PAGE 69. Rehearsal. The Duke of Buckingham's (1628-1687) The Rehearsal, first published in 1672. Knight of the Burning Pestle. Written about 1611 and published in 1613. Sir Robert Howard. The Committee, by Sir Robert Howard (1626-1698), was produced in 1662. Thomas Knight's The Honest Thieves, an adaptation, was acted at Covent Garden in 1797. "Mitigated into courtiers [companions], etc. Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (Select Works, ed. Payne, 11. 90). The great bed of Ware. Referred to by Shakespeare (Twelfth Night, Act m. Sc. 2), and now at Rye House. LECTURE IV. ON WYCHERLEY, CONGREVE, VANBRUGH, AND FARQUHAR Burke, 70. Graceful ornament, etc. Nobility is a graceful ornament,' etc. Reflections on the Revolution in France (Select Works, ed. Payne, 11. 164). Waller's Sacharissa. Lady Dorothy Sidney, eldest daughter of the second Earl of Leicester. Wycherley, etc. William Wycherley (1640 ?-1715), William Congreve (16701730), Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726), and George Farquhar (1678-1707). Leigh Hunt in 1840 published an edition of the dramatic works of all these writers, with biographical and critical notices. With this lecture compare Lamb's famous essay 'On the Artificial Comedy of the last Century,' contributed to The London Magazine, April 1822. 71. 'Whose jewels, etc. Collins's Ode, The Manners, 55-6. In the dedication of one of his plays. Probably The Way of the World, though the dedication hardly bears out Hazlitt's account of it. Love for Love. 1695. The Way of the World. 72. 'I never valued, etc. 1700. See A View of the English Stage, ante, p. 278. Ibid. Act 11. Sc. 7. The short scene with Trapland. Ibid. Act 1. Sc. 5. 'More misfortunes,' etc. Ibid. Act 1. Sc. 9. "Sisters every way.' Ibid. Act 1. Sc. 9. "Nay, if you come to that,' etc. Ibid. The Old Bachelor, brought out in January, 1692-3; The Double Dealer, in November 1693. "Dying Ned Careless.' 'Love's thrice reputed 73. Ah! idle creature. 'Like Phoebus,' etc. The Double Dealer, Act iv. Sc. 9. [repured] nectar? Troilus and Cressida, Act in. Sc. 2. "Come then, etc. Pope, Moral Essays, Epistle 11., 17-20. If there's delight,' etc. The Way of the World, Act 111. Sc. 12. Beauty the lover's gift,' etc. 74. 'Nature's own sweet, etc. Ibid. Act 11. Sc. 5. Twelfth Night, Act 1. Sc. 5. 'Wild wit, etc. Gray, Ode On a distant Prospect of Eton College, 46. 'Blazons herself. 'Thou divine nature, how thyself thou blazon'st In these two princely boys!' Cymbeline, Act IV. Sc. 2. PAGE 74. Mrs. Abington's Millamant. Frances Abington (1737-1815) practically retired from the stage in 1790, though she re-appeared for a season as late "He's but his half-brother. The Way of the World, Act 1. Sc. 6. 75. The description of the ruins, etc. The Mourning Bride, Act 11. Sc. 3. For Johnson's praise of this passage see Boswell's Life (ed. G. B. Hill, 11. 85). 'Be every day,' etc. The Mourning Bride, Act 1. Sc. 3. 76. Bolingbroke's entry into London. Richard II., Act v. Sc. 2. Country Wife. Produced in 1672,or 1673, published in 1675, this play was partly founded on Molière's L'École des Femmes and L'École des Maris. Agnes. In Molière's L'Ecole des Femmes. 77. Moody. In Garrick's adaptation The Country Girl (1766). 'With him a wit,' etc. 'A wit to me is the greatest title in the world.' Country Wife, Act 1. Sc. 1. The The Plain Dealer. Produced in 1674, published in 1677. The passage in which Wycherley refers to The Country Wife is in Act II. Sc. 1. 78. A discipline of humanity. Bacon's Essays, 'Of Marriage and Single Life.' 'Go! You're a censorious ill woman.' 'Let us begone from this censorious ill woman.' The Plain Dealer, Act v. Sc. 1. The Gentleman Dancing Master. Produced about 1671, published in 1673. Love in a Wood. Produced in 1671. It was Wycherley's first play. 79. Had I the tediousness, etc. Much Ado about Nothing, Act III. Sc. 5. The treatment he received from Pope. See Elwin and Courthope's edition of Pope's Works, vol. v. 73-5. Wycherley's letters to Pope are printed in Appendix I. to that volume, The Provoked Wife. Produced by Betterton and published in 1697. The Relapse. Produced and published in 1697. 