‘_His patron’s ghost_,’ _etc._ Cf. Thomson, _The Castle of
Indolence_, I. St. 51.

303. ‘_Never standing upright_,’ _etc._ See Macklin’s _The Man of the
World_, II. 1.

‘_In large heart enclosed._’ Cf. _Paradise Lost_, VII. 486.

304. ‘_The world_,’ _etc._ Thomson, _The Seasons_, Autumn, 233.

‘_The heart of man_,’ _etc._ Cf. _Jeremiah_ xvii. 9.

‘_As the flesh_,’ _etc._ Cf. _Measure for Measure_, Act II. Sc.
1.

‘_Tread_,’ _etc._ Cf. _Hamlet_, Act I. Sc. 3.

305. ‘_If thine eye_,’ _etc._ Cf. _S. Matthew_ v. 29.

‘_The little chapel-bell_,’ _etc._ Hazlitt refers to _The Chapel
Bell_, an early poem of Southey’s (1793), and _The Book of the
Church_, published by Southey in 1824.

_Camille-Desmoulins_, _etc._ Camille Desmoulins (1760–1794),
the well-known Revolutionary pamphleteer; Camille Jordan
(1771–1821), called ‘Jordan Carillon,’ from a speech (July 4,
1797) in which he proposed to restore the use of bells to the
clergy. See Hazlitt’s _Life of Napoleon_, chap. 15.

‘_His own miniature-picture_,’ _etc._ ‘On my own Miniature
Picture’ (1796).

THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED

306. ‘_Give us pause._’ _Hamlet_, Act III. Sc. 1.

‘_Does somewhat smack._’ Cf. _The Merchant of Venice_, Act II.
Sc. 2.

307. _Peter Finnerty._ Peter Finnerty (1766?–1822) at one time on the
staff of _The Morning Chronicle_ with Hazlitt.

308. _J——._ Jeffrey.

‘_In some sort handled._’ Cf. _Henry V._ Act II. Sc. 3.

‘_The high and palmy state._’ Cf. _Hamlet_, Act I. Sc. 1.

309. ‘_Keep this dreadful pudder_,’ _etc._ _King Lear_, Act III. Sc.
2.

‘_When a great wheel_,’ _etc._ Cf. _Ibid._ Act II. Sc. 4.

310. ‘_Will be_,’ _etc._ Dr. Johnson, Preface to Shakespeare (_Works_,
Oxford, 1825, vol. V., p. 118).

ON PUBLIC OPINION

Published (together with the next essay) in _Winterslow_.

311. ‘_Scared_,’ _etc._ Cf. Collins’s Ode, _The Passions_, 20.

312. ‘_The world rings_,’ _etc._ Cowper, _The Task_, III. 129–30.

313. ‘_No man knoweth_,’ _etc._ Cf. _S. John_ iii. 8.

314. ‘_Casting_,’ _etc._ _Il Penseroso_, 160.

315. ‘_Wink_,’ _etc._ Cf. Marston, _Antonio’s Revenge_, Prologue.

‘_Fed fat_,’ _etc._ Cf. _The Merchant of Venice_, Act I. Sc. 3.

ON THE CAUSES OF POPULAR OPINION

Published (with preceding essay) in _Winterslow_.

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316. _The Editors of the Edinburgh Encyclopædia._ _The Edinburgh
Encyclopædia_ (18 vols., 1810–30) was edited by Sir David
Brewster.

‘_Among the rocks_,’ _etc._ Cf. _Michael_, 455–7.

317. ‘_A man of ten thousand._’ Cf. _Hamlet_, Act II. Sc. 2.

318. ‘_Who loved_,’ _etc._ _Othello_, Act V. Sc. 2.

320. _J——._ Jeffrey.

A FAREWELL TO ESSAY-WRITING

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321. ‘_This life is best_,’ _etc._ _Cymbeline_, Act III. Sc. 3.

‘_A friend_,’ _etc._ Cf. Cowper, _Retirement_, 741–2.

‘_Done its spiriting gently._’ Cf. _The Tempest_, Act I. Sc. 2.

‘_The spring_,’ _etc._ Coleridge, _Christabel_, 22.

‘_Fields are dank_,’ _etc._ Milton’s Sonnet (XX.), ‘Lawrence, of
virtuous father virtuous son.’

322. ‘_Peep_,’ _etc._ Cf. _Macbeth_, Act I. Sc. 5.

