Book VII

., ll. 976–1007].

‘If Mr. Wordsworth does not always write in this manner, it is his own fault. He can as often as he pleases. It is not in our power to add to, or take away from, the pretensions of a poem like the present, but if our opinion or wishes could have any weight, we would take our leave of it by saying—_Esto_ perpetua!’

The first two of these _Examiner_ articles are referred to by Lamb in a letter to Wordsworth of Sept. 19, 1814. See _Letters_, ed. W. C. Hazlitt, I. 434–5. It is significant of Hazlitt’s increasing bitterness (caused mainly, no doubt, by the final downfall of Napoleon) that the passages omitted from _The Round Table_ are for the most part of a highly eulogistic character.

ON ROCHEFOUCAULT’S MAXIMS

This paper is signed ‘W. H.’ in _The Examiner_.

254. ‘_The web of our life_,’ _etc._ _All’s Well that Ends Well_, Act IV. Sc. 3.

_The Practice of Piety._ See vol. III. (_Political Essays_), note to p. 111.

_Grove’s Ethics._ Henry Grove’s (1684–1738) _A System of Moral Philosophy_ (1749).

_De l’Esprit._ Helvétius’s famous book (1758).

Note. _Lines written while sailing in a boat at evening._

256. ‘_Make assurance_,’ _etc._ _Macbeth_, Act IV. Sc. 1.

257. ‘_Gets the start_,’ _etc._ _Julius Cæsar_, Act I. Sc. 2.

ON THE PREDOMINANT PRINCIPLES, ETC.

This essay, the title of which has been taken from the Index to _The Examiner_, is No. IX. of the _Round Table_ series. It was republished in _Winterslow_ under the title of ‘Mind and Motive.’

259. ‘_Friends now fast sworn_,’ _etc._ _Coriolanus_, Act IV. Sc. 4.

260. ‘_The servile slave._’ _The Faerie Queene_, II. vii. 33.

261. ‘_The toys of desperation._’ _Hamlet_, Act I. Sc. 4.

262. _A fine observation_, _etc._ Aristotle, _Metaphysics_, A I. 980 a, 21.

THE LOVE OF POWER, ETC.

No. XIII. of the _Round Table_ series, republished in _Winterslow_ along with the former essay as ‘Mind and Motive.’

265. ‘_But for an utmost end_,’ _etc._ Hobbes, _Human Nature_, VII. 5, 6 (_Works_, ed. Molesworth, IV. 33).

266. ‘_He courted a statue_,’ _etc._ _Don Quixote_, Part I .