Book I

. Chap. 4.

139. _Shaftesbury or Hutcheson._ Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671–1713), author of the _Characteristics_ (1711), and Francis Hutcheson (1694–1746), a supporter of Shaftesbury’s ethics.

140. ‘_Pity is only_,’ _etc._ See Hobbes’s _Human Nature_, Chap. IX. Sect. 10.

147. ‘_The jealous God_,’ _etc._

‘Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.’ Pope, _Eloisa to Abelard_, 75–6.

158. ‘_Thrills in each nerve_,’ _etc._ Cf.

‘Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.’ Pope, _An Essay on Man_, l. 218.

159. ‘_The hair-breadth scapes_,’ _etc._ _Othello_, Act I. Sc. 3.

160. _Junius has remarked, etc._ In his letter to George III. (Dec. 19, 1769).

MADAME DE STAËL’S ACCOUNT OF GERMAN PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE

Madame de Staël’s _De l’Allemagne_, published in London in 1813, had been reviewed, possibly by Hazlitt, in _The Morning Chronicle_ for Nov. 13, 1813, and the four papers here reprinted and signed ‘An English Metaphysician’ are ostensibly a continuation of that review, though they contain very little about German philosophy and nothing at all about German literature. They are, in fact, merely fragments in letter form of the course of lectures which Hazlitt had recently delivered at the Russell Institution. See _ante_, pp. 25 _et seq._ and notes. Hazlitt was a regular contributor to _The Morning Chronicle_ during 1813 and 1814. Some of his contributions on politics, the stage, and the fine arts will be found in vols. III., VIII. and IX. of the present edition; and he gives an account of his relations with James Perry, the editor, in the essay ‘On Patronage and Puffing’ (see vol. VI. p. 289). None of the _Chronicle_ papers included in the present volume have been republished before.

162. _The article in The Edinburgh Review._ Vol. XXII. p. 198. The review was by Jeffrey.

164. ‘_They were made fierce_,’ _etc._ Cf. _ante_, note to p. 27.

165. ‘_Four champions fierce_,’ _etc._ Cf. _ante_, note to p. 28.

THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED

167. ‘_A justly decried author._’ Locke, _Third Letter to the Bishop of Worcester_ (_Works_, Bohn, II. 401).

‘_Fame is no plant_,’ _etc._ _Lycidas_, 78–82.

168. ‘_Harsh and crabbed._’ _Comus_, 476.

_Willich. Elements of the Critical Philosophy, etc., Translated by A. F. M. Willich, M.D._, appeared in 1798. _The Critique of Pure Reason_ had appeared in 1781.

171. ‘_And all this_,’ _etc._ Ben Jonson, _The Alchemist_, Act II. Sc. 1.

THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED

174. _‘A dark closet_,’ _etc._ Cf. Locke’s _Essay_, II. xi. 17.

‘_Drossy and divisible._’ Dryden, _The Hind and the Panther_, I. 319.

175. _Mrs. Salmon’s ... wax figures._ An old established exhibition in Fleet Street, near Temple Bar. See _The Spectator_, No. 28.

176. ‘_Without form and void._’ _Genesis_ i. 2.

179. ‘_Thrills in each nerve_,’ _etc._ Cf. _ante_, note to p. 158.

‘_Jove’s light’nings_,’ _etc._ _The Tempest_, Act I. Sc. 2.

THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED

At the end of this letter it was announced that ‘Another Letter on the _Principles of Human Action_ will conclude this series.’ The promised Letter, however, does not seem to have been published.

181. ‘_Peace to all such._’ Cf. _ante_, note to p. 84.

Note. For Fearn’s book, see _Table Talk_, vol. VI. pp. 63–5; 260–2 and notes.

183. ‘_So from the root_,’ _etc._ Cf. _ante_, note to p. 1.

186. ‘_Had oft been chased_,’ _etc._ _The Hind and the Panther_, I. 5–8.

FINE ARTS.—BRITISH INSTITUTION

Hazlitt used a portion of this notice in the essay on ‘Fine Arts’ which he afterwards (1824) contributed to _The Encyclopædia Britannica_. See vol. IX., pp. 406–7. The British Institution was founded in 1805 at 52 Pall Mall and continued till 1866. The winter exhibition was of the works of living artists. A second notice, in _The Morning Chronicle_ for Feb. 10, is probably by Hazlitt. It contains very brief comments on the less notable pictures, and is not reprinted here.

188. _Mr. Bird’s Picture of Job._ The painter was Edward Bird (1772–1819), elected a Royal Academician in 1815.

189. _Mr. Allston’s large picture._ This picture by the ‘American Titian,’ Washington Allston (1779–1843), gained a prize of 200 guineas from the British Institution and is now at Philadelphia.

190. _Mr. Hilton’s Picture._ By William Hilton (1786–1839), Royal Academician (1818).

_Mr. West’s Picture._ For Benjamin West (1738–1820), who succeeded Reynolds (1792) as President of the Royal Academy, see vol. IX. (_Essays on the Fine Arts_), pp. 318 _et seq._

‘_Pure religion_,’ _etc._ Wordsworth’s Sonnet, ‘O Friend! I know not which way I must look,’ etc.

_Society for the suppression of vice._ Cf. vol. I. (_The Round Table_), p. 60 and note.

_Mr. Turner’s grand landscape._ Now in the National Gallery and (wrongly) known as ‘Apuleia in search of Apuleius.’ The confusion seems to have arisen from a misreading by Turner of a story in Ovid’s _Metamorphoses_ (XIV. 517 _et seq._) which the picture was designed to illustrate.

_Lord Egremont’s picture._ An engraving by Woollett of Claude’s ‘Jacob and Laban’ was in the possession of Lord Egremont at Petworth, and it is probably to this that Hazlitt refers. It was at Petworth that Turner painted the landscape in question.

191. ‘_Mercury and Herse._’ Exhibited in 1811.

_The Favourite Lamb._ By William Collins (1788–1847).

THE STAGE

Nearly the whole of this paper was incorporated into the essay on _Richard III._ in _Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays_. See vol. I. pp. 300–303 and notes.

192. ‘_As tenderly be led_,’ _etc._ _Othello_, Act I. Sc. 3.

‘_Bustle in._’ _Richard III._, Act I. Sc. 1.

THE FINE ARTS. THE LOUVRE

195. _Blücher._ The fighting at Laon had taken place on March 9 and 10. Blücher entered Paris on March 31.

‘_Away to Heav’n_,’ _etc._ _Romeo and Juliet_, Act III. Sc. 1.

‘_Nay, if you mouth_,’ _etc._ _Hamlet_, Act V. Sc. 1.

196. ‘_Pigeon-liver’d_,’ _etc._ _Hamlet_, Act II. Sc. 2.

‘_Scrawls_,’ _etc._ Pope, _Prologue to the Satires_, 19–20.

_The treaty of Pilnitz._ See vol. III. (_Political Essays_), p. 61 and note.

‘_This present ignorant time._’ Cf. _Macbeth_, Act I. Sc. 5.

‘_Tell me your company_,’ _etc._ The proverb is quoted in _Don Quixote_,