‘Freezes his spirits up,’ etc. Cf. 2 Henry IV., Act I. Sc. 1.
341. Described so well, etc. In his speech on receiving the freedom of Plymouth, October 1823.
‘The golden round,’ etc. Cf. Richard II., Act III. Sc. 2.
‘And to call evil good,’ etc. Isaiah v. 20.
‘Revered and ruptured Ogden.’ For this famous phrase, used during the debates on the Indemnity Bill, 1818, see Hansard, XXXVII. 1026, and Stapleton’s Political Life of Canning, I. 86.
Rejected Addresses. By James and Horace Smith, published in 1812.
‘Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin.’ Republished (1801) from The Anti-Jacobin.
342. ‘To turn what is serious,’ etc. Cf. ‘What should be great, you turn to farce.’ Prior, The Ladle, 139.
Note. See The Three Trials of William Hone (1818, First Trial, pp. 38–9), where a verse of Jekyll’s parody is quoted from The Spirit of the Journals.
Note. ‘A wit’s a feather,’ etc. Pope, An Essay on Man, IV. 247–8.
ШКОЛА ДЕНДИ
Это эссе, ныне переизданное впервые, приписывается Хэзлитту г-ном У. К. Хэзлиттом («Мемуары» и т. д., I, xxix) и Айрлендом («Список сочинений Уильяма Хэзлитта и Ли Ханта», стр. 76). Рукопись, написанная рукой Хэзлитта, до сих пор существует.
343. Vivian Grey. Disraeli’s first novel, published 1826–7. The dedication was as follows: ‘To the best and greatest of men I dedicate these volumes. He, for whom it is intended, will accept and appreciate the compliment: those, for whom it is not intended, will—do the same.’
344. Long’s. A well-known hotel in Bond Street.
Almack’s. Assembly Rooms (now known as ‘Willis’s Rooms’), in King Street, St. James’s.
Mr. Martin’s bill, etc. Richard Martin’s (1754–1834) efforts on behalf of animals were bitterly opposed on all sides.
Mr. Croker, etc. ‘The Dulwich collection ... was quite as distant as Russell Square, though he did not profess to know exactly where Russell Square was.’ March 28, 1825. Hansard, New Series, XII. 1266.
345. Sir Sedley Clarendels, etc. In Camilla.
Meadowses. In The Wanderer.
346. ‘The Court,’ etc. Cf. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act III. Sc. 2.
Sayings and Doings. The first series appeared in 1824, the second in 1825 and the third in 1828.
348. Mr. Vivacity Dull. A character in Vivian Grey, said to represent Horace Twiss.
АКТЕРЫ И ПУБЛИКА
Эта и одиннадцать последующих статей из «The Examiner» 1828 года были включены в текст главным образом из-за сильных внутренних доказательств авторства Хэзлитта. Одна из статей подписана «W. H.», остальные не подписаны. В период, охватываемый этими эссе, появлялись и другие «Театральные обозреватели», подписанные «X» или «Q». Насколько известно редакторам, до сих пор не было известно, что Хэзлитт возобновил регулярную театральную критику так поздно, как в 1828 году, но они чувствуют, что не может быть разумных сомнений относительно его авторства этих двенадцати эссе.
349. Bate Dudley. Sir Henry Bate Dudley (1745–1824), the notorious clergyman and journalist discussed by Johnson and Boswell (Life, ed. G. B. Hill, IV. 296). He was for a time editor of The Morning Post.
‘Fall into misfortune.’ Cf. post, note to p. 533.
‘To tatters,’ etc. Hamlet, Act III. Sc. 2.
350. Who has praised Sir Walter, etc. The failure of Constable and of Ballantyne and Co., involving Scott’s financial ruin, had occurred in 1826.
A vulgar crim. con. In January 1825, a verdict of £800 was given against Kean in an action, Cox v. Kean, for criminal conversation. In consequence of this he was for a time ‘hooted from the stage.’
‘The spells,’ etc. Cf. Othello, Act I. Sc. 3.
If an actor is indeed six feet high, etc. Hazlitt probably refers to Conway. See vol. VIII. p. 200, and post, p. 361.
351. ‘The fiery soul,’ etc. Dryden Absalom and Achitophel, 156–8.
‘The envy,’ etc. Richard II., Act II. Sc. 1.