80. The Confederacy. Produced and published in 1705. This last scene. The Confederacy, Act 1. Sc. 2. 81. It does somewhat smack.' Cf. My father did something smack.' The Merchant of Venice, Act 11. Sc. 2. Old Palmer. See ante, p. 388. 82. The best company in the world. The Man of Mode, Act iv. Sc. 3. "Now, for my part, etc. The Relapse, Act v. Sc. 5. 'Let loose the greyhound, etc. See Ibid. Act 11. Sc. 3. 83. It's well they've got me a husband, etc. Ibid. 84. A devilish girl at the bottom.' The Confederacy. Act 11. Sc. 1. "Proud to be at the head, etc. See ante, note to p. 36. Garrick's favourite part. A portrait of Garrick as Sir John Brute, by Zoffany, is in the Garrick Club. The drunken scene. See Act IV. Scenes 1 and 3 of The Provoked Wife. When the play was revived in 1725 Vanbrugh himself changed Sir John Brute's disguise, and made him appear before the justice in his wife's 'short cloak and sack.' "Hair-breadth 'scapes.' Othello, Act 1. Sc. 3. 'Any relish of salvation. Hamlet, Act 11. Sc. 3. 85. O'erstep the modesty of nature. Ibid. Act 111. Sc. 2. 'God Almighty's gentlemen.' Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, Part I. 645. duced in 1700. PAGE 85. Mr. Burke's courtly and chivalrous observation. "That chastity of honour.. under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.' Reflections on the Revolution in France (Select Works, ed. Payne, 11. 89). 86. Now, dear madam, etc. Sir Harry Wildair, Act iv. Sc. 2. 88. The dialogue between Cherry and Archer. See The Beaux' Stratagem (produced 1707), Act II. Sc. 3. 89. The Recruiting Officer. 1706. Catastrophe of this play. See Farquhar's Dedication. Love and a Bottle, 1699; The Twin Rivals, 1702. Farquhar's Letters. Originally published in 1702 under the title of 'Love and Business.' Dennis's Remarks, etc. Dennis's Remarks upon Cato appeared in 1713. His View of the English Stage. Jeremy Collier's Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage (1697-8). 90. 'Shews vice, etc. Cf. To show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image.' Hamlet, Act 111. Sc. 2. "Denote a foregone conclusion. Othello, Act 11. Sc. 3. Colley Cibber's Life, etc. Cf. the second essay On Actors and Acting' in 91. Let no rude hand,' etc. Wordsworth, Ellen Irwin, St. 7. 'Die and leave the world no copy.' Twelfth Night, Act 1. Sc. 5. LECTURE V. ON THE PERIODICAL ESSAYISTS The proper study, etc. Pope, Essay on Man, 11. 2. Comes home to the business, etc. Bacon, dedication of the Essays. "Quicquid agunt homines, etc. These words of Juvenal (Sat. 1. 85-6) formed the motto of the first 40 numbers of The Tatler. 'Holds the mirror, etc. Hamlet, Act 111. Sc. 2. The act [art] and practic part, etc. Henry V., Act 1. Sc. I. (1533-1592), were 92. The web of our life, etc. All's Well that Ends Well, Act IV. Sc. 3. Pope, Moral Essays, 1. 87-8. De la Sagesse, the chief work of Montaigne's friend Pierre Charron (15411603), appeared in 1601. 94. Pereant isti,' etc. Ælius Donatus, St. Jerome, Commentary on Ecclesiastes, Cap. I. Charles Cotton. Cotton's translation of Montaigne was published in three "The book in the world, etc. Cotton's translation was dedicated to George PAGE William Temple's (1628-1699) essays entitled Miscellanea were published in 1680 and 1692; Lord Shaftesbury's (1671-1713) Moralists in 1709, and Characteristics in 1711. 94. Note. Nam quodcumque, etc. Lucretius, III. 752-3. 95. Macbeth, Act 111. Sc. I. "The perfect spy o' th' time. The Tatler. The first number of the Tatler appeared on April 12, 1709, the last on January 2, 1711. The papers were re-issued in two forms, one in 8vo., one in 12mo., in 1710-11. Nearly the whole of this paragraph and the next is taken from an essay in The Examiner (March 5, 1815), reprinted in The Round Table. See vol. 1. pp. 7-10, and the notes thereon. 96. Note. No. 86, not No. 125, of The Tatler. Mr. Lilly's shop-windows. Charles Lillie, the perfumer's at the corner of Will Estcourt or Tom Durfey. Richard Estcourt (1668-1712), actor and 97. The Spectator. The Spectator ran from March 1, 1711, to December 6, 1712, and from June 18, 1714, to December 20, 1714. The collected edition appeared in 8 vols., 1712-15. 