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_There was magic._ _Othello_, III. 4.

349. _Schlegel somewhere compares._ Cf. _Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature_ (Bohn, 1846) p. 407.

_So withered._ _Macbeth_, I. 3.

_The description of Belphœbe._ _The Faerie Queene_, II. iii. 21 _et seq._

350. _All plumed like estriches._ Cf. _1 King Henry IV._ IV. 1.

352. _Antres vast._ _Othello_, I. 3.

_Orlando ... Rogero._ In Ariosto’s _Orlando Furioso_.

353. _New-lighted._ _Hamlet_, III. 4.

_The evidence of things unseen._ _Hebrews_, xi. 1.

_Broods over the immense_ [vast] _abyss_. _Paradise Lost_, I. 21.

_The ignorant present time._ _Macbeth_, I. 5.

355. _See o’er the stage._ Thomson’s _Winter_, ll. 646–8.

_The Orphan._ By Otway, 1680.

_Arabian trees._ _Othello_, V. 2.

_That sacred pity._ _As You Like It_, II. 7.

_Miss O’Neill._ Eliza O’Neill (1791–1872).

356. _Hog hath lost his Pearl._ 1613.

_Addison’s Cato._ 1713.

_Dennis’s Criticism._ John Dennis’s (1657–1734) _Remarks on Cato_, 1713.

_Don Sebastian._ 1690.

_The mask of Arthur and Emmeline._ _King Arthur, or the British Worthy_ 1691, a Dramatic Opera with music by Purcell.

357. _Alexander the Great ... Lee._ _The Rival Queens_ (1677) by Nathaniel Lee (1655–92).

_Œdipus._ 1679.

_Relieve the killing languor._ Burke’s _Reflections on the Revolution in France_ (Select Works, ed. Payne, II. 120).

_Leave then the luggage_, and the two following quotations. _Don Sebastian_, Act II. 1.

359. _The Hughes._ John Hughes (1677–1720) author of _The Siege of Damascus_ 1720, and one of the contributors to _The Spectator_.

_The Hills._ Aaron Hill (1684–1749) poet and dramatist.

_The Murphys._ Arthur Murphy (1727–1805) dramatist and biographer.

_Fine by degrees._ Matthew Prior’s _Henry and Emma_.

_Southern._ Thomas Southerne (1660/1–1746), who wrote _Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave_ (1696).

_Lillo._ George Lillo (1693–1739), _Fatal Curiosity_, 1737.

_Moore._ Edward Moore (1712–1757), _The Gamester_, 1753.

_In one of his Letters._ See the letter dated September, 1737.

_Sent us weeping._ _Richard II._ V. 1.

_Rise sadder._ Coleridge’s _Ancient Mariner_.

_Douglas._ A tragedy by John Home (1724–1808), first played at Edinburgh in 1756.

360. _Decorum is the principal thing._ ‘What Decorum is, which is the grand Master-piece to observe.’ Milton on Education, Works, 1738, I. p. 140.

_Aristotle’s definition of tragedy._ In the _Poetics_.

_Lovers’ Vows._ Mrs. Inchbald’s adaptation from Kotzebue, 1800.

_Pizarro._ Sheridan’s adaptation from Kotzebue’s _The Spaniard in Peru_, 1799.

_Shews the very age._ _Hamlet_, III. 2.

361. _Orson._ In the fifteenth century romance, _Valentine and Orson_.

_Pure in the last recesses._ Dryden’s translation from the Second Satire of _Persius_, 133.

_There is some soul of goodness._ _Henry V._, IV. 1.

_There’s something rotten._ _Hamlet_, I. 4.

362. _The Sorrows of Werter._ Goethe’s _Sorrows of Werther_ was finished in 1774.

_The Robbers._ By Schiller, 1781.

_It was my wish._ Act III. 2.

363. _Don Carlos._ 1787.

_His Wallenstein._ Schiller’s, 1799; Coleridge’s, 1800.

_Cumberland’s imitation._ Richard Cumberland’s (1732–1811) _Wheel of Fortune_ (1779).

_Goethe’s tragedies._ _Count Egmont_, 1788; _Stella_, 1776; _Iphigenia_, 1786.

_Memoirs of Anastasius the Greek._ Thomas Hope’s (1770–1831) Eastern romance was published in 1819 and was received with enthusiasm by the _Edinburgh Review_.

_When in the fine summer evenings._ Werther (ed. Bohn), p. 337.

364. _As often got without merit._ _Othello_, II. 3.

SELECT BRITISH POETS

Dates, etc., are not given of those writers mentioned earlier in the present volume.

See W. C. Hazlitt’s _Memoirs of William Hazlitt_, II. 197–8, for the few details that are known concerning the origin of this work. It was the opinion of Edward Fitzgerald that ‘Hazlitt’s Poets is the best selection I have ever seen.’

367. _Dr. Knox._ Vicesimus Knox, D.D. (1752–1821), a voluminous and able author, preacher, and compiler. See Boswell’s _Johnson_, ed. G. B. Hill, iv. 390–1.

368. _Baser matter._ _Hamlet_, I. 5.

_Taken him._ _Romeo and Juliet_, III. 2.

369. _Perpetual feast._ _Comus_, 480.

_Rich and rare._ Cf. Pope, Prologue to _Satires_, 171.

371. _Daniel._ Samuel Daniel, 1562–1619.

372. _Cowley._ Abraham Cowley, 1618–1667.

_Roscommon._ Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1634–1685. His translation of Horace’s _Art of Poetry_ was published in 1680.

_Pomfret._ John Pomfret, 1667–1703. _The Choice_, 1699.

_Lord Dorset._ Thomas Sackville, Earl of Dorset (_c._ 1536–1608), author of the _Induction to a Mirror for Magistrates_, and joint-author with Thomas Norton of the tragedy _Ferrex and Porrex_ (Gorboduc). See p. 193, _et seq._

_J. Philips._ John Philips, 1676–1708. _The Splendid Shilling_, 1705.

_Halifax._ Charles Montague, Earl of Halifax, 1661–1715, joint-author with Matthew Prior of the parody on Dryden’s _Hind and Panther_, entitled _The Town and Country Mouse_.

373. _The mob of gentlemen._ Pope, _Epis. Hor._ Ep. I.