‘_Open_,’ _etc._ Cowper, _The Task_, VI. 11–12.

323. ‘_Of all the cities_,’ _etc._ Dryden, _Theodore and Honoria_,
1–2.

‘_Which when Honoria view’d_,’ _etc._ _Ibid._ 342–3.

‘_And made th’ insult_,’ _etc._ Dryden, _Sigismonda and
Guiscardo_, 668–9.

_I am much pleased_, _etc._ This sentence (to the end of the
paragraph) was omitted in _Winterslow_.

324. ‘_Fall’n_,’ _etc._ Scott, _Glenfinlas_, last stanza.

_Mr. Gifford once said_, _etc._ See vol. IV. (_The Spirit of the
Age_) p. 307.

_I am rather disappointed_, _etc._ This sentence was omitted in
_Winterslow_.

325. ‘_The admired_,’ _etc._ Cf. _Hamlet_, Act III. Sc. 1.

_What I have here stated_, _etc._ This paragraph and the next two
were omitted in _Winterslow_.

‘_I know not seems._’ _Hamlet_, Act I. Sc. 2.

326. _L——._ Lamb, no doubt.

_Antonio._ Godwin’s _Antonio_ was produced at Drury Lane and
damned Dec. 13, 1800.

‘_Nor can I think_,’ _etc._ Dryden, _The Hind and the Panther_,
I. 315.

327. _Chaucer’s Flower and Leaf._ See vol. V. (_Lectures on the
English Poets_) p. 27 and note.

‘_And ayen_,’ _etc._ _The Flower and the Leaf_, St. 15.

_Mr. and Miss L——._ Charles and Mary Lamb.

328. ‘_And curtain close_,’ _etc._ Cf. Collins’s Ode, _On the Poetical
Character_, 76.

BYRON AND WORDSWORTH

Now republished for the first time. See Mr. W. C. Hazlitt’s _Memoirs, etc._ I. xxix.

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328. _Lord Byron’s haste_, _etc._ See Leigh Hunt’s _Lord Byron and his
Contemporaries_, I. 77.

‘_A cure_,’ _etc._ Cf. _Reflections on the Revolution in France_
(_Select Works_, ed. Payne, II. 164).

329. ‘_Ah! voila_,’ _etc._ _Confessions_, Part I. Liv. VI.

‘_Slow_,’ _etc._ Cf. _As You Like It_, Act II. Sc. 7.

Note. _Ada Reis; a Tale_, by Lady Caroline Lamb (1785–1828),
published in 1823.

ON CANT AND HYPOCRISY

This essay and the next were published with some omissions in _Sketches and Essays_.

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330. ‘_If to do_,’ _etc._ _The Merchant of Venice_, Act I. Sc. 2.

_Curl._ Edmund Curll (1675–1747).

‘_The spirit_,’ _etc._ _S. Matthew_ xxvi. 41.

331. ‘_Most easily_,’ _etc._ Cf. _Hebrews_ xii. 1.

_Video_, _etc._ Ovid, _Metam._, VII. 20–1.

332. ‘_Duenna._’ See Act III. Sc. 5.

‘_A little round_,’ _etc._ _The Castle of Indolence_, I. St. 69.

333. _Lord Shaftesbury._ See _Characteristicks_, An Inquiry concerning
Virtue, or Merit, Part I. Sect. II.

‘_Upon this bank_,’ _etc._ _Macbeth_, Act I. Sc. 7.

335. ‘_Mighty coil_,’ _etc._ Cf. _King Lear_, Act III. Sc. 2.

THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED

337. ‘_Eremites_,’ _etc._ _Paradise Lost_, III. 474–5.

338. ‘_Cant religious_,’ _etc._ See Byron’s Letter to Murray on
Bowles’s Strictures on the Life and Writings of Pope.
_Letters_, etc., ed. Prothero, v. 536.

339. _Mr. Coleridge_, _etc._ Nearly the whole of this passage from
this point to the end was omitted in _Sketches and Essays_. In
the Magazine the essay concludes with the words ‘_Cetera
desunt_.’

_Mr. Liberal Snake._ See Disraeli’s _Vivian Grey_.

