MAURICE MORGANN 221. Candide, chapters 9 and 15. 225. general criticism is uninstructive. Cf. Joseph Warton, Adventurer, No. 116: "General criticism is on all subjects useless and unentertaining; but it is more than commonly absurd with respect to Shakespeare, who must be accompanied step by step, and scene by scene, in his gradual developments of characters and passions," etc. 239. line 28. which. The original has who. 241. Oldcastle. 247, note. See Rowe, p. 5, and note. Be thus when thou art dead. Othello, v. 2. 18. 248. Barbarian. See notes on Voltaire, pp. 117, etc. Love's Labour lost. In his edition of L.L.L. (1768), Capell omitted fifteen lines from Biron's speech in Act iv., Sc. 3 (iv. 1 in his own edition, p. 54). He did not record the omission. 249. Nothing perishable about him except that very learning, etc. Cf. Edward Young, Conjectures on Original Composition, 1759, p. 81, and Hurd, Notes on Horace's Art of Poetry, line 286 (1757, i., pp. 213, 4): "Our Shakespear was, I think, the first that broke through this bondage of classical superstition. And he owed this felicity, as he did some others, to his want of what is called the advantage of a learned education." 251. Macbeth, i. 5. 18, 49; v. 5. 13; v. 3. 23. practicer of arts inhibited. Othello, i. 2. 78. 254, note. Shakespeare's magic, etc. Dryden, Prologue to the Tem pest, 1667, lines 19, 20. Hamlet, iii. 2. 147. Measure for Measure, ii. 2. 130. 258. miching malicho. 260. but a choleric word. 262. Cadogan, William (1711-1797), a fashionable London doctor, who published in 1771 a Dissertation on the Gout and on all Chronic Diseases, in which he held that gout is "a disease of our own acquiring" and "the necessary effect of intemperance." 267, note. For if the Jew. Merchant of Venice, iv. 1. 280. 269. Souls made of fire and children of the sun. Edward Young, The Revenge, v. 2. 270. just where youth ends. Cf. Paradise Lost, xi. 245, 246. 270. Old, cold, and of intolerable entrails. Merry Wives, v. 5. 161. Mrs. Montague. Two chapters in Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu's Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear (1769) deal with the first and second parts of Henry IV. She speaks of "the cowardly and braggart temper of Falstaffe" (p. 103), and says that "gluttony, corpulency, and cowardice are the peculiarities of Falstaffe's composition" (p. 107). 271. golden fool. Timon of Athens, iv. 3. 18. 277. Players... the worst judges of Shakespeare. Cf. Pope, Preface, p. 51. 285. line 27. attacked. The original has attached. The reprints of 1820 and 1825 read attached to. 303. He was shaked of a burning quotidian tertian. Henry V., ii. 1. 124, 91; ii. 3. 10. INDEX Addison, Joseph, xix, 86, 134, Adventurer, The, xix, xxxii, 347. Akenside, Mark, lv. Aleria, Bishop of, 158, 326. Ames, Joseph, 186, 199, 210, 335. Andromana, 181, 333. Aristophanes, 108, 319, 331. Aristotle, 32, 50, 51, 56, 251, 311. Arraignment of Paris, 206, 308. Bacon, Francis, Lord, 191. Bentley, Richard, 81, 111, 158, Bermuda Islands, 69, 314. 22. Betterton, Thomas, xii, xiv, xxxviii, Birch, Thomas, xlviii, lvii, 324. Blount, Pope, xxxviii. Boccaccio, 178, 332. Boisteau (Boaistuau), 210, 342. Burmann, Peter, 163, 326. Cooke, Thomas, 317. Butler, Samuel, 39, 169, 180, 309, Cooke, William, xxi. Copley, Anthony, 342. Corbet, Richard, 345. Corneille, Pierre, 37, 127, 322. 327, 334, 336, 338. Caxton, William, 183, 330, 336, Dacier, André, 18, 86, 105, 307. 337- Censor, The, xi. Cervantes, 166, 181, 328. Chapman, George, 175, 331. Chaucer, 53, 133, 138, 158, 183, 185, 324, 332, 335. Cicero, 34, 36, 53, 109, 194, 337. Clarke, Samuel, 320. Clopton, Family of, 70, 71. Poetical Dictionary, xxxviii. 144, 310. Daily Journal, The, xliv, xlvi. Daniel, Samuel, 176, 190, 331, 336. Davies, John, 176. Dares Phrygius, 53, 187, 312. Dekker, Thomas, 208, 337, 340. cised by Johnson, 117, 140; De Quincey, Thomas, xix. Double Falshood. See Greene. Douglas, Gawin, 176, 183, 188, Downes, John, Roscius Anglicanus, 66 307, 322. (Pope's sug- Drayton, Michael, 109, 167, 320, Dryden, John, xiii, etc.; opinion on Shakespeare's learning, xxii, Edward III., 212. Edwards, Thomas, 149, 319, 325. Eliot, John, 211, 344. Euripides, 40, 55, 164. Falkland, Lord, 14, 305, 306, 307. Fielding, Henry, xii, xxix, 322. 320. Fletcher, Lawrence, 68, 314. Gamelyn, Tale of, xxv, 133, 178, Gardiner, Stephen, 132. Gellius, Aulus, 178, 332. Gerard, Alexander, 322. Gildon, Charles, attitude to the |