Madame Catalani. Angelica Catalani had retired from the stage in 1827.
It was some time since we had seen Mr. Kean’s Shylock, etc. This paragraph makes Hazlitt’s authorship of this Theatrical Examiner quite certain. Cf. vol. VIII. p. 179.
ФРАНЦУЗСКИЕ ПЬЕСЫ
352. Monsieur Perlet. Adrien Perlet (1795–1850), a well-known French comedian, who had made his first appearance in 1814.
‘Upturned eyes,’ etc. Cf. Romeo and Juliet, Act II. Sc. 2.
352. Madame Pasta. Cf. vol. VII. (The Plain Speaker), pp. 324 et seq.
‘A friend of ours,’ etc. See Patmore’s My Friends and Acquaintance (vol. III. pp. 32–5). According to Patmore, the following passage was intended by Hazlitt to form part of the Conversations with Northcote in The New Monthly Magazine, but was suppressed by the editor:—
‘He then asked me if I had seen anything of H——?[78] I said, yes; and that he had vexed me; for I had shown him some fine heads from the Cartoons, done about a hundred years ago (which appeared to me to prove that since that period those noble remains have fallen into a state of considerable decay), and when I went out of the room for a moment, I found the prints thrown carelessly on the table, and that he had got out a volume of Tasso, which he was spouting, as I supposed, to let me understand that I knew nothing of art, and that he knew a great deal about poetry.
‘I said I never heard him speak with enthusiasm of any painter or work of merit, nor show any love of art, except as a puffing-machine for him to get up into to blow a trumpet in his own praise. Instead of falling down and worshipping such names as Raphael and Michael Angelo, he is only considering how he may, by storm or stratagem, place himself beside them, on the loftiest seats of Parnassus, as ignorant country squires affect to sit with judges on the bench. He told me he had had a letter from Wilkie, dated Rome, with three marks of admiration, and that he had dated his answer “Babylon the Great,” with four marks of admiration. Stuff! Why must he always “out-Herod Herod?”[79] Why must the place where he is always have one note of admiration more than any other? He gave as his reasons, indeed, our river, our bridges, the Cartoons, and the Elgin Marbles—the two last of which, however, are not our own. H. should have been the boatswain of a man-of-war: he has no other ideas of glory than those which belong to a naval victory, or to vulgar noise and insolence; not at all as something in which the whole world may participate alike. I hate “this stamp exclusive and professional.”[80] He added that Wilkie gave a poor account of Rome, and seemed, on the whole, disappointed. He (Haydon) should not be disappointed when he went, for his expectations were but moderate. “Ay,” said Northcote, “that is like the speech of a little, crooked, conceited painter of the name of Edwards, who went to Italy with Romney and Humphreys, and when they looked round the Vatican, he turned round to Romney and said, ‘Egad, George, we’re bit.’”
‘I said that when I heard stories of this kind, of even clever men who seemed to have no idea or to take no interest except in what they themselves could do, it almost inclined me to be of Peter Pindar’s opinion, who pretended to prefer taste to genius: “Give me,” said he, “one man of taste, and I will find you twenty men of genius.” N. replied, “It is a pity you should be of that opinion, for all your acquaintances are great geniuses; and yet, I fancy, they have no admiration for anybody but themselves.’”
352. Sir William Curtis’s. Sir William Curtis (1752–1829), Lord Mayor of London (1795) and for long M.P. for the City.
353. ‘Our Cupid,’ etc. Cf. The Earl of Dorset’s song, Dorinda.
354. The age of Louis XIV., etc. Cf. a passage in vol. IX. (Notes of a Journey, etc.), p. 150.
354. ‘New manners,’ etc. Thomas Warton, Sonnet ‘Written in a Blank Leaf of Dugdale’s Monasticon.’
355. ‘Unmixed with baser matter.’ Hamlet, Act I. Sc. 5.
A certain happy-spirited writer. Leigh Hunt, no doubt, whose recently published Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries had created some sensation.
ФРАНЦУЗСКИЕ ПЬЕСЫ (продолжение)
Эта статья в «The Examiner» начинается с длинного редакционного пассажа, написанного в шутливом духе и восхваляющего предыдущую заметку о французских пьесах.
356. ‘That soul of pleasure,’ etc. Cf. Pope, Moral Essays, III. 306.
