The collected works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 12 (of 12)

VOL. I.

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3. The miser ‘robs himself,’ etc. Cf. Joseph Andrews, Book IV. chap. vii.

 

23. ‘Because on earth,’ etc. See vol. X., note to p. 63.

 

52. ‘A mistress,’ etc. Goldsmith, The Traveller, 152.

 

57. ‘Pure,’ etc. Dryden, Persius, Sat. II. l. 133.

 

68. ‘Two happy things,’ etc. The Tatler (No. 40) quotes the epigram thus:

‘In marriage are two happy things allowed,

A wife in wedding-sheets, and in a shroud.

How can a marriage state then be accursed,

Since the last day’s as happy as the first?’

 

85. ‘Painting was jealous,’ etc. Vasari records a similar saying (Lives, ed. Blashfield and Hopkins, 1897, vol. IV. p. 218).

 

105. ‘In that first garden,’ etc. Cf. ‘In that first garden of our simpleness.’ Daniel, Hymen’s Triumph, I. 1.

 

112. ‘And visions,’ etc. This couplet, a favourite quotation of Hazlitt’s, occurs in a letter from Gray to Horace Walpole (Letters, ed. Tovey, I. 7–8). The lines are apparently a translation (by Gray) of Virgil, Æneid, VI. 282–84.

 

135. ‘Heaves no sigh,’ etc. See vol. V., note to p. 30.

 

139. The new Patent Blacking. Cf. Moore’s Parody of a Celebrated Letter, 94–6.

 

391. ‘The word,’ etc. Cf. 2 Henry IV., III. 2.

 

292. ‘Go, go,’ etc. Cf. Wycherley, The Plain Dealer, v. I.

 

427. Turnspit of the King’s kitchen. See vol. XII. (Fugitive Writings), p. 291 and note.

VOL. II.

 

310. ‘Both living and loving.’ Lamb’s version of Thekla’s Song in The Piccolomini. See Coleridge’s Poetical Works, ed. J. D. Campbell, p. 648.

 

311. ‘Winged wound.’ Dryden, The Hind and the Panther, I. 6.

 

347. ‘Who had been beguiled,’ etc. Leigh Hunt, The Story of Rimini, Canto III.

 

363. ‘Throws a cruel sunshine on a fool.’ Armstrong, The Art of Preserving Health, Book IV.

 

396. The man who bought Punch. See vol. XII. p. 353.

 

38. The Room over the way. See Cobbett’s Weekly Political Register, Sept. 1817 (Selections, etc., v. 259).

 

41. St. Peter is well at Rome. Don Quixote, Part II. Book III. chap, xli., and elsewhere.

 

45. ‘Lest the courtiers,’ etc. The Beggar’s Opera, II. 2.

 

60. ‘One note day and night.’ Burke, Regicide Peace (Select Works, ed. Payne, p. 51).

 

63. ‘Which fear,’ etc. Cowper, The Task, II. 325.

 

166. ‘In Philharmonia’s undivided dale.’ Cf. ‘O’er peaceful Freedom’s undivided dale.’ Coleridge, Monody on the Death of Chatterton, 140.

 

171. ‘Unslacked of motion.’ See vol. IV. p. 42 and note.

 

174. ‘Of whatsoever race,’ etc. Cf. Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, I. 100–103.

 

239. ‘Meek mouths ruminant.’ Cf. ‘With ruminant meek mouths.’ Leigh Hunt, The Story of Rimini, Canto II.

 

243. The Essay on ‘The Effects of War and Taxes,’ appeared also in The New Scots Magazine for Oct. 1818.

 

259. ‘Soul-killing lies,’ etc. Lamb, John Woodvil, Act II.

 

268. ‘Certain so wroth,’ etc. Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, The Prologue, 451–2.

 

273. ‘People of the nicest imaginations,’ etc. Cf. Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects.

 

284. ‘Resemble the flies of a summer.’ Cf. ‘Men would become little better than the flies of a summer.’ Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (Select Works, ed. Payne, II. 112).

 

328. ‘A new creation,’ etc. Goldsmith, The Traveller, 296.

VOL. IV.

 

17. ‘Sacro,’ etc. Quoted in the notes to Junius. See notes to Letter XXXVI.

 

24. To elevate and surprise. The Duke of Buckingham’s The Rehearsal, I. 1.

 

44. ‘Your very nice people,’ etc. See ante, note to vol. III. p. 273.

 

147. ‘Where he picks clean teeth.’ Cowper, The Task, II. 627.

 

217. ‘When he saw,’ etc. Coleridge, Remorse, Act IV. Sc. 2.

 

220. Pingo in eternitatem. A saying attributed to Zeuxis. See Sir Joshua Reynolds’s Discourses, No. III.

 

311. ‘Sithence no fairy lights,’ etc. See vol. XI. pp. 224, 268, and notes.

VOL. V.

 

9. ‘And visions,’ etc. See ante, note to vol. I. p. 112.

 

10. ‘Obscurity,’ etc. See vol. XI. p. 224 and note.

 

120. ‘And that green wreath,’ etc. Southey, Carmen Nuptiale, Proem, St. 9.

 

215. ‘A foot,’ etc. Cf. Donne, The Storm, 3–4.

 

277. Friar Onion. See Boccaccio, The Decameron, Sixth Day, Novel X.

 

280. ‘That, like a trumpet,’ etc. Cf. Leigh Hunt, The Story of Rimini, Canto III.

 

345. ‘The last of those fair clouds,’ etc. Cf. Wordsworth, The Excursion, VII. 1014–16.

