Part I

. Chap. 3.

_A Race for Dinner._ By G. H. B. Rodwell (1800–1852).

‘_And Birnam wood_,’ _etc._ _Macbeth_, Acts IV. and V.

_The Poor Gentleman._ By George Colman the Younger (1801).

375. ‘_To advantage dressed._’ Pope, _An Essay on Criticism_, 297.

376. _Miss Ellen Tree._ Ellen Tree (1805–1880), who married Charles Kean in 1842. She was a younger sister of Mrs. Bradshaw, the actress and singer.

377. _Miss Love._ Emma Love, afterwards Mrs. Calcroft, had made her first appearance on the stage in 1817 at the English Opera House.

THE TAMING OF THE SHREW AND L’AVARE

377. ‘_The lungs of others_,’ _etc._ Cf. _As You Like It_, Act II. Sc. 7.

378. _Mr. Wilkie failed_, _etc._ See _ante_, p. 252.

‘_Warble, warble._’ _As You Like It_, Act II. Sc. 5.

379. _Mademoiselle Mars._ For Mademoiselle Mars in ‘a sort of shadowy _Catherine and Petruchio_,’ see vol. IX. p. 151.

380. _Ninette à la cour._ By Charles Simon Favart (1710–1792).

381. _Seraglio._ An opera by Dimond, produced in 1827.

_Charles the Second._ By Howard Payne, produced in 1824.

MRS. SIDDONS

381. _Pie Voleuse._ See _ante_, note to p. 304.

‘_Born to converse_,’ _etc._ Cf. Pope, _Prologue to the Satires_, 196.

_The Fall of Nineveh._ By John Martin (1789–1854). The painting was being exhibited in Bond Street.

382. _Abridged Paradise Lost._ Mrs. Siddons published _The Story of our First Parents selected from Milton’s Paradise Lost for the use of young persons_, 1822.

_A triumphant peroration_, _etc._ Hazlitt no doubt refers to Scott’s _Life of Napoleon_, published in 1827.

‘_The worst, the second fall of man._’ Cf. William Windham, _Speeches_, II. 47 (Nov. 4, 1801).

384. ‘_Barren spectators._’ _Hamlet_, Act III. Sc. 2.

_Mr. Stanfield’s landscape back-grounds._ William Clarkson Stanfield (1793–1867).

_Veluti in speculum._ Cf. ‘Inspicere tamquam in speculum in vitas omnium,’ etc. Terence, _Adelphi_, Act III. Sc. 3.

THE THREE QUARTERS, ETC.

384. _The new comedy._ _Ups and Downs, or the Ladder of Life_ was the title of the piece here noticed by Hazlitt. It was acted eight times.

_The secretary of the Admiralty_, _etc._ Croker. Cf. _ante_, p. 344.

385. _A nice distinction in Miss Burney._ See her _Cecilia_.

_Killing no Murder._ A farce by Theodore Hook, produced in 1809.

386. ‘_Like dew-drops_,’ _etc._ _Troilus and Cressida_, Act III. Sc. 3.

‘_Fine by degrees_,’ _etc._ Prior, _Henry and Emma_, 430.

‘_They best can paint them_,’ _etc._ Pope, _Eloisa to Abelard_, 366.

_Lord Porchester’s tragedy._ _Don Pedro, King of Castile_, by Lord Porchester, afterwards 3rd Earl of Carnarvon (1800–1849) was produced at Drury Lane on March 10, 1828.

_Lord Morpeth’s._ Lord Morpeth, afterwards 7th Earl of Carlisle (1802–1864) published in 1828 _The Last of the Greeks; or the Fall of Constantinople_, a tragedy in verse.

386. _The Sphynx_, _etc._ _The Sphynx_ (1827) and _The Athenæum_ (1828) were started, and _The Argus_ (1828) was projected by James Silk Buckingham (1786–1855).

387. ‘_Oh! dearest Ophelia_,’ _etc._ _Hamlet_, Act II. Sc. 2.

388. ‘_He knows his cue_,’ _etc._ Cf. _Othello_, Act I. Sc. 2.

MR. KEAN

389. _We do not wonder_, _etc._ Kean had played Richard III. at the Théâtre Français in May 1828.

_Voltaire has borrowed_, _etc._ Cf. _ante_, p. 282.