357. l. 15. Ariste. This should be Valère.
358. There is a credulous and unqualified assent, etc. Cf. a passage in vol. VIII. (English Comic Writers), p. 29, where almost the same words are used.
‘To the woods,’ etc. Quoted elsewhere by Hazlitt.
ТЕАТРЫ И СТРАСТНАЯ НЕДЕЛЯ
Эта статья подписана «W. H.»
358. ‘Because thou art virtuous,’ etc. Twelfth Night, Act II. Sc. 3.
359. ‘Seizing [tear] their pleasures,’ etc. Marvell, To his Coy Mistress.
360. Ranting Croly. The Rev. George Croly (1780–1860), a contributor to Blackwood’s Magazine, and to Jerdan’s Literary Gazette.
‘Stretched upon the rack,’ etc. Cf.
‘Than on the torture of the mind to lie
In restless ecstasy.’ Macbeth, Act III. Sc. 2.
‘All the natural ills [shocks], etc. Hamlet, Act III. Sc. 1.
‘To jest,’ etc. Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act V. Sc. 2.
361. ‘What is set down for them.’ Hamlet, Act III. Sc. 2.
ЧАРЛЬЗ КИН
362. Young Mr. Kean. Charles John Kean (1811?–1868), second son of Edmund Kean. He had made his first appearance at the opening of the Drury Lane season, October 1, 1827.
Lovers’ Vows. Mrs. Inchbald’s adaptation from Kotzebue (1798).
The Marquis of Douro. Arthur Richard (1807–1884), eldest son of the Duke of Wellington, afterwards second Duke.
363. We do not presume, etc. This adaptation of a passage from Burke’s A Letter to a Noble Lord (Works, Bohn, V. 114) is quoted elsewhere by Hazlitt.
The Dumb Savoyard. By Thompson, acted thirty-eight times.
364. Mrs. W. West. Mrs. W. West (1790–1876) who first appeared (as Miss Cooke) in London in 1812. She married William West in 1815.
Meggy Macgilpin. Maggy Macgilpin in O’Keeffe’s Highland Reel (1788).
Keeley. Robert Keeley (1793–1869). His height was five feet two inches.
365. ‘A man made after supper,’ etc. 2 Henry IV., Act III. Sc. 2.
‘Vice to be hated,’ etc. Cf. Pope, Essay on Man, II. 217–18.
366. Ecole des Veillards. By Casimir Delavigne (1823).
НЕКОТОРЫЕ ИЗ СТАРЫХ АКТЕРОВ
Эта заметка полна любимых цитат и настроений, которые Хэзлитт выражал в других местах. См. особенно Драматические эссе в томе VIII.
366. ‘Warbles,’ etc. L’ Allegro, 134.
‘Fierce extremes.’ Paradise Lost, II. 599.
The Invincibles. A musical farce, acted 34 times.
‘Our mind’s eye.’ Cf. Hamlet, Act I. Sc. 2.
‘Our heart’s core.’ Cf. Ibid. Act III. Sc. 2.
367. ‘Fancy’s midwife.’ Cf. ‘The fairies’ midwife.’ Romeo and Juliet, Act I. Sc. 4.
‘Gay creatures,’ etc. Comus, 299–301.
‘Tears,’ etc. Paradise Lost, I. 620.
368. ‘Mr. Kean’s Othello,’ etc. From The Times. See post, p. 406, and vol. VIII. p. 414 and notes.
‘With kindliest change.’ Paradise Lost, V. 336.
КОМПАНИЯ В ОПЕРЕ
369. Mr. Peake. Richard Brinsley Peake (1792–1847). The farce here noticed is called by Genest ‘Little Offerings.’
‘Crabbed age,’ etc. The Passionate Pilgrim, Stanza XII.
Miss Goward. Mary Ann Goward (1805?–1899), who afterwards became so well known as Mrs. Keeley. She married Keeley in 1829.
370. Madame Caradori. Madame Caradori-Allan (1800–1865), who made her début at the Italian Opera in London in 1822.
Mademoiselle Sontag. Henriette Sontag (1806–1854). She married Count Rossi in 1828 and retired from the stage till near the end of her life.
371. Brocard. Suzanne Brocard (1798–1855), whose first appearance at the Comédie Française was in 1817 and who retired in 1839.