POETRY

Now republished for the first time. Some of the essays now first republished from _The Atlas_ are identified as Hazlitt’s in Mr. W. C. Hazlitt’s _Memoirs_, etc. (see I. xxix. and xxx.). The others have been included on the strength of the internal evidence of authorship. A short paper, attributed to Hazlitt by Mr. W. C. Hazlitt (_Memoirs_, I. xxix.), and entitled ‘Richesse de la Langue,’ had appeared in _The Atlas_ for Jan. 25, 1829. It runs as follows:—

‘How should one convey by a single word an expression of face
which having arisen from some strong passion, uneasiness or
emotion, is converted into an habitual character, and remains
without any immediate object to excite it? In the English language
there are above thirty ways of doing this, or else approaching to,
and hovering round the point. As for instance, we may express this
look by the following epithets, more or less pointedly, and with
various inflections of meaning attached to them:—_wild_, _scared_,
_startled_, _haggard_, _harassed_, _hunted_, _nervous_,
_agitated_, _apprehensive_, _terrified_, _dismayed_, _abstracted_,
_stunned_, _panick-struck_, _odd_, _strange_, _wayward_,
_flighty_, _uncouth_, _unaccountable_, _eccentric_, _embarrassed_,
_unsettled_, _uneasy_, _overconscious_, _morbid_, _careworn_,
_blighted_, _scare-crow_, _hang-dog_, _ghastly_, _wilful_,
_dogged_, _staring_, _fierce_, _etc._ All these come tolerably
near the mark, and differ from each other; yet none of them is the
very word that is wanted to express the thing in question, though
we have no doubt there is such a word in the English language, and
that it might be suggested by some one who has a greater command
of its resources. The above remarks may serve to guard the student
of English, whether a foreigner or merely a stranger to his native
tongue, against unmeaning _synonymes_ or monotonous common-place.’

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339. ‘_Daffodils_,’ _etc._ _A Winter’s Tale_, Act IV. Sc. 4.

340. ‘_That fine madness_,’ _etc._ Cf. Drayton, Elegy, _To Henry
Reynolds, Esq._

341. ‘_Cowslips wan_,’ _etc._ _Lycidas_, 147.

_Lowly children_, _etc._ Cf. ‘With all the lowly children of the
shade.’ Thomson, _The Seasons_, Spring, 450.

342. ‘_To elevate and surprise._’ The Duke of Buckingham, _The
Rehearsal_, Act I. Sc. 1.

ENGLISH GRAMMAR

Now republished for the first time. Cf. vol. IV. pp. 231 _et seq._ and 389 _et seq._

‘_Foregone conclusion._’ _Othello_, Act III. Sc. 3.

343. ‘_A man of Ind._’ Cf. _The Tempest_, Act II. Sc. 2.

‘_Wise_,’ _etc._ Cf. _1 Corinthians_ iv. 6.

344. _A standard book._ Lindley Murray’s _English Grammar_, no doubt,
the later editions of which were published by Longmans.

345. _Mr. Fearn._ Hazlitt’s friend. _Anti-Tooke_ was published in
1824. Cf. vol. VI. (_Table-Talk_), 63–4.

‘_Still, small._’ _1 Kings_ xix. 12.

MEMORABILIA OF MR. COLERIDGE

Now republished for the first time. Many of the opinions expressed are referred to by Hazlitt elsewhere.

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346. _Barrow._ Cf. _ante_, p. 266, where Hume is said to have borrowed
from South.

347. ‘_More was meant_,’ _etc._ Cf. _Il Penseroso_, 120.

348. _Dr. Dodd._ William Dodd (1729–1777), executed for forgery in
1777. His _Thoughts in Prison_ appeared in the same year.

PETER PINDAR

Now republished for the first time.

‘_Men_,’ _etc._ _2 Henry IV._, Act III. Sc. 2.

‘_A manly man_,’ _etc._ Chaucer, _The Canterbury Tales_,
Prologue, 167.

349. ‘_Haloo_,’ _etc._ Cf. _2 Henry IV._, Act I. Sc. 2.

_Viotti._ Giovanni Battista Viotti (1753–1824).

‘_Making the worse_,’ _etc._ _Paradise Lost_, II. 113–14.

LOGIC

Now republished for the first time.

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351. ‘_That which is_,’ _etc._ Cf. _Twelfth Night_, Act IV. Sc. 2. The
mistake of ‘Cophetua’ for ‘Gorboduc’ is made elsewhere by
Hazlitt.

332. ‘_Over shoes, over boots._’ Cf. _The Two Gentlemen of Verona_,