‘_The poet’s eye_,’ _etc._ _A Midsummer Night’s Dream_, Act V. Sc. 1.

390. ‘_Should be as a book_,’ _etc._ _Macbeth_, Act I. Sc. 5.

_The Hetman Platoff._ The Russian general, Matvei Ivanovich Platoff (1757–1818), Hetman of the Cossacks of the Don. See vol. IX. p. 465.

391. ‘_Give us pause._’ _Hamlet_, Act III. Sc. 1.

_Miss Smithson._ Harriet Constance Smithson (1800–1854), who played frequently in France and married Hector Berlioz in 1833.

_A series of elegant bas-reliefs_, _etc._ Cf. vol. VIII. p. 456, where the same comparison is made.

392. _Little Bartolozzi._ Miss Bartolozzi made her first appearance (at the Haymarket) on June 17, 1828. She was a sister of Madame Vestris.

MUNDEN’S SIR PETER TEAZLE

For Hazlitt’s connection with The _Times_ as dramatic critic see vol. VIII. p. 512. The fifteen articles reprinted for the first time in the present volume have been included upon internal evidence of Hazlitt’s authorship. No reasonable doubt can be felt with regard to any of them.

392. _Past Ten O’clock._ ‘A moderate farce’ by Dibdin, produced March 11, 1815. See Genest. In another account of Munden (vol. VIII. p. 270) Hazlitt had referred to his ‘broad shining face’ and ‘the alarming drop of his chin.’

YOUNG’S HAMLET

Cf. this paper with the account of _Hamlet_ in _Characters of Shakespear’s Plays_, vol. I. p. 237.

394. _The Miller and his Men._ A successful melodrama by Pocock, produced in 1813.

395. ‘_The paragon of animals._’ _Hamlet_, Act II. Sc. 2.

‘_Peaked or pined._’ _Macbeth_, Act I. Sc. 3.

‘_Oh that this too, too solid flesh_,’ _etc._ _Hamlet_, Act I. Sc. 2.

‘_The pretty Ophelia._’ _Ibid._ Act IV. Sc. 5.

DOWTON IN THE HYPOCRITE

Cf. the notice of _The Hypocrite_ in _A View of the English Stage_, vol. VIII. pp. 245–7.

395. ‘_Very craftily qualified._’ _Othello_, Act II. Sc. 3.

MISS BRUNTON’S ROSALIND

Cf. the notices of two other Rosalinds in _A View, etc._, vol. VIII. pp. 252 and 336.

397. _Miss Brunton._ Elizabeth Brunton (1799–1860), who in 1823 married Frederick Henry Yates, the actor.

‘_Good emphasis and discretion._’ Cf. ‘With good accent and good discretion,’ _Hamlet_, Act II. Sc. 2.

‘_The gods_,’ _etc._ _As You Like It_, Act III. Sc. 3.

MAYWOOD’S ZANGA

Hazlitt had noticed Maywood’s Shylock. See _A View_, _etc._ vol. VIII. p. 374. In 1821 Maywood wrote to Hazlitt from New York introducing a Mr. Greenhow, who was entrusted to present to Hazlitt a morsel of George Cooke’s liver. See Mr. W. C. Hazlitt’s _Memoirs_, _etc._, II. 1–2.

398. ‘_From the sound_,’ _etc._ Cf. Collins, Ode, _The Passions_, 19–20.

‘_Distilling them_,’ _etc._ Cf. _Hamlet_, Act I. Sc. 5.

‘_Too tame._’ _Ibid._, Act III. Sc. 2.

‘_’Twas I that did it._’ _The Revenge_, Act V. Sc. 2.

‘_Forced gait._’ _1 Henry IV._, Act III. Sc. 1.

KEAN’S RICHARD III.

Cf. the essay on Richard III. in _Characters of Shakespear’s Plays_ (vol. I. pp. 298–303), where Hazlitt speaks of the ‘miserable medley acted for Richard III.’ and gives some of the omitted passages as being ‘peculiarly adapted for stage effect.’ Shakespeare’s _Richard III._ was revived at Covent Garden on March 12, 1821, Macready playing Richard and Mrs. Bunn Queen Margaret.

399. ‘_Now is the winter_,’ _etc._ _Richard III._, Act I. Sc. 1.

