Part I

, II. 201–6.

_‘Launched,’ etc._ _The Rape of the Lock_, II. 4.

_‘Strange that such difference,’ etc._ Byrom, ‘On the Feuds between Handel and Bononcini.’

506. _‘Let me not,’ etc._ _The Canterbury Tales_, The Clerke’s Tale, 880.

_‘Pope was not assuredly,’ etc._ The rest of the essay is quoted from a former paper ‘On the question whether Pope was a poet.’ See _ante_, pp. 431–2 and notes.

ON CONSISTENCY OF OPINION

Published with some omissions in _Winterslow_ (1850).

508. _‘Servetur ad imum,’ etc._ Horace, _Ars Poetica_, 126–7.

509. _‘It is the eye of childhood,’ etc._ _Macbeth_, Act II. Sc. 2.

_‘Where the treasure is,’ etc._ _S. Matthew_ vi. 21.

_‘To be wise,’ etc._ Cf. ‘Let it be virtuous to be obstinate.’ _Coriolanus_, V. 3.

_Mr._ ——. Northcote, no doubt, who told Haydon that he was so delighted with the _Catalogue_ that he ‘ordered a long candle and went to bed to read it in ecstasy.’ _Life of Haydon_ (ed. T. Taylor), I. 376.

511. _‘Sots,’ etc._ Pope, _An Essay on Man_, IV. 215.

_‘I had rather hear,’ etc._ Cf. _1 Henry IV._, Act III. Sc. 1.

_‘Amaze the very faculties,’ etc._ _Hamlet_, Act II. Sc. 2.

512. _Mr. Wordsworth has hardly, etc._ This passage, down to ‘Constitutional Association-monger’ (p. 513) was omitted from _Winterslow_.

_‘So small a drop,’ etc._ _Cymbeline_, Act IV. Sc. 2.

_Applied for an injunction, etc._ A hit at Southey. See vol. III. (_Political Essays_), pp. 192 _et seq._ and notes.

_One stroke of his prose-pen, etc._ Hazlitt probably refers to Wordsworth’s _Two Addresses to the Freeholders of Westmoreland_, published in 1818.

_‘The wreck of matter,’ etc._ Addison, _Cato_, v. I.

514. _Contra audentior ito._ _Æneid_, VI. 95.

_‘Whose genius,’ etc._ Cowper, _The Task_, The Garden, 255–6.

_‘Like a worm,’ etc._ Cf. _ante_, note to p. 506.

‘_There’s sympathy._’ _The Merry Wives of Windsor_, Act II. Sc. 1.

515. ‘_Ancestral voices._’ Coleridge, _Kubla Khan_, 29.

515. _‘He looks up with awe,’ etc._ Cf. Burke, _Reflections on the Revolution in France_ (_Select Works_, ed Payne, II. 101).

_‘I’ve heard of hearts unkind,’ etc._ Wordsworth, _Simon Lee_, 93–6.

_‘Every thing by turns,’ etc._ Cf. Dryden, _Absalom and Achitophel_, I. 548.

_A young student, etc._ This passage, to the end of the paragraph, was omitted in _Winterslow_. It would seem from the last sentence that Sir John Stoddart is referred to.

_‘Perpetual volley,’ etc._ Cf. ‘Arrowy sleet, skin-piercing volley.’ Cowper, _The Task_, The Winter Morning Walk, 140–1.

516. _—— always sets himself, etc._ The reference seems clearly to be to Northcote.

_‘Though truth be truth,’ etc._ Cf. _Othello_, Act I. Sc. 1.

517. _‘Pride elevates,’ etc._ Cf. ‘Hope elevates, and joy brightens his crest.’ _Paradise Lost_, IX. 633–4.

_‘From morn to noon,’ etc._ _Ibid._ I. 742–4.

518. _‘In all things,’ etc_. Cf. Burke’s Speech on Economical Reform (Feb. 11, 1780), _Works_, Bohn, II. 105.

_‘To have done,’ etc._ _Troilus and Cressida_, Act III. Sc. 3.

_‘With one consent,’ etc._ _Ibid._

‘_Like a fashionable host_,’ _Ibid._

519. _‘Noise,’ etc._ Cf. _Hamlet_, Act III. Sc. 2.

_‘Tell me your company,’ etc._ Cf. the well-known proverb quoted in _Don Quixote_,