NOTES (continued 3)

‘To curl her hair,’ etc. See Congreve’s The Way of the World, Act. II. Sc. 5.

465.

‘Who rant and fret,’ etc. Misquoted from Macbeth, Act V. Sc. 5.

‘Vine-covered hills.’ ‘From the vine-cover’d hills and gay valleys of France.’ From lines ‘written in 1788’ by William Roscoe (1753-1831). The lines were partly parodied by Canning and Frere in The Anti-Jacobin (‘La Sainte Guillotine’): ‘From the blood-bedew’d valleys and mountains of France.’ Cf. vol. VI. p. 189 (Table Talk).

‘And murmur,’ etc. Landor, Gebir, Book I.

466.

‘Sigh his soul,’ etc. Cf. ‘And sighed his soul towards the Grecian tents.’ The Merchant of Venice, Act V. Sc. 1.

467.

‘A brother of the groves.’ Hazlitt perhaps recalls Wordsworth’s line, ‘A brother of the dancing leaves’ (The Green Linnet, 34). As originally 547published (Poems, 1807, II. 81), the line ran, ‘A Brother of the Leaves he seems,’ which is still nearer to Hazlitt’s phrase.

468.

Crockery and Peter Pastoral. In Exit by Mistake and Teazing Made Easy respectively.

‘His tears,’ etc. Cf. ‘The tears which came to Matthew’s eyes Were tears of light, the oil of gladness.’

Wordsworth, Matthew, as published in Lyrical Ballads, 1800, vol. II. p. 121.

‘Sic transit,’ etc. Thomas à Kempis, De Imitatione Christi, I. 3, 6.

469.

‘Stands on end,’ etc. Misquoted from Macbeth, Act V. Sc. 5.

‘Let those laugh,’ etc. Cf. ‘Let those love now, who never lov’d before; Let those who always lov’d, now love the more.’ Parnell, The Vigil of Venus.

470.

‘Compunctious visitings.’ Macbeth, Act I. Sc, 5.

Little Pickle. In The Spoilt Child.

471.

The great cat, Rodilardus. In Rabelais. See Pantagruel, IV. 67.

‘Dressed in a little brief authority,’ etc. Measure for Measure, Act II. Sc. 2.

472.

‘You take my house,’ etc. The Merchant of Venice, Act IV. Sc. 1.

‘Cleansed,’ etc. Macbeth, Act V. Sc. 3.

‘Flesh is heir to.’ Hamlet, Act III. Sc. 1.

473.

‘Not a jot,’ etc. Othello, Act III. Sc. 3.

‘But never more,’ etc. Ibid. Act II. Sc. 3.

‘Never so sure,’ etc. Pope, Moral Essays, II. 51-2.

‘In medio,’ etc. Ovid, Metamorphoses, II. 137.

They hiss the Beggar’s Opera in America. The Times of Dec. 10, 1817, quotes from New York papers dated Oct. 27 an account of the refusal of a New York audience to hear The Beggar’s Opera.

474.

The Vampyre. By James Robinson Planché (1796-1880), adapted from ‘Le Vampire.’

The celebrated story. ‘The Vampyre,’ by John William Polidori (1795-1821), was published in 1819. Byron had intended to write a story on the same subject. See Letters and Journals, ed. Prothero, III. 446-453, and IV. 286 and 296.

‘See how the moon,’ etc. The Merchant of Venice, Act V. Sc. 1.

475.

‘The Diamond Ring.’ Adapted by Theodore Hook from He would be a Soldier (1786), and produced Aug. 12, 1820.

476.

‘Misery,’ etc. As You Like It, Act II. Sc. 1.

‘A load,’ etc. Henry VIII., Act III. Sc. 2.

‘Palsied eld.’ Measure for Measure, Act III. Sc. 1.

477.

‘At last he rose,’ etc. Lycidas, 192-3.

‘As broad,’ etc. Misquoted from Macbeth, Act III. Sc. 4.

‘In act,’ etc. Othello, Act I. Sc. 1.

‘The immediate jewel,’ etc. Ibid., Act III. Sc. 3.

‘Solid pudding,’ etc. Pope, The Dunciad, I. 54.

‘Tenth,’ etc. Pope, Essay on Man, I. 246.

The Calendar of Nature. Hazlitt seems to refer to Leigh Hunt’s The Months, originally published in the Literary Pocket Book, 1819-20, and there described as a ‘Calendar of the Seasons.’

‘Bound our brows withal.’ ‘To grace thy brows withal.’ Richard III., Act V. Sc. 5.

548In January, etc. It will be noticed that Hazlitt does not give an accurate account of the dates and subjects of his articles.

478.

‘Being at Illminster,’ etc. Possibly on a visit to John Hunt, who had retired to the neighbourhood of Taunton. Mr. W. C. Hazlitt mentions (Memoirs, I. xviii.) a report that Hazlitt contributed for a short time to the Taunton Courier.

Note. ‘Or mouth,’ etc. Endymion, II. 405-6.

Note. ‘Beautified.’ Hamlet, Act II. Sc. 2.

Note. ‘Oh Scotland,’ etc. Cf. ‘O Jephthah, judge of Israel,’ etc. Hamlet, Act II. Sc. 2.

479.

An able article written for us. No. X., published in the October (not September) number.

No Table-Talk. The Table-Talks were of course the work of Hazlitt himself.

The Lion’s Head. The name given to two or three editorial paragraphs prefixed to The London Magazine. In the number for November, 1820, the editor announced for the next number ‘a chef d’œuvre of a Table Talk—the best yet, we think.’ This was No. V. ‘On the Pleasure of Painting.’

‘Has not left her peer.’ Lycidas, 9.

‘Constrain his genius,’ etc. Cf. ‘That Love will not submit to be controlled by mastery.’ Wordsworth, The Excursion, VI. 163-4.

‘With mighty wings,’ etc. Paradise Lost, I. 20-22.

480.

Encyclopædia Metropolitana. The publication of this work began in 1817. Coleridge drew up the scheme, and contributed the ‘Preliminary Treatise on Method.’

Note. Hazlitt refers to The Fancy: a Selection from the Poetical Remains of the late Peter Corcoran, of Gray’s Inn, Student at Law, a ‘jeu d’esprit’ by John Hamilton Reynolds, reviewed in The London Magazine, July 1820.

‘The up-turned eyes,’ etc. Romeo and Juliet, Act II. Sc. 2.

481.

Barnaby Brittle. Founded on Moliere’s George Dandin, and produced at Covent Garden in 1791.

Disjecta membra poetæ. ‘Disjecti membra poëtæ.’ Horace, Satires, I. 4-62.

‘Outlasts a thousand storms,’ etc. Beaumont and Fletcher’s Philaster, Act V. Sc. 3.

482.

Paulo majora canamus. Virgil, Eclogues, IV. 1.

‘The lily drooping,’ etc. Cf. ‘Than is the lilie upon his stalke grene.’ The Canterbury Tales, The Knighte’s Tale, 1036.

‘The flowers,’ etc. A Winter’s Tale, Act IV. Sc. 4.

Note. See Boswell’s Life of Johnson, ed. G. B. Hill, II. 409 n.

483.

Macready’s Zanga. Macready first appeared as Zanga in Young’s Revenge on October 30, 1820.

‘A wife,’ etc. The Revenge, Act IV. Sc. 1.

Wallace. By C. E. Walker, November 14, 1820.

484.

The Deaf Lover. By Frederick Pilon (1750-1788), originally produced in 1780 and revived at Covent Garden in 1819.

‘But in Adam’s ear,’ etc. Paradise Lost, VIII. 1-2.

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