‘_Even so!_’ _etc. Ibid._

400. ‘_They do me wrong_,’ _etc. Ibid._ Act I. Sc. 3.

‘_His grace looks cheerfully_,’ _etc. Ibid._ Act III. Sc. 4.

THE WONDER

Cf. _A View_, _etc._, vol. VIII. p. 332.

402. ‘_Snatch a grace_,’ _etc._ Pope, _An Essay on Criticism_, 155.

‘_Catch ere she falls_,’ _etc._ Pope, _Moral Essays_, II. 20.

VENICE PRESERVED

Cf. the account of Kemble’s Pierre, vol. VIII. p. 378.

403. ‘_The most replenished_,’ _etc._ _Richard III._, Act IV. Sc. 3.

SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER

403. _Borrowed from Fielding’s Joseph Andrews._ Cf. vol. III. p. 115.

404. ‘_His singularity_,’ _etc._ Johnson frequently denounced singularity. The instances are collected in Boswell’s _Life_, ed. G. B. Hill, II. 74–5.

KEAN’S MACBETH

405. _Except in the murder scene._ Cf. vol. VIII. p. 207.

‘_Proud and lion-hearted_,’ _etc._ Cf. ‘Be lion-mettled, proud, and take no care,’ etc. _Macbeth_, Act IV. Sc. 1.

KEAN’S OTHELLO

405. _This young debutante._ Her name was Mrs. Robinson.

406. _Mr. Kean’s Othello_, _etc._ This passage, to the end of the notice, was quoted more than once by Hazlitt. Cf. _ante_, p. 368 and vol. VIII. p. 414 and notes.

KEAN AND MISS O’NEILL

Cf. this with Hazlitt’s appreciation of Miss O’Neill in _The London Magazine_, vol. VIII. of the present edition, pp. 392 _et seq._

407. ‘_O’erstep the modesty_,’ _etc._ _Hamlet_, Act III. Sc. 2.

408. ‘_As one in suffering all_,’ _etc. Ibid._

‘_Abide the beating_,’ _etc._ _Twelfth Night_, Act II. Sc. 4.

THE HONEY MOON

409. ‘_What is set down for him._’ _Hamlet_, Act III. Sc. 2.

‘_Plautus was too light_,’ _etc._ Cf. _Hamlet_, Act II. Sc. 2.

‘_And near him_,’ _etc._ Collins, _Ode on the Poetical Character_, 43–4.

‘_Grew sharp as a pen._’ _Henry V._, Act II. Sc. 3.

410. ‘_Go thou_,’ _etc._ _S. Luke_ x. 37.

MR. KEAN

410. ‘_Not Fate itself could awe._’ _Richard III._ (Cibber’s version),

## Act V. Sc. 3.

KING JOHN

411. ‘_To me_,’ _etc._ _King John_, Act III. Sc. 1.

THE PRESS, ETC.

Hazlitt was a very frequent contributor to John Hunt’s ‘Weekly Miscellany,’ _The Yellow Dwarf_, which ran from Jan. 1 to May 23, 1818. Most of his contributions were included in _Political Essays_. See vol. III. pp. 254 _et seq._ Of those included in the present volume ‘The Opera’ was reprinted with some omissions and variations in _Literary Remains_, the rest are now republished for the first time, on the strength of what the editors regard as the conclusive internal evidence of Hazlitt’s authorship. All the essays are reprinted _verbatim_ from the Magazine.

411. _M. Jollivet._ Jean Baptiste Moïse, Comte Jollivet (1753–1818), a prominent French politician.

412. ‘_Had’st thou believed_,’ _etc._ _Zapolya_, Prelude, Sc. 1.

413. _Was one of the passages, etc._ See the last chapter of Coleridge’s _Biographia Literaria_.

_‘Restored,’ etc._ _Carmen Triumphale_, St. XVIII.

‘_A full solemne man._’ _Canterbury Tales_, Prologue, 209.

414. _Odes on Hoffer, etc._ Hazlitt refers to some of Wordsworth’s ‘Poems dedicated to National Independence and Liberty.’

_‘A dateless bargain,’ etc._ Cf. _Romeo and Juliet_, Act V. Sc. 3.

