worth's face is his idea of physiognomical perfection, that one of his friends, on seeing it, exclaimed, 'At the gallows-deeply affected by his deserved fate-yet determined to die like a man;' and if you saw the picture, you would admire the criticism." "Life and Correspondence," II, 238.

His manner of reading. See p. 295.

a man of no mark. 1 "Henry IV," iii, 2, 45.

P. 199. He finds fault with Dryden's description. Hazlitt adopted this criticism in his lecture "On Pope and Dryden."

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P. 200. Titian (c. 1477-1576), the great Venetian painter. Chaucer. Wordsworth's modernizations of Chaucer are The Prioress's Tale," "The Cuckoo and the Nightingale," and a part of "Troilus and Cressida."

a tragedy.

'The Borderers" was written in 1795-96 but not published till 1842. The quotation which follows is from Act iii, 1, 405, and should read:

"Action is transitory-a step, a blow,

The motion of a muscle-this way or that

'Tis done, and in the after-vacancy
We wonder at ourselves like men betrayed:
Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark,
And shares the nature of infinity."

Wordsworth quoted these lines after the dedication to "The White Doe of Rylstone" and later added a note: "This and the five lines that follow were either read or recited by me more than thirty years since, to the late Mr. Hazlitt, who quoted some expressions in them (imperfectly remembered) in a work of his published several years ago."

P. 201. Let observation. Cf. De Quincey's "Rhetoric" (Works, ed. Masson, X, 128): "We recollect a little biographic sketch of Dr. Johnson, published immediately after his death, in which, among other instances of desperate tautology, the author quotes the wellknown lines from the Doctor's imitation of Juvenal-' Let observation,' etc., and contends with some reason that this is saying in effect, Let observation with extensive observation observe mankind extensively.'" Coleridge somewhere makes the same remark. Drawcansir. A character in The Rehearsal" by the Duke of Buckingham.

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"Let petty kings the names of Parties know:

Where'er I am, I slay both friend and foe." v, I. Walton's Angler. In the fifth lecture of the "English Poets"

Hazlitt writes: "Perhaps the best pastoral in the language is that prose-poem, Walton's Complete Angler. That well-known work has a beauty and romantic interest equal to its simplicity, and arising out of it. In the description of a fishing-tackle, you perceive the piety and humanity of the author's mind. It is to be doubted whether Sannazarius's Piscatory Eclogues are equal to the scenes described by Walton on the banks of the river Lea. He gives the feeling of the open air: we walk with him along the dusty roadside, or repose on the banks of a river under a shady tree; and in watching for the finny prey, imbibe what he beautifully calls 'the patience and simplicity of poor honest fishermen.' We accompany them to their inn at night, and partake of their simple, but delicious fare; while Maud, the pretty milkmaid, at her mother's desire, sings the classical ditties of the poet Marlow; Come live with me, and be my love.'"

Paley, William (1743-1805), a noted theologian. Cf. “On the Clerical Character" in "Political Essays" (Works, III, 276): “This same shuffling divine is the same Dr. Paley, who afterwards employed the whole of his life, and his moderate second-hand abilities, in tampering with religion, morality, and politics,-in trimming between his convenience and his conscience,-in crawling between heaven and earth, and trying to cajole both. His celebrated and popular work on Moral Philosophy, is celebrated and popular for no other reason, than that it is a somewhat ingenious and amusing apology for existing abuses of any description, by which any thing is to be got. It is a very elaborate and consolatory elucidation of the text, that men should not quarrel with their bread and butter. It is not an attempt to show what is right, but to palliate and find out plausible excuses for what is wrong. It is a work without the least value, except as a convenient commonplace book or vade mecum, for tyro politicians and young divines, to smooth their progress in the Church or the State. This work is a text-book in the University its morality is the acknowledged morality of the House of Commons." See also Coleridge's opinion of Paley on p. 288.

Bewick, Thomas (1753-1828), a well-known wood-engraver. Waterloo, Antoine (1609?-1676?), a French engraver, painter, and etcher.

Rembrandt, Harmans van Rijn (1606-1669), Dutch painter, whose mastery of light and shade was the object of Hazlitt's special admiration.

