Book VI

. Canto X. St. 13.

‘_Their affections_,’ _etc._ _Hamlet_, Act III. Sc. 1.

187. _In that part of the country._ Winterslow presumably.

‘_Returning with a choral song_,’ _etc._ Wordsworth, _Ruth_, 53–54.

‘_We also are not Arcadians!_’ Hazlitt frequently quoted the old saying, attributed to Schidoni, ‘Et ego in Arcadia vixi.’ See, _e.g._ _Table Talk_, vol. VI. p. 168.

188. ‘_The unbought grace of life._’ Burke, _Reflections on the Revolution in France_ (_Select Works_, ed. Payne, II. 89).

190. _Leo._ Leo X. (1475–1521), son of Lorenzo de’ Medici.

_Piranesi’s drawings._ Giambattista Piranesi (1720–1778), engraver of architecture and ancient ruins.

_Winckelman._ Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768), author of _Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums_ (1764).

191. ‘_All eyes_’ _etc._ Cf. _Isaiah_, xlv. 22–23, and _Romans_, xiv. 11.

‘_Amazing brightness_,’ _etc._ Otway, _Venice Preserved_, Act I. Sc. 1.

‘_A present deity_,’ _etc._ Dryden, _Alexander’s Feast_, 35–36.

_The Madona of Foligno._ Raphael’s, in the Vatican.

_The ceiling at Parma._ Painted by Girolamo Mazzola, a pupil of Correggio.

192. _Leonardo’s Last Supper._ This famous fresco, now almost entirely destroyed, was at the convent of S. Maria delle Grazie at Milan.

_The institution of Academies, etc._ Cf. vol I. _The Round Table_, p. 160 and note, and vol. IX. p. 311 _et seq._

195. ‘_The cat and canary-bird_,’ _etc._ See _ante_, p. 193.

‘_Leaving the thing_,’ _etc._ _Philippians_, iii. 13.

196. _The Catalogue Raisonnée._ Cf. vol. I., _The Round Table_, pp. 140 _et seq._

‘_With jealous leer malign._’ _Paradise Lost_, IV. 503.

197. _Grampound._ The borough was disfranchised for corrupt practices in 1821.

‘_That is true history._’ This was said by Fuseli. See vol. VI. (_Mr. Northcote’s Conversations_), p. 340.

199. _Mr. West’s pictures._ Benjamin West (1738–1820), president of the Royal Academy from 1792. Cf. vol. IX. pp. 318 _et seq._

_Barry._ James Barry (1741–1806). Hazlitt refers to one of the pictures Barry painted for the Society of Arts in John Street, Adelphi.

200. ‘_The bodiless creations_,’ _etc._ Cf. _Hamlet_, Act III. Sc. 4, ll. 136–137.

‘_Like the baseless fabric_,’ _etc._ _The Tempest_, Act IV. Sc. 1.

_Mr. Haydon._ Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786–1846). Mr. W. C. Hazlitt has given an account of his relations with Hazlitt. See _Memoirs_, I. 209–213, and _Four Generations of a Literary Family_, I. 234–236. At his house Hazlitt met Keats.

‘_So from the root_,’ _etc._ _Paradise Lost_, V. 479–481.

201. _His own Penitent Girl._ Hazlitt seems to refer to a figure in the _Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem_.

_His Christ._ Haydon’s picture, _Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem_, was first exhibited in 1820. At the private view, Haydon says (Tom Taylor’s _Life_, I. 371), ‘the room was full, Keats and Hazlitt were up in a corner, really rejoicing.’ Hazlitt is introduced into the picture ‘looking at the Saviour as an investigator.’ The picture is now in America. For Mrs. Siddons’s opinion of the picture see _Life_, I. 372.

_Mr. Haydon is a devoted, etc._ See his letter in _The Examiner_, March 17, 1816.

THE PERIODICAL PRESS

This essay is referred to by Brougham, who, on August 18, 1837, wrote to Macvey Napier (then editor of the _Edinburgh Review_): ‘I wish the _Newspaper Press_ had not been flattered so much; at any rate its glaring faults should have been pointed out. This was done, and very ill done, in 1823, when it had hardly any sins to answer for.’ (_Selections from the Correspondence of Macvey Napier_, p. 199).

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204. ‘_We are_ [I am] _nothing, if not critical_. _Othello_, Act II. Sc. 1. The words were used by Hazlitt as the motto to _A View of the English Stage_.

_Terra plena, etc._ _Æneid_, I. 460.

‘_Large discourse_,’ _etc._ _Hamlet_, Act IV. Sc. 4.

205. ‘_The pomp of elder days._’ Thomas Warton’s Sonnet, ‘Written in a blank leaf of Dugdale’s _Monasticon_.’

206. ‘_Cabin’d_,’ _etc._ _Macbeth_, Act III. Sc. 4.

207. _The Children of the Mist._ In _The Legend of Montrose_.

‘_A chemist_,’ _etc._ _Absalom and Achitophel_, I. 550.

208. _Sir Thomas Lawrence._ President of the Royal Academy from 1820 till his death in 1830.

‘_Though he should have_,’ _etc._ Adapted from _1 Corinthians_, xiii. 1.

‘_The toe of the scholar_,’ _etc._ Varied from _Hamlet_, Act V. Sc. 1.

209. ‘_Take the good_,’ _etc._ Dryden, _Alexander’s Feast_, 106.

210. ‘_Make the age to come her own._’ Cowley, _The Motto_, l. 2.

_Mille ornatus habet, etc._ ‘Mille habet ornatus, mille decenter habet.’ From the first of the Sulpicia poems which are in