_‘Stretching out,’ etc._ _Macbeth_, Act IV. Sc. 1.

_‘The same,’ etc._ Hazlitt is no doubt quoting from Southey’s _Carmen Nuptiale_, St. 52.

_Mrs. Tofts._ See Hogarth’s ‘Credulity, Superstition, and Fanaticism,’ where the well-known imposture of Mary Tofts (1701?–1763) is ridiculed.

415. _‘Charm these deaf adders,’ etc._ Cf. _Psalms_, lviii. 4, 5.

_‘Drops which sacred pity,’ etc._ _As You Like It_, Act II. Sc. 7.

_‘Which knaves,’ etc._ Butler, _Hudibras_, I. i. 35–6.

416. _‘The Gods,’ etc._ Cf. _As You Like It_, Act III. Sc. 3.

‘_A mingled_ [medley] _air,’ etc._ Wordsworth, _Peter Bell_, 304–5.

MR. COLERIDGE’S LECTURES

This course of Lectures began on Jan. 27, and ended on March 13, 1818. Hazlitt was lecturing on Poetry at the same time. For Coleridge’s prospectus see _Lectures on Shakespeare_ (ed. Ashe), 170.

416. _‘Those fair parts,’ etc._ Cf. _Romeo and Juliet_, Act II. Sc. 1.

417. ‘_Unhouselled_,’ [unhoused] _etc._ _Othello_, Act I. Sc. 2.

_‘This island’s mine,’ etc._ _The Tempest_, Act I. Sc. 2.

_‘Independently of his conduct,’ etc._ Cf. vol. III. (_Political Essays_), p. 285.

_‘He had peopled else,’ etc._ _The Tempest_, Act I. Sc. 2.

‘_Lunes and abstractions._’ Cf. _The Merry Wives of Windsor_, Act IV. Sc. 2.

418. ‘_Conquering and to conquer._’ _Revelation_ vi. 2.

_Bertram._ Cf. vol. X. p. 158, and _ante_, pp. 412–3.

‘_Tedious and brief._’ _A Midsummer Night’s Dream_, Act V. Sc. 1.

_‘The man may indeed be a reviewer,’ etc._ This saying does not seem to have been reported elsewhere. Coleridge and Wordsworth were often accused of ridiculing Southey’s poetical genius.

419. _‘Fie, Sir!’ etc._ Milman, _Fazio_, Act II. Sc. 1.

_‘To leave this keen encounter,’ etc._ _Richard III._, Act I. Sc. 2.

‘_Reason_ [reasons] _as plenty,’ etc._ _1 Henry IV._, Act II. Sc. 4.

‘_The inconstant moon._’ _Romeo and Juliet_, Act II. Sc. 2.

420. _‘His large discourse of reason,’ etc._ _Hamlet_, Act IV. Sc. 4.

CHILDE HAROLD’S PILGRIMAGE

420. _‘I do perceive a fury,’ etc._ Cf.

‘I do understand a fury in your words, But not the words.’ _Othello_, Act IV. Sc. 2.

421. _‘And as the soldiers’ bare dead bodies lay,’ etc._ _1 Henry IV._, Act I. Sc. 3.

_‘The very age,’ etc._ ‘The very age and body of the time.’ _Hamlet_, Act III. Sc. 2.

_‘An understanding,’ etc._ ‘Give it an understanding, but no tongue.’ _Hamlet_, Act I. Sc. 2.

421. _‘They are begot,’ etc._ Hazlitt was perhaps thinking of ‘Begot upon itself, born on itself.’ _Othello_, Act III. Sc. 4.

_‘He has tasted,’ etc._ Lamb’s version (as given by Coleridge) of Thekla’s song in Act II. Sc. 6 of _The Piccolomini_. See Coleridge’s _Poetical Works_ (ed. J. D. Campbell), p. 648. Lamb himself printed the song differently. See _The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb_, ed. E. V. Lucas, v. 27 and notes.

422. _‘The man whose eye,’ etc._ Wordsworth, _Lines left upon a Seat in a Yew-tree, etc._, 55–59.

_Hogarth’s famous print._ Hazlitt perhaps refers to Hogarth’s frontispiece to Kirby’s ‘Perspective.’

‘_As ’twere in spite of scorn._’ Cf. _Paradise Lost_, I. 619.