98. "The whiteness of her hand. She has certainly the finest hand of any woman in the world.' The Spectator, No. 113. 'He has a widow in his line of life. The Spectator, No. 130. His falling asleep in church, etc. The Spectator, No. 112. John Williams should be one John Matthews.' 99. The Guardian. March 12, 1713, to October 1713. Of the 176 numbers Steele contributed 82, and Addison 53, papers. 100. The Rambler. March 20, 1749-50, to March 14, 1752. 'Give us pause.' Hamlet, Act II. Sc. 1. 101. "The elephant, etc. Paradise Lost, IV. 345-7. 102. If he were to write, etc. Boswell's Life of Johnson (ed. G. B. Hill), 11. 231. Abused Milton and patronised Lauder. See Boswell's Life of Johnson (ed. G. B. Hill), 1. 228-31. 103. The king of good fellows, etc. Burns, Auld Rob Morris, 1. 2. 'Inventory of all he said.' Cf.‘And ta'en an inventory of what they are.' Ben Jonson, The Alchemist, Act 111. Sc. 2. Does he wind, etc. Boswell's Life of Johnson (ed. G. B. Hill), 11. 260. If that fellow Burke, etc. Ibid. 11. 450. What, is it you, etc. Ibid. 1. 250. Now I think I am,' etc. Ibid. 11. 362. His quitting the society, etc. Ibid. 1. 201. His dining with Wilkes. Ibid. 11. 64 et seq. His sitting with the young ladies. Ibid. 11. 120. His carrying the unfortunate victim, etc. Ibid. iv. 321. 104. An act which realises the parable of the good Samaritan. Sergeant Talfourd, in his account of these Lectures, speaks of the insensibility of the bulk of the audience, and adds: 'He [Hazlitt] once had a more edifying advantage over them. He was enumerating the humanities which endeared Dr. Johnson to his mind, and at the close of an agreeable catalogue mentioned as last and noblest "his carrying the poor victim of disease and dissipation on his back through Fleet Street," at which a titter arose from some who were struck by the picture as ludicrous, and a murmur from others who deemed the allusion unfit for ears polite : he paused for an instant, and then added, in his sturdiest and most impressive manner-"an act which realizes the VOL. VIII. 21 497 PAGE parable of the Good Samaritan"-at which his moral, and his delicate 104. "Where they, etc. Gray's Elegy, The Epitaph. The Adventurer. Nov. 7, 1752, to March 9, 1754. John Hawkesworth The World. Jan. 4, 1753, to Dec. 30, 1756. The Connoisseur. Jan. 31, 1754, to Sept. 30, 1756. One good idea, etc. Hazlitt referrs to a paper by Edward Moore which " Go about to cozen, etc. Merchant of Venice, Act 11. Sc. 9. The Persian Letters. Lord Lyttelton's Letters from a Persian in England to his "The bonzes, etc. The Citizen of the World, Letter x. 105. Edinburgh. We are positive, etc. Ibid. Letter v. Beau Tibbs. Ibid. Letters XXIX., LIV., LV., and LXXI. The Lounger and The Mirror. The Mirror appeared in Edinburgh from Jan. La Roche. The Mirror, Nos. 42, 43, and 44. Le Fevre. Tristram Shandy, vi. chaps. 6 et seq. The Man of the World. By Henry Mackenzie (1745-1831), published in 1773. Julia de Roubigné. Published in 1777. Rosamond Gray. See Lamb's Poems, Plays, and Essays, ed. Ainger, Notes to The Man of Feeling. Published in 1771. LECTURE VI. ON THE ENGLISH NOVELISTS The whole of this Lecture down to the end of the paragraph on p. 125 is taken with but few variations from an article in The Edinburgh Review for Feb. 1815, on 'Standard Novels and Romances,' ostensibly a review of Madame D'Arblay's The Wanderer. PAGE 106. Be mine to read, etc. Gray, in a letter to Richard West, April 1742 (Letters, ed. Tovey, 1. 97). "Something more divine in it. Hazlitt is perhaps recalling a passage in Bacon's Advancement of Learning (11. iv. 2): So as poesy serveth and conferreth to delectation, magnanimity, and morality, . . . it may seem deservedly to have some participation of divineness,' etc. 107. Fielding in speaking, etc. Joseph Andrews, Book 11. chap. 1. The description... given by Mr. Burke. Reflections on the Revolution in France Echard' On the Contempt of the Clergy.' John Eachard's (1636?-1697) The Worthy of all acceptation. 1 Timothy, 1. 15. The Lecture which Lady Booby reads, etc. Joseph Andrews, Book iv. chap. 3. I |