ON THE CONDUCT OF LIFE, ETC.

Published in Literary Remains, from which it is here reprinted. See Mr. W. C. Hazlitt's Memoirs (1867), 1. 16, where the date of the essay is fixed as 1822, when Hazlitt's son was ten years old.

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425. "The salt of the earth. S. Matthew v. 13.

According to your own dignity, etc. Cf. Hamlet, Act II. Sc. 2. 428. How shall we part,' etc. Cf. Paradise Lost, XI. 282-5.

"The study of the Classics, etc. See vol. 1. (The Round Table) p. 4 and notes. 431. Practique, etc. Henry V., Act 1. Sc. 1.

435. We hunt the wind,' etc. See Don Quixote, Part I. Book 11. chap. xiii. "Quit, quit,' etc. Cf. Suckling's Song, Why so pale and wan, fond lover?'

BELIEF, WHETHER VOLUNTARY?

Published in Literary Remains (from which it is here printed) and in Winterslow. 'Thy wish, etc. 2 Henry IV., Act iv. Sc. 5.

Note. Cf. ante, p. 317.

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441. Blown about, etc. Cf. Ephesians iv. 14.

"Infinite agitation of wit.' Bacon, The Advancement of Learning, Book 1.
iv. 5.

Sir Isaac Newton, etc. Newton published Observations on the Prophecies of
Daniel and the Apocalypse of St. John (1733), and Napier of Merchiston A
Plaine Discovery of the whole Revelation of St. John (1594).

442. Masterless passion,' etc. Cf. The Merchant of Venice, Act IV. Sc. I.
'Fear,' etc. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act v. Sc. 1.

443. January and May. See Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, "The Merchant's Tale.' 444. A good remark in 'Vivian Grey. See Book Iv. chap. v.

DEFINITION OF WIT

Published in Literary Remains from which it is here reprinted. Cf. the essay 'On Wit and Humour' in vol. VIII. (English Comic Writers) pp. 5-30.

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445. 'Wherein,' etc. See vol. viii. pp. 18-19.

"The squandering glances, etc. As You Like it, Act 11. Sc. 7.

446. Revive, etc. Quoted elsewhere from Scott.

448. Foregone conclusion. Othello, Act II. Sc. 3.

'Skin,' etc. Cf. Hamlet, Act . Sc. 4.

449. In cut and dye,' etc. Hudibras, I. 1. 243-4.

"The house, etc.

450. Turned from black "Like jewels, etc.

Misquoted from Swift's Vanbrugh's House.
to red. Hudibras, II. 11. 32.

451. Pray lend me, etc. 453. A forked radish.'

Collins, Ode, The Manners, 55.

Farquhar, The Beaux Stratagem, Act v. Sc. 4. 2 Henry IV., Act ш. Sc. 2.

PERSONAL POLITICS

Published in Literary Remains, where the author's son says that it was written during my father's last illness, immediately after the French Revolution of 1830.' The essay, which must have been written after the Three Days' (see post, p. 461, note) is here reprinted from Literary Remains.

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456. Ay, every inch a King!' King Lear, Act Iv. Sc. 6.

Cooped, etc. Cf. Macbeth, Act II. Sc. 4.

Himself again. Richard III. (Cibber's version), Act v. Sc. 3.

458. Solely, etc. Macbeth, Act 1. Sc. 5.

459.

Shall be in him,' etc. Cf. Othello, Act II. Sc. 3. "Smile, etc. Cf. Hamlet, Act 1. Sc. 5.

"Ever strong, etc. King John, Act ш. Sc. 1.

460. The late King. George iv. died on June 26, 1830.

461. Let him go where he chooses. Charles x. arrived in England on Aug. 17,

1830.

Note. The Revolution of the Three Days. This began on July 27, 1830.

EMANCIPATION OF THE JEWS

This paper was printed in Leigh Hunt's The Tatler for March, 1831 (vol. 11.), and also, separately, in pamphlet form. Mr. Bertram Dobell kindly showed to the Editors a copy of this pamphlet in his possession which bore the following (anonymous) marginal note: Written by Hazlitt, and a little altered by Mr. Basil Montagu-Mr. Isaac Goldsmid caused this little tract to be written, and defrayed all the expenses of authorship, printing, etc. It was the last production, I think, of Hazlitt's pen.' From a proof in the Editors' possession it is clear that the essay was sent by Hazlitt's son to The Daily News and set up in type in 1849, but it seems never to have been published by that journal. The essay is here reprinted from the pamphlet. The Tatler and The Daily News proof show only trifling typographical variations. It will be remembered that Macaulay's maiden speech (April 5, 1830) was in favour of a bill for the removal of Jewish disabilities. The emancipation of the Jews was not effected till 1858.