_‘The child and champion,’ etc._ See vol. III. p. 99 and note.

424. _‘The statue,’ etc._ Thomson, _The Seasons_, Summer, 1346.

‘_The starry Galileo._’ _Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage_, Canto IV. 54.

_‘Now in glimmer,’ etc._ Coleridge, _Christabel_, 169.

_‘Moving wild laughter,’ etc._ _Love’s Labour’s Lost_, Act V. Sc. 2.

_‘The double night’, etc._ _Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage_, Canto IV. 81.

425. ‘_Seen of all eyes._’ Cf. _Revelation_, i. 7.

THE OPERA

426. _‘The glass of fashion,’ etc._ _Hamlet_, Act III. Sc. 1.

‘_The fool of the senses._’ _Macbeth_, Act II. Sc. 1.

_‘How happy,’ etc._ _The Beggar’s Opera_, Act II. Sc. 2.

428. _‘With some sweet,’ etc._ _Macbeth_, Act V. Sc. 3.

_‘The cloister’d heart,’ etc._ Cf. _ante_, p. 268 and note.

429. _‘The flower of Britain’s warriors,’ etc._ Southey, _Carmen Nuptiale_, 16.

430. _A contemporary critic._ Hazlitt perhaps refers to Schlegel. See vol. VIII. (_A View, etc._) p. 324.

ON THE QUESTION WHETHER POPE WAS A POET

Hazlitt was for a time a fairly frequent contributor to _The Edinburgh Magazine_ (New Series), otherwise known as _The New Scots Magazine_. Two of his contributions, ‘Remarks on Mr. West’s Picture of Death on the Pale Horse,’ and ‘On the Ignorance of the Learned,’ have been published in vols. IX. and VI. respectively. The essays ‘On Fashion,’ ‘On Nicknames’ and ‘Thoughts on Taste’ in the present volume were first reprinted with omissions and variations in _Sketches and Essays_ (1839); those ‘On the Question whether Pope was a Poet,’ (signed W. H.), and ‘On Respectable People,’ are now reprinted for the first time.

431. ‘_The pale reflex._’ _Romeo and Juliet_, Act III. Sc. 5.

432. _‘In fortune’s ray,’ etc._ _Troilus and Cressida_, Act I. Sc. 3.

‘_Gnarled oak._’ Shakespeare uses this phrase (_Measure for Measure_, Act II. Sc. 2), but Hazlitt probably meant a ‘knotted oak’ which is the expression used in the passage he had just written down.

_‘Calm contemplation,’ etc._ Thomson, _The Seasons_, Autumn, 1277.

ON RESPECTABLE PEOPLE

Signed ‘A. Z.’ in the Magazine.

434. ‘_Buys golden opinions._’ _Macbeth_, Act I. Sc. 7.

_‘The learned pate,’ etc._ _Timon of Athens_, Act IV. Sc. 3.

435. _Otway, etc._ Otway, according to the familiar but probably untrue account first given by T. Cibber in _The Lives of the Poets_, was choked by the first mouthful of a roll which he bought with money given to him by a gentleman in a coffee-house.

‘_For a song._’ The story of Lord Burghley’s ungenerous treatment of Spenser was first recorded by Fuller.

‘_The time gives evidence of it._’ Cf. ‘This was sometime a paradox, but now the time gives it proof.’ _Hamlet_, Act III. Sc. 1.

436. _‘What can ennoble sots,’ etc._ Pope, _An Essay on Man_, IV. 215–6.

‘_All honourable men._’ _Julius Cæsar_, Act III. Sc. 2.

437. ‘_Lives and fortunes men._’ For the old formula of ‘lives and fortunes’ see Burke’s _Reflections on the Revolution in France_ (_Select Works_, ed. Payne, II. 18 and note.)

ON FASHION

437. _‘Born of nothing,’ etc._ Cf. _ante_, note to p. 421.

_‘His garment,’ etc._ _The Faerie Queene_, III. xii. 8.

‘_The great vulgar and the small._’ Cowley, Horace’s _Odes_, III. 1.

439. _‘The sign of an inward,’ etc._ Misquoted from the Catechism.

440. _‘And are, when unadorned,’ etc._ Thomson, _The Seasons_, Autumn, 206.

