[27] See note to Mitford’s Milton, vol. i., clii.[59] Not Horace Walpole’s opinion. ‘Sir Joshua Reynolds has lent me Dr. Johnson’s Life of Pope, which Sir Joshua holds to be a chef d’oeuvre. It is a most trumpery performance, and stuffed with all his crabbed phrases and vulgarisms, and much trash as anecdotes.’—Letters, vol. viii., p. 26.[65] Howell’s State Trials, vol. xvii., p. 159.[76] In Oxford Essays for 1858.[79] Lectures and Essays on University Subjects: Lecture on Literature.[101] “The late Mr. Carlyle was a brute and a boor.”—The World, October 29th, 1884.[102] In the first edition, by a strange and distressing freak of the imagination, I took the ‘old struggler’ out of Lockhart and put her into Boswell.[117] Anyone who does not wish this story to be true, will find good reasons for disbelieving it stated in Mr. Napier’s edition of Boswell, vol. iv., p. 385.[159] All the difficulties connected with this subject will be found collected, and somewhat unkindly considered, in Mr. Dilke’s Papers of a Critic, vol. ii. The equity draughtsman will be indisposed to attach importance to statements made in a Bill of Complaint filed in Chancery by Lord Verney against Burke fourteen years after the transaction to which it had reference, in a suit which was abandoned after answer put in. But, in justice to a deceased plaintiff, it should be remembered that in those days a defendant could not be cross-examined upon his sworn answer.[178] Critical Miscellanies, vol. iii., p. 9.[189] ‘I will answer you by quoting what I have read somewhere or other, in Dionysius Halicarnassensis I think, that history is philosophy teaching by examples.’ See Lord Bolingbroke’s Second Letter on the Study and Use of History.[204] The Works of Charles Lamb. Edited, with notes and introduction, by the Rev. Alfred Ainger. Three volumes. London: 1883-5.[218] See Life of Emerson, by O. W. Holmes.[221] The institution referred to was the Eucharist.[244] Yet in his essay On Londoners and Country People we find Hazlitt writing: ‘London is the only place in which the child grows completely up into the man. I have known characters of this kind, which, in the way of childish ignorance and self-pleasing delusion, exceeded anything to be met with in Shakespeare or Ben Jonson, or the Old Comedy.’[255] This passage was written before Mr. Browning’s ‘Parleyings’ had appeared. Christopher is now ‘a person of importance,’ and needs no apology.[256] The Prelude, p. 55.