P. 202. He hates conchology, etc. See the lecture "On the Living

Poets": "He hates all science and all art; he hates chemistry, he hates conchology; he hates Voltaire; he hates Sir Isaac Newton; he hates wisdom; he hates wit; he hates metaphysics, which he says are unintelligible, and yet he would be thought to understand them; he hates prose; he hates all poetry but his own; he hates the dialogues in Shakespeare; he hates music, dancing, and painting; he hates Rubens, he hates Rembrandt; he hates Raphael, he hates Titian; he hates Vandyke; he hates the antique; he hates the Apollo Belvidere; he hates the Venus of Medicis."

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P. 205. and thank. Cf. Comus," 176: "In wanton dance they praise the bounteous Pan."

a mind reflecting.

See p. 35 and n.

dark rearward. Cf. "Tempest," i, 2, 50: 'In the dark backward and abysm of time."

P. 206. That which was. " Antony and Cleopatra," iv, 14, 9. quick, forgetive. 2" Henry IV," iv, 3, 107.

what in him is weak. Cf. "Paradise Lost," I, 22: "What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support."

P. 207. and by the force. Cf. "Macbeth," iii, 5, 28: "As by the strength of their illusion Shall draw him on to his confusion." rich strond. "Faërie Queene," III, iv, 18, 29, 34.

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goes sounding. "Hazlitt seems to have had a hazy recollection of two passages in Chaucer's Prologue. In his essay on 'My First Acquaintance with Poets,' he says, the scholar in Chaucer is described as going "sounding on his way," and in his Lectures on the English Poets he says, 'the merchant, as described in Chaucer, went on his way sounding always the increase of his winning."' The scholar is not described as 'sounding on his way,' but Chaucer says of him, 'Souninge in moral vertu was his speche,' while the merchant, though 'souninge alway th' encrees of his winning,' is not described as going on his way. Wordsworth has a line ('Excursion,' Book III), 'Went sounding on a dim and perilous way,' hut it seems clear that Hazlitt thought he was quoting Chaucer." WallerGlover, IV, 412.

P 306 us nothings. "Coriolanus." ii, 2, 8L

C. Over's "Grongar Hill." : "ull

Suning atin supreme lominion. Gray's Progress of Poesy."

n the Death of Chatterton," writ

At Camornige Coleridge won the

Browne ovid Medar ter a firees Die n 1712' Waller-Glover. At teoptidi. A Londen school winch Leigh Hunt and Lumo utenvers loout 'he same time is Cleruge. The former has ten .11, wall you reference to Cierrige, n us Reccilections of

as "the thrice noble, chaste, and virtuous, but again somewhat fantastical and original-brained, generous Margaret Newcastle." Clarke, Samuel (1675-1729), English theologian of latitudinarian principles.

South, Robert (1634-1716), controversial writer and preacher. Tillotson, John (1630-1694), a popular theological writer of rationalistic tendency.

Leibnitz's Pre-established Harmony. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz (1646-1716), a German philosopher, represented the world as consisting of an infinite number of independent substances or monads related to each other in such a way (by the pre-established harmony) as to form one universe. Cf. Coleridge's "Destiny of Nations," 38 ff.:

"Others boldlier think

That as one body seems the aggregate
Of atoms numberless, each organized;
So by a strange and dim similitude
Infinite myriads of self-conscious minds
Are an all-conscious spirit, which informs
With absolute ubiquity of thought
(His own eternal self-affirming act!)
All his involved Monads, that yet seem

With various province and apt agency

Each to pursue its own self-centering end."

P. 210, n. And so by many. "Two Gentlemen of Verona," ii, 7, 30. P. 211. hortus siccus [dry garden] of Dissent.

Burke's "Reflec

tions on the French Revolution," Works, ed. Bohn, II, 287.

John Huss (1373?-1415), Bohemian reformer and martyr. Jerome of Prague, a follower of Huss who was burnt for heresy in 1416.

Socinus. Fausto Paulo Sozzini (1539-1604), an Italian theologian who sought to simplify the doctrine of the Trinity.

John Zisca (1370?-1424), a leader of the extreme Hussite party. Neal's History. Daniel Neal (1648-1743) published his “History of the Puritans" 1732-38.

Calamy, Edmund (1671-1732) published an "Account of the Ministers, Lecturers, Masters and Fellows of Colleges, and Schoolmasters who were Ejected or Silenced after the Restoration of 1660" (1702 and 1713).

Spinoza, Baruch (1632-1677), a Dutch philosopher of Jewish parentage, the chief representative of Pantheism, "the doctrine of