 

372. For the note on Lord Dorset read Charles Sackville (1638–1706), sixth Earl of Dorset, author of ‘To all you ladies now on land,’ included with other songs in Hazlitt’s Select British Poets.

 

23. ‘Those suns and skies so pure.’ Warton, Sonnet (IX.) to the River Lodon.

 

93. ‘The fair variety of things.’ Akenside, Pleasures of the Imagination, I. 78.

 

94. A neighbouring Baronet. See vol. XII., note to p. 202.

 

96. ‘Like life and death,’ etc. Cf. Lamb., John Woodvil, Act II.

 

106. ‘The beautiful is vanished,’ etc. Coleridge, The Death of Wallenstein, v. I.

 

113. ‘Like a faint shadow,’ etc. Cf. The Faerie Queene, II. vii. 29.

 

152. Note. ‘The worse, the second fall of man.’ Cf. Windham, Speeches, I. 311 (March 13, 1797).

 

156. ‘To warn and scare.’ Rev. Sneyd Davies, To the Honourable and Reverend F. C. (Dodsley, Collection of Poems, VI. 138).

 

189. ‘The vine-covered hills,’ etc. William Roscoe, Lines written in 1788, parodied in The Anti-Jacobin.

 

211. ‘Free from the Sirian star,’ etc. Beaumont and Fletcher, Philaster, Act v. Sc. 3.

 

218. ‘It was out of all plumb,’ etc. Tristram Shandy, Book III. chap. xii.

 

225. ‘Stud of night-mares.’ Cf. ‘I confess an occasional night-mare; but I do not, as in early youth, keep a stud of them.’ Lamb, Essays of Elia (Witches, and other Night-Fears).

 

243. ‘Tall, opaque words.’ Hazlitt was perhaps quoting from himself. See vol. VIII. p. 257.

 

259. ‘To angels ’twas most like.’ The Flower and the Leaf, St. 19.

 

308. ‘Wild wit,’ etc. Gray, Ode, On a Distant Prospect of Eton College.

 

317. ‘As much again to govern it.’ This line is not Butler’s, but Pope’s. See An Essay on Criticism, 80–81:

‘There are whom heav’n has blest with store of wit,

Yet want as much again to manage it.’

 

The couplet was changed in the 4to edition of 1743.

VOL. VII.

 

189. ‘Subtilised savages.’ ‘Nor as yet have we subtilised ourselves into savages.’ Burke, Refections on the Revolution in France (Select Works, ed. Payne, II. 101).

 

273. ‘As a saving of cheese-parings,’ etc. See Windham’s Speeches, I. 311 (March 13, 1797).

 

282. ‘As if they thrilled,’ etc. The Faerie Queene, II. xii. 78.

VOL. VIII.

 

93. ‘Not one of the angles,’ etc. Tristram Shandy, Book III. chap. xii.

 

164. ‘Shines like Hesperus,’ etc. The Faerie Queene, I. vii. 30.

 

371. ‘A singing face.’ Bombastes Furioso, Sc. I.

 

437. ‘Such were the joys,’ etc. Bickerstaffe, Love in a Village, II. 1.

VOL. IX.

 

64. ‘Play at bowls,’ etc. Hazlitt elsewhere quotes these words as from ‘an old song.’

 

106. ‘To dream and be an Emperour.’ Cf. ‘I am like a man that dreamt he was an Emperour.’ Fletcher, The Spanish Curate, II. 2.

 

245. ‘Perceive a fury,’ etc. Cf. Othello, IV. 2.

 

292. ‘Retire, the world shut out,’ etc. Young, Night Thoughts (IX.).

 

429. The Gods, ‘the children of Homer.’ Lucien Buonaparte, Charlemagne. See vol XI. (Fugitive Writings), p. 232.

VOL. X.

 

187. ‘Empurpling all the ground.’ Cf. Lycidas, 141.

 

208. ‘Relegated to obscure cloisters,’ etc. Cf. Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (Select Works, ed. Payne, II. 121).

 

260. ‘Yet his infelicity,’ etc. Cf. Webster, The Duchess of Malfy, Act IV. Sc. 2.

 

314. The American Farmer’s Letters. Letters from an American Farmer, by Hector St. John Crevecœur (1731–1813), published 1794.

 

378. ‘Hold our hands,’ etc. Cf. Dryden, Alexander’s Feast, 72.

VOL. XI.

 

277. ‘I take her body,’ etc. These lines are not Suckling’s, but from a song by Congreve, beginning ‘Tell me no more I am deceived.’

 

336. ‘Loud as a trumpet,’ etc. Dryden, Palamon and Arcite, III. 85.

 

338. ‘Like importunate Guinea fowls,’ etc. Burke’s Regicide Peace (ed. Payne, p. 51).

 

427 (and p. 501). ‘Hymns its good god,’ etc. Cf. Thomson, The Castle of Indolence, I. x.

 

488. ‘Each other’s beams to share,’ Collins, Ode, The Manners, 56.

The following printer’s errors may be noted:—

Vol. I. p. 436 (note to p. 142). Read The Beggar’s Opera, Act I. Sc. 1.

Vol. II. p. 440 (note to p. 391). For Huckman read Hackman.

Vol. V. p. 391 (note to p. 97). Read The Spirit of the Age, vol. IV., etc.

Vol. V. p. 406 (note to p. 254). Read Here be woods.

Vol. V. p. 410 (note to p. 318). The words ‘The Countess ... in 1690’ belong to the note above.

Vol. VI. p. 519 (note to p. 435). For 1870 read 1780.

Vol. IX. p. 458 (note to p. 247). Read Sir Martin Archer Shee.

Vol. IX. p. 463 (note to p. 317). For Mallard read Mallord.