372. Lord Byron and his Contemporaries. Cf. ante, note to p. 355.
‘The mob,’ etc. Pope, Imitations of Horace, Book II. Ep. I. 108.
ОПЕРА НИЩЕГО
373. ‘Vanity, chaotic Vanity.’ Hazlitt may have had in mind the lines in Romeo and Juliet (Act I. Sc. 1), ‘O heavy lightness! serious vanity! misshapen chaos!’
374. ‘Waste her sweetness,’ etc. Cf. Gray’s Elegy, 56.
Splenetic ‘[splenitive] and rash.’ Hamlet, Act V. Sc. 1.
Blanchard. William Blanchard (1769–1835), for long a member of the Covent Garden Company.
‘And when the date,’ etc. Butler, Hudibras, Part I. Canto 1. 285–6.
De Vere. By Robert Plumer Ward (1765–1846), published in 1827. It was supposed by some, though denied by the author, that De Vere was intended to represent Canning.
‘We have heard,’ etc. 2 Henry IV., Act III. Sc. 2.
375. Sir John Sylvester. Sir John Silvester (1745–1822), Recorder of London.
‘The thief,’ etc. Leviathan, Part I. Chap. 3.
A Race for Dinner. By G. H. B. Rodwell (1800–1852).
‘And Birnam wood,’ etc. Macbeth, Acts IV. and V.
The Poor Gentleman. By George Colman the Younger (1801).
375. ‘To advantage dressed.’ Pope, An Essay on Criticism, 297.
376. Miss Ellen Tree. Ellen Tree (1805–1880), who married Charles Kean in 1842. She was a younger sister of Mrs. Bradshaw, the actress and singer.
377. Miss Love. Emma Love, afterwards Mrs. Calcroft, had made her first appearance on the stage in 1817 at the English Opera House.
УКРОЩЕНИЕ СТРОПТИВОЙ И СКУПОЙ
377. ‘The lungs of others,’ etc. Cf. As You Like It, Act II. Sc. 7.
378. Mr. Wilkie failed, etc. See ante, p. 252.
‘Warble, warble.’ As You Like It, Act II. Sc. 5.
379. Mademoiselle Mars. For Mademoiselle Mars in ‘a sort of shadowy Catherine and Petruchio,’ see vol. IX. p. 151.
380. Ninette à la cour. By Charles Simon Favart (1710–1792).
381. Seraglio. An opera by Dimond, produced in 1827.
Charles the Second. By Howard Payne, produced in 1824.
МИСС СИДДОНС
381. Pie Voleuse. See ante, note to p. 304.
‘Born to converse,’ etc. Cf. Pope, Prologue to the Satires, 196.
The Fall of Nineveh. By John Martin (1789–1854). The painting was being exhibited in Bond Street.
382. Abridged Paradise Lost. Mrs. Siddons published The Story of our First Parents selected from Milton’s Paradise Lost for the use of young persons, 1822.
A triumphant peroration, etc. Hazlitt no doubt refers to Scott’s Life of Napoleon, published in 1827.
‘The worst, the second fall of man.’ Cf. William Windham, Speeches, II. 47 (Nov. 4, 1801).
384. ‘Barren spectators.’ Hamlet, Act III. Sc. 2.
Mr. Stanfield’s landscape back-grounds. William Clarkson Stanfield (1793–1867).
Veluti in speculum. Cf. ‘Inspicere tamquam in speculum in vitas omnium,’ etc. Terence, Adelphi, Act III. Sc. 3.
ТРИ ЧЕТВЕРТИ И Т. Д.
384. The new comedy. Ups and Downs, or the Ladder of Life was the title of the piece here noticed by Hazlitt. It was acted eight times.
The secretary of the Admiralty, etc. Croker. Cf. ante, p. 344.
385. A nice distinction in Miss Burney. See her Cecilia.
Killing no Murder. A farce by Theodore Hook, produced in 1809.
386. ‘Like dew-drops,’ etc. Troilus and Cressida, Act III. Sc. 3.
‘Fine by degrees,’ etc. Prior, Henry and Emma, 430.
‘They best can paint them,’ etc. Pope, Eloisa to Abelard, 366.
Lord Porchester’s tragedy. Don Pedro, King of Castile, by Lord Porchester, afterwards 3rd Earl of Carnarvon (1800–1849) was produced at Drury Lane on March 10, 1828.