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461. 'We have reformed,' etc. Cf. Hamlet, Act II. Sc. 2.

464. And pure religion,' etc. Wordsworth, Sonnet, Written in London, September

1802.

ON THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATH

Fraser's Magazine for January 1831 contains an article on Capital Punishment in which the author introduces an extract from an essay by Hazlitt on the same subject. The extract is thus introduced: "It forms part of an essay which was written a few years ago by the late W. Hazlitt, at the request of a society then existing in London for obtaining a repeal of that formidable law, and seems to contain pretty much the sum of what might be brought forward against that punishment by a philosophical reasoner. It has never yet been published.'

Hazlitt's essay has not been discovered, and this rather obscure fragment is reprinted from Fraser's Magazine.

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466. Beccaria. Cesare, Marchese de Beccaria (1735 ?-1794), whose famous work, On Crimes and Punishments, appeared in 1764.

"It is not the intensity, etc.

Cf. Beccaria, chap. xxviii.

"Crimes are more effectually prevented, etc. Ibid. chap. xxvii.

470. In Mr. Bentham's phrase. See (e.g) Theory of Legislation, Part III. chap. vi. Note. For Burgh's book see vol. iv. (Reply to Malthus), p. 85 et seq. and

notes.

ADDENDA TO THE NOTES IN VOLS. I.-XI.

VOL. I.

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3. The miser robs himself, etc. Cf. Joseph Andrews, Book iv. chap. vii.

23. Because on earth, etc. See vol. x., note to p. 63.

52. "A mistress, etc. Goldsmith, The Traveller, 152.

57. Pure, etc. Dryden, Persius, Sat. 11. 1. 133.

68. Two happy things,' etc. The Tatler (No. 40) quotes the epigram thus:

'In marriage are two happy things allowed,
A wife in wedding-sheets, and in a shroud.
How can a marriage state then be accursed,
Since the last day's as happy as the first?'

85. Painting was jealous,' etc. Vasari records a similar saying (Lives, ed. Blashfield and Hopkins, 1897, vol. iv. p. 218).

105. In that first garden,' etc. Cf. In that first garden of our simpleness." Daniel, Hymen's Triumph, 1. 1.

112.

"And visions, etc. This couplet, a favourite quotation of Hazlitt's, occurs in a letter from Gray to Horace Walpole (Letters, ed. Tovey, 1. 7-8). The lines are apparently a translation (by Gray) of Virgil, Æneid, vi. 282-84. 135. 'Heaves no sigh, etc. See vol. v., note to p. 30.

139. The new Patent Blacking. Cf. Moore's Parody of a Celebrated Letter, 94-6. 391. The word,' etc. Cf. 2 Henry IV., III. 2.

292. Go, go,' etc. Cf. Wycherley, The Plain Dealer, v. 1.

427. Turnspit of the King's kitchen. See vol. XII. (Fugitive Writings), p. 291 and

note.

VOL. II.

310. Both living and loving.' Lamb's version of Thekla's Song in The Piccolo

mini. See Coleridge's Poetical Works, ed. J. D. Campbell, p. 648.

311. Winged wound? Dryden, The Hind and the Panther, 1. 6.

347. Who had been beguiled,' etc. Leigh Hunt, The Story of Rimini, Canto 111. 363. Throws a cruel sunshine on a fool.' Armstrong, The Art of Preserving

Health, Book IV.

396. The man who bought Punch. See vol. xII. p. 353.

38. The Room over the way. See Cobbett's Weekly Political Register, Sept. 1817

(Selections, etc., v. 259).

41. St. Peter is well at Rome. Don Quixote, Part II. Book 111. chap. xli., and

45.

elsewhere.

"Lest the courtiers, etc. The Beggar's Opera, 11. 2.

60. One note day and night. Burke, Regicide Peace (Select Works, ed. Payne,

P. 51).

63. Which fear, etc. Cowper, The Task, 11. 325.

166.

In Philharmonia's undivided dale.' Cf. 'O'er peaceful Freedom's undivided dale. Coleridge, Monody on the Death of Chatterton, 140. 171. Unslacked of motion. See vol. iv. p. 42 and note.

174. Of whatsoever race,' etc. Cf. Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, 1. 100-103. "Meek mouths ruminant.' Cf. With ruminant meek mouths.' Leigh Hunt, The Story of Rimini, Canto 11.

239.

243. The Essay on 'The Effects of War and Taxes,' appeared also in The New Scots Magazine for Oct. 1818.

259. "Soul-killing lies,' etc. 268. Certain so wroth, etc.

