Part II

., Chap. IX.

141. _Archbishop Herring._ Thomas Herring (1693–1757), Archbishop of Canterbury. _Letters to William Duncombe, Esq._, 1728–1757 (1777), Letter XII., Sept. 11, 1739.

_Auld Robin Gray ... Lady Ann Bothwell’s lament._ Lady Anne Barnard (1750–1825) did not acknowledge her authorship of ‘Auld Robin Gray’ (to Sir Walter Scott) until 1823.

142. _O waly, waly._ This ballad was first published in Allan Ramsay’s _Tea Table Miscellany_, 1724.

[I. 8. ‘Sae my true love did lichtlie me.’

II. 5–8. ‘O wherefore should I busk my heid, Or wherefore should I kame my hair? For my true love has me forsook, And says he’ll never lo’e me mair.’

III. 2, 8. ‘The sheets sall ne’er be press’d by me For of my life I am wearie.’

V. 7–8. ‘And I mysel’ were dead and gane, And the green grass growing over me!‘] William Allingham’s _Ballad Book_, p. 41.

_The Braes of Yarrow._ By William Hamilton, of Bangour (1704–1754).

143. _Turner’s History of England._ Sharon Turner (1768–1847), _History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of Elizabeth_ (1814–1823). The story is a pretty one, but the Eastern lady was not the mother of the Cardinal.

_J. H. Reynolds._ John Hamilton Reynolds (1796–1852).

VIII. ON THE LIVING POETS

143. _No more talk where God or angel guest._ _Paradise Lost_, IX. 1–3.

146. _The Darwins, the Hayleys, the Sewards._ Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802), grandfather of Charles Darwin, and author of _The Loves of the Plants_ (1789), a poem parodied by Frere in _The Anti-Jacobin_ as ‘The Loves of the Triangles.’ William Hayley (1745–1820), who wrote _The Triumphs of Temper_ and a _Life of Cowper_. Anna Seward (1747–1809), the ‘Swan of Lichfield.’ She wrote poetical novels, sonnets and a life of Dr. Darwin.

_Face-making._ _Hamlet_, III. 2.

_Mrs. Inchbald._ Elizabeth Inchbald (1753–1821), novelist, dramatist and actress.

_Thank the Gods._ Cf. _As You Like It_, III. 3.

_Mrs. Leicester’s School._ Ten narratives, seven by Mary, three by Charles, Lamb (1807).

_The next three volumes of the Tales of My Landlord._ _The Heart of Midlothian_ (second series of the _Tales_) was published in 1818, and the third series, consisting of _The Bride of Lammermoor_ and _A Legend of Montrose_, in 1819.

147. _Mrs. Barbauld._ Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743–1825), daughter of the Rev. John Aitken, D.D., joint-author, with her brother John Aitken, of _Evenings at Home_.

_Mrs. Hannah More_ (1745–1833). Her verses and sacred dramas were published in the first half of her life: she gradually retired from London society, and this may have led to Hazlitt’s doubtful remark as to her being still in life.

147. _Miss Baillie._ Joanna Baillie (1762–1851). _Count Basil_ is one of her _Plays of the Passions_ (1798–1802), and is concerned with the ‘passion’ of love. _De Montfort_ was acted at Drury Lane in 1800 by Mrs. Siddons and Kemble.

_Remorse, Bertram, and lastly Fazio._ Coleridge’s _Remorse_ (1813), for twenty nights at Drury Lane. C. R. Maturin’s _Bertram_ (1816), successful at Drury lane. Dean Milman’s _Fazio_ (1815), acted at Bath and then at Covent Garden.

_A man of no mark._ _1 King Henry IV._, III. 2.

_Make mouths_ [in them]. _Hamlet_, IV. 3.

_Mr. Rogers’s Pleasures of Memory._ Published in 1792.

_The Election._ Genest says it was performed for the third time on June 10, 1817.

148. _The Della Cruscan._ The sentimental and affected style, initiated in 1785 by some English residents at Florence, and extinguished by Gifford’s satire in the _Baviad_ (1794), and _Maeviad_ (1796).

_To show that power of love_

‘He knows who gave that love sublime, And gave that strength of feeling great Above all human estimate.’ Wordsworth’s _Fidelity_.

149. _Campbell’s Pleasures of Hope._ Published in 1799, _Gertrude of Wyoming_ in 1809.

_Some hamlet shade._ _Pleasures of Hope_, I. 309–10.

_Curiosa infelicitas._ ‘Curiosa felicitas Horatii.’ _Petronius Arbiter_, § 118.

_Of outward show elaborate._ _Paradise Lost_, VIII. 538.

_Tutus nimium, timidusque procellarum._ Horace, _De Arte Poet._, 128.

150. _Like morning brought by night._ _Gertrude of Wyoming_, I. xiii.

_Like Angels’ visits._ _Pleasures of Hope_,