65. This, we are sorry to say, relates only to the three first volumes. The fourth is in a very mixed style indeed. It looks as if the author was tired, and got somebody to help him.
66. See Mackenzie’s Life of Home, the author of Douglas.
67. The Duke of Wellington, it is said, cannot enter into the merits of Raphael, but he admires ‘the spirit and fire of Tintoret.’ I do not wonder at this bias. A sentiment, probably, never dawned upon his Grace’s mind; but he may be supposed to relish the dashing execution and hit or miss manner of the Venetian artist. Oh, Raphael! well is it that it was one who did not understand thee that blundered upon the destruction of humanity!
68. Hazlitt refers to what The Examiner calls the ‘regal raree-show’ in the Parks at the beginning of August 1814. A sham fight on the Serpentine was one of the features.
69. Paradise Lost, III. 550.
70. Wordsworth himself says (Hart-Leap Well) ‘The moving accident is not my trade.’
71. Lycidas, 161.
72. Wordsworth’s Ode, Intimations of Immortality, 206–7.
73. See ante, note to p. 48.
74. This opening paragraph is certainly very like Hazlitt. Cf. the review by anticipation of Coleridge’s Lay Sermon in Political Essays, vol. III. pp. 138–142.
75. Query, a misprint for ‘delicacy.’
76. Ben Jonson’s Underwoods, XXX., ‘An Epistle to Sir Edward Sackville. A favourite quotation of Hazlitt’s.
77. The Faerie Queene, III. VII. 7.
78. Haydon.
79. Hamlet, Act III. Sc. 2.
80. Leigh Hunt, The Story of Rimini, III. 32.
81. See vol. I. p. 218–221.
82. Acts xix. 28.
83. To the line ‘And to the ragged infant threaten war,’ Hazlitt appends the footnote, ‘This is a pleasing line; because the unconsciousness to the mischief in the child is a playful relief to the mind, and the picturesqueness of the imagery gives it double point and naiveté.’
84. To the line ‘See them beneath the dog-stars raging heat,’ Hazlitt has a footnote: ‘This seems almost a parody on the lines in Shakespeare. “Not all these, laid in bed majestical,” etc. [Henry V., Act IV. Sc. 1, ll. 284–297.] Who shall decide where two such authorities disagree!’
85. 1 Henry IV., Act III. Sc. 1.
86. To the line ‘Or wipes the tear that stagnates in his eyes,’ Hazlitt adds a footnote: ‘And the motion unsettles a tear.—Wordsworth.’ [The Convict, (Lyrical Ballads) l. 42.]
87. The Parish Register, I. 107–10.
88. Ibid. I. 230–1.
89. The Parish Register, I. 301–4.
90. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act IV. Sc. 1.
91. The Parish Register, I. 454–7.
92. Ibid. II. 319–20.
93. Dryden, Prologue to The Tempest, 20.