Lamb, John Woodvil, Act 11.

Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, The Prologue, 451-2. 273. People of the nicest imaginations, etc. Cf. Swift, Thoughts on Various

Subjects..

284. Resemble the flies of a summer.

Cf. Men would become little better than

the flies of a summer.' Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (Select Works, ed. Payne, II. 112).

328. A new creation,' etc. Goldsmith, The Traveller, 296.

VOL. IV.

17. 'Sacro,' etc. Quoted in the notes to Junius. See notes to Letter xxxvi. 24. To elevate and surprise. The Duke of Buckingham's The Rehearsal, 1. 1. 44. "Your very nice people, etc. See ante, note to vol. 1. p. 273.

147. Where he picks clean teeth.' Cowper, The Task, 11. 627.

217.

'When he saw,' etc. Coleridge, Remorse, Act iv. Sc. 2. 220. Pingo in eternitatem.

A saying attributed to Zeuxis. See Sir Joshua Reynolds's

9. "And visions, etc.

VOL. V.

See ante, note to vol. 1. p. 112.

10. Obscurity,' etc. See vol. xi. p. 224 and note.

120. And that green wreath,' etc. Southey, Carmen Nuptiale, Proem, St. 9. 215. "A foot, etc. Cf. Donne, The Storm, 3-4.

277. Friar Onion. See Boccaccio, The Decameron, Sixth Day, Novel x.

280. That, like a trumpet, etc. Cf. Leigh Hunt, The Story of Rimini, Canto III. 345. The last of those fair clouds, etc. Cf. Wordsworth, The Excursion, vII.

1014-16.

372. For the note on Lord Dorset read Charles Sackville (1638-1706), sixth Earl of Dorset, author of "To all you ladies now on land,' included with other songs in Hazlitt's Select British Poets.

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23. Those suns and skies so pure.

93. The fair variety of things.'

VOL. VI.

Warton, Sonnet (1x.) to the River Lodon. Akenside, Pleasures of the Imagination, 1. 78.

94. A neighbouring Baronet. See vol. XII., note to p. 202. 96. Like life and death,' etc.

Cf. Lamb, John Woodvil, Act II.

106. The beautiful is vanished,' etc. Coleridge, The Death of Wallenstein, v. 1. 113. 'Like a faint shadow,' etc. Cf. The Faerie Queene, II. vii. 29.

152. Note. The worst, the second fall of man.' Cf. Windham, Speeches, 1. 311 (March 13, 1797).

·

156. To warn and scare.

Rev. Sneyd Davies, To the Honourable and Reverend F. C. (Dodsley, Collection of Poems, vi. 138).

189. The vine-covered hills, etc. in The Anti-Jacobin.

211.

Free from the Sirian star,' etc.

William Roscoe, Lines written in 1788, parodied

Beaumont and Fletcher, Philaster, Act v. Sc. 3. 218. It was out of all plumb,' etc. Tristram Shandy, Book III. chap. xii. 225.Stud of night-mares. Cf. 'I confess an occasional night-mare; but I do not, as in early youth, keep a stud of them.' Lamb, Essays of Elia (Witches, and other Night-Fears).

243. Tall, opaque words.' Hazlitt was perhaps quoting from himself. See

259.

vol. VIII. p. 257.

To angels 'twas most like.'

The Flower and the Leaf, St. 19.

308. Wild wit,' etc. Gray, Ode, On a Distant Prospect of Eton College.

317. As much again to govern it.' Essay on Criticism, 80-81:

This line is not Butler's, but Pope's. See An

"There are whom heav'n has blest with store of wit,
Yet want as much again to manage it.'

The couplet was changed in the 4to edition of 1743.

VOL. VII.

189. "Subtilised savages.' 'Nor as yet have we subtilised ourselves into savages.' Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (Select Works, ed. Payne, 11. 101).

273.

As a saving of cheese-parings,' etc. See Windham's Speeches, 1. 311 (March 13, 1797).

282. As if they thrilled,' etc. The Faerie Queene, 11. xii. 78.

VOL. VIII.

Tristram Shandy, Book 11. chap. xii.
The Faerie Queene, 1. vii. 30.

93. Not one of the angles,' etc. 164. Shines like Hesperus,' etc. 371. A singing face. Bombastes Furioso, Sc. 1. 437. Such were the joys,' etc.

Bickerstaffe, Love in a Village, 11. 1.

elsewhere quotes these words as from 'an

106. To dream and be an Emperour.' Cf. 'I am like a man that dreamt he was an Emperour.' Fletcher, The Spanish Curate, 11, 2.