Book I

. Canto I. St. 7.

373. ‘_Speaking a word_,’ _etc._ Cf. _Proverbs_, XV. 23.

374. _Sacheverell._ Henry Sacheverell (1674–1724). The sermon referred to was preached before the University of Oxford on June 2, 1702. See Wilson’s _Memoirs, etc. of Defoe_, II. 27–28.

‘_So should his anticipation_,’ _etc._ _Hamlet_, Act II. Sc. 2.

375. _A Hymn to the Pillory._ 1703.

‘_See where on high_,’ _etc._ ‘Earless on high stood unabash’d De Foe.’ _The Dunciad_, II. 147.

‘_Dishonour, honourable._’ Cf. ‘Honour dishonourable.’ _Paradise Lost_, IV. 314.

‘_Condemned to everlasting fame._’ ‘Damned to everlasting fame.’ Pope, _Essay on Man_, IV. 284.

‘_Oh soul supreme_,’ _etc._ Pope, _Moral Essays_, Epistle V. 23–24.

‘_The fellow that was pilloried._’ See Swift’s _A Letter from a Member of the House of Commons in Ireland, to a Member of the House of Commons in England, concerning the Sacramental Test_ (1709).

‘_The superficial part of learning._’ Gay, in his _Present State of Wit_ (1711), spoke of Defoe as a ‘fellow, who had excellent natural parts, but wanted a small foundation of learning.’

376. ‘_Flying to others_,’ _etc._ Hamlet, Act III. Sc. 1.

376. ‘_Why troublest thou_,’ _etc._ Cf. ‘Art thou come hither to torment us before the time?’ _S. Matthew_, viii, 29.

377. _William Benson._ William Benson (1682–1754). Defoe was prosecuted and imprisoned for his anti-Jacobite tracts of 1713, _Reasons against the Succession of the House of Hanover, etc._

‘_The force of dulness_,’ _etc._ Cf. Dryden, _Lines printed under the Engraved Portrait of Milton_, 5.

378. _His History of that event._ _History of the Union of Great Britain_, 1709.

_Apology for the Massacre of Glencoe._ In Defoe’s _History of the Union_, 4to. edition, pp. 68–73.

‘_Hamlet, Prince of Denmark_,’ _etc._ See Wilson’s _Memoirs, etc., of Defoe_, II. 457.

379. _His novels._ Those referred to by Hazlitt are _Moll Flanders_, 1721; _Roxana_, 1724; _Captain Singleton_, 1720; _Colonel Jack_, 1722; and _Memoirs of a Cavalier_, 1720.

_The Family Instructor._ 1715–1718.

‘_Meddling with the unclean thing._’ Cf. _2 Corinthians_, VI. 17.

380. ‘_All the fore-end of his time._’ _Cymbeline_, Act III. Sc. 3.

‘_Vice, by losing_,’ _etc._ Burke, _Reflections on the Revolution in France_ (_Select Works_, ed. Payne, II. 89).

‘_Purple light._’ Cf. ‘The bloom of young Desire and purple light of Love.’ Gray, _The Progress of Poesy_, 41.

381. _What Mr. Lamb says, etc._ See Lamb’s ‘Estimate of De Foe’s Secondary Novels,’ written for Wilson’s _Life of Defoe_ (III. 636). The paper is reprinted in _The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb_, ed. E. V. Lucas, I. 325–327.

382. _Imposed upon Lord Chatham._ See Wilson’s _Memoirs, etc., of Defoe_, III. 509.

_History of Apparitions._ _An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions_, 1727.

‘_Call spirits_,’ _etc._ _Henry IV._,