70. Cf. ‘In their trinal triplicities on bye.’ The Faerie Queene, Book I. Canto I. St. 38.

71. Cf. ‘Their lips were four red roses on a stalk.’ Richard III., Act IV. Sc. 3.

72. A Winter’s Tale, Act IV. Sc. 4.

73. L’Allegro, 14 et seq.

74. By Richard Lalor Shell.

75. Dr. John Stoddart, who had left The Times early in 1817, and started The Day and New Times, afterwards known as The New Times.

76. Founded on Bickerstaffe’s Love in the City, and first produced 1781.

77. Comus, 476-7.

78. Hamlet, Act III. Sc. 2.

79. ‘Blasted with excess of light.’ Gray, The Progress of Poesy, III. 2, 7.

80. Cowper, The Task, IV. 486.

81. Pope, Moral Essays, II. 114.

82. The Taming of the Shrew, Induction, Sc. 2.

83. Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act V. Sc. 2.

84. L’Allegro, 147.

85. As You Like It, Act III. Sc. 2.

86. Pope, Moral Essays, III., 309-10.

87. Cf. the essay ‘Of persons one would wish to have seen.’

88. Horace, Ars Poetica, 343.

89. Hazlitt has omitted the number. The reference is perhaps to No. 42.

90. Hamlet, Act III. Sc. 2.

91. Paradise Lost, III. 444-6.

92. Christopher Anstey’s (1724-1805) New Bath Guide (1766).

93. Addison, The Campaign, 292.

94. Act III. Sc. 3.

95. Ibid.

96. Paradise Lost, IX. 664-678.

97. Act III. Sc. 3.

98. Hamlet, Act III. Sc. 4.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

  1. Pp. 28 & 159, changed “Medecin malgrè lui” to “Médecin malgré lui”.
  2. P. 135, changed “protegée” to “protégé”.
  3. P. 143, changed “elégantes” to “élégantes”.
  4. P. 151, changed “haute litérature” to “haute littérature”.
  5. P. 166, changed “comedie larmoyante” to “comédie larmoyante”.
  6. Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling.
  7. Retained anachronistic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed.
  8. Footnotes have been re-indexed using numbers and collected together at the end of the last chapter.