‘_The city madam_’ [woman], _etc._ _As You Like It_, Act II. Sc. 7.

_‘The age is grown so picked,’ etc._ _Hamlet_, Act V. Sc. 1.

441. _The story in Peregrine Pickle._ Chap, lxxxvii.

_‘Lisping and ambling,’ etc._ Cf. _Hamlet_, Act III. Sc. 1.

442. ‘_In a high or low degree._’ Cf. Pope, _Epilogue to the Satires_, 1. 137.

_‘And thin partitions,’ etc._ Dryden, _Absalom and Achitophel_, 1. 164.

‘_Kings are naturally,’ etc._ Burke, _Speech on Economical Reform_ (_Works_, Bohn, II. 106).

ON NICKNAMES

442. _‘Hæ nugæ,’ etc._ Cf. Horace, _Ars Poetica_, 451–2.

443. _‘The priest,’ etc._ _The Beggar’s Opera_, Act I. Sc. 1.

_‘As infidels,’ etc._ Hazlitt alludes to a note in the ‘Beauties of the Anti-Jacobin,’ denouncing Coleridge, Lamb, and Southey. See vol. X. (_Contributions to the Edinburgh Review_), p. 139.

444. _‘Sound them,’ etc._ _Julius Cæsar_, Act I. Sc. 2.

_An eminent character._ Probably Stoddart, late editor of _The Times_. See _post_, p. 448.

_‘Hath Britain all the sun,’ etc._ _Cymbeline_, Act III. Sc. 4.

445. ‘_Brevity is the soul of wit._’ _Hamlet_, Act II. Sc. 2.

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

446. _‘Leave the will puzzled,’ etc._ _Ibid._, II. 103.

_‘Bring but a Scotsman,’ etc._ Burns, _The Author’s Earnest Cry and Prayer, etc._ Postscript, St. 4.

447. _‘As rage,’ etc._ _Troilus and Cressida_, Act I. Sc. 3.

_‘A nickname is the heaviest stone,’ etc._ Cf. ‘It is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him he is at the end of his nature.’ Sir Thomas Browne, _Hydriotaphia_, IV. 23. See also vol. III. (_Political Essays_), p. 261.

_As Canning pelted a noble lord, etc._ Canning ridiculed Henry Addington (afterwards Lord Sidmouth) under the title of the ‘Doctor.’ His father was well known as a ‘mad’ doctor.

448. _‘With so small a web,’ etc._ _Othello_, Act II. Sc. 1.

_‘A starling,’ etc._ _1 Henry IV._, Act I. Sc. 3.

449. _Stat nominis umbra._ Lucan, _Pharsalia_, I. 135.

THOUGHTS ON TASTE

450. _‘He had found a few pearls,’ etc._ _Œuvres_, L. 58. July 19, 1776.

_‘Rich as the oozy bottom,’ etc._ _Henry V._, Act I. Sc. 2.

_‘Or like a gate of steel,’ etc._ _Troilus and Cressida_, Act III. Sc. 3.

451. ‘_Damns_ [condemns] _him,’ etc._ _Much Ado About Nothing_, Act IV. Sc. 3.

_‘Lay their choppy fingers,’ etc._ _Macbeth_, Act I. Sc. 3.

452. _‘Have built high towers,’ etc._ _Paradise Lost_, I. 749.

_‘Majestic though in ruin.’_ _Paradise Lost_, II. 305.

_Innocence ‘likest heaven.’_ ‘O innocence deserving Paradise.’ _Ibid._, V. 445–6.

_‘In tones,’ etc._ _Paradise Regained_, IV. 255.

_The author of the ‘Friend,’ etc._ Coleridge may have said this to Hazlitt himself. He described Pope’s writings as ‘a conjunction disjunctive of epigrams’ (_Biographia Literaria_, chap. I.). For his views on French Tragedy, see _ibid._, Satyrane’s _Letters_, Letter II.

_The author of the ‘Excursion,’ etc._ See _The Excursion_, II. 484. Cf. vol. I. (_The Round Table_), p. 116 and note.

Note. _Non satis est, etc._ Horace, _Ars Poetica_, 99.

453. _‘Not to admire,’ etc._ ‘Not to admire is all the art I know,’ quoted by Pope from Creech’s translation of Horace. See _Imitations of Horace_,