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[69] Ibid., p. 337.

[70] Ibid., p. 340.

[71] ”On Shakespeare and Milton,” p. 109.

[72] ”The English Novelists,” VIII, 109.

[73] ”Thoughts on Taste,” XI, 463.

[74] ”On Criticism,” in _Table Talk_.

[75] Ibid.

[76] _Characters of Shakespeare_, ”Lear.”

[77] ”On Poetry in General,” p. 258.

[78] ”On Poetry in General,” p. 266.

[79] Hazlitt defends himself on the ground that ”the word has these three _distinct_ meanings in the English language, that is, it signifies the composition produced, the state of mind or faculty producing it, and, in certain cases, the subject-matter proper to call forth that state of mind.” _Letter to Gifford_, I, 396.

[80] ”On Poetry in General,” pp. 268-9.

[81] Ibid., p. 268.

[82] Those interested in the perennial discussion of the relation of poetry to verse or metre would do well to read the recent interesting contribution to the subject by Professor Mackail in his _Lectures on Poetry_ (Longmans, 1912).

[83] ”On the Causes of Popular Opinion,” XII, 320.

[84] Coleridge: _Table Talk_, Aug. 6, 1832.

[85] _Edinburgh Review_, Feb., 1816. The nature of Hazlitt's debt to Coleridge, Lamb and Schlegel is to some extent ill.u.s.trated in the notes to the present text.

[86] ”Whether Genius is Conscious of its Powers,” in _Plain Speaker_.

[87] Moore's _Letters and Journals_, May 21, 1821, III, 235.

[88] _Shakespeare's Madchen und Frauen_.

[89] Review of Schlegel's Lectures, Works, X, III.

[90] ”Poetry,” XII, 339.

[91] _Characters of Shakespeare's Plays_, ”Antony and Cleopatra.”

[92] Lowell: _Old English Dramatists_.

[93] _Lecture on the Age of Elizabeth_, ”On Beaumont and Fletcher,” V, 269.

[94] _Conversation of Northcote_, VI, 393.

[95] _Essays in English Literature_, Second Series. 159-161.