Lord Morpeth’s. Lord Morpeth, afterwards 7th Earl of Carlisle (1802–1864) published in 1828 The Last of the Greeks; or the Fall of Constantinople, a tragedy in verse.
386. The Sphynx, etc. The Sphynx (1827) and The Athenæum (1828) were started, and The Argus (1828) was projected by James Silk Buckingham (1786–1855).
387. ‘Oh! dearest Ophelia,’ etc. Hamlet, Act II. Sc. 2.
388. ‘He knows his cue,’ etc. Cf. Othello, Act I. Sc. 2.
Г-Н КИН
389. We do not wonder, etc. Kean had played Richard III. at the Théâtre Français in May 1828.
Voltaire has borrowed, etc. Cf. ante, p. 282.
‘The poet’s eye,’ etc. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act V. Sc. 1.
390. ‘Should be as a book,’ etc. Macbeth, Act I. Sc. 5.
The Hetman Platoff. The Russian general, Matvei Ivanovich Platoff (1757–1818), Hetman of the Cossacks of the Don. See vol. IX. p. 465.
391. ‘Give us pause.’ Hamlet, Act III. Sc. 1.
Miss Smithson. Harriet Constance Smithson (1800–1854), who played frequently in France and married Hector Berlioz in 1833.
A series of elegant bas-reliefs, etc. Cf. vol. VIII. p. 456, where the same comparison is made.
392. Little Bartolozzi. Miss Bartolozzi made her first appearance (at the Haymarket) on June 17, 1828. She was a sister of Madame Vestris.
СЭР ПИТЕР ТИЗЛ В ИСПОЛНЕНИИ МАНДЕНА
О связи Хэзлитта с «The Times» в качестве драматического критика см. том VIII, стр. 512. Пятнадцать статей, перепечатанных впервые в настоящем томе, были включены на основании внутренних доказательств авторства Хэзлитта. Никаких разумных сомнений относительно любой из них быть не может.
392. Past Ten O’clock. ‘A moderate farce’ by Dibdin, produced March 11, 1815. See Genest. In another account of Munden (vol. VIII. p. 270) Hazlitt had referred to his ‘broad shining face’ and ‘the alarming drop of his chin.’
ГАМЛЕТ В ИСПОЛНЕНИИ ЯНГА
Ср. эту статью с описанием «Гамлета» в «Персонажах пьес Шекспира», том I, стр. 237.
394. The Miller and his Men. A successful melodrama by Pocock, produced in 1813.
395. ‘The paragon of animals.’ Hamlet, Act II. Sc. 2.
‘Peaked or pined.’ Macbeth, Act I. Sc. 3.
‘Oh that this too, too solid flesh,’ etc. Hamlet, Act I. Sc. 2.
‘The pretty Ophelia.’ Ibid. Act IV. Sc. 5.
ДАУТОН В «ЛИЦЕМЕРЕ»
Ср. заметку о «Лицемере» во «Взгляде на английскую сцену», том VIII, стр. 245–7.
395. ‘Very craftily qualified.’ Othello, Act II. Sc. 3.
РОЗАЛИНДА В ИСПОЛНЕНИИ МИСС БРАНТОН
Ср. заметки о двух других Розалиндах во «Взгляде и т. д.», том VIII, стр. 252 и 336.
397. Miss Brunton. Elizabeth Brunton (1799–1860), who in 1823 married Frederick Henry Yates, the actor.
‘Good emphasis and discretion.’ Cf. ‘With good accent and good discretion,’ Hamlet, Act II. Sc. 2.
‘The gods,’ etc. As You Like It, Act III. Sc. 3.
ЗАНГА В ИСПОЛНЕНИИ МЭЙВУДА
Хэзлитт рецензировал Шейлока в исполнении Мэйвуда. См. «Взгляд» и т. д., том VIII, стр. 374. В 1821 году Мэйвуд написал Хэзлитту из Нью-Йорка, представляя г-на Гринхоу, которому было поручено передать Хэзлитту кусочек печени Джорджа Кука. См. «Мемуары» г-на У. К. Хэзлитта и т. д., II, 1–2.
398. ‘From the sound,’ etc. Cf. Collins, Ode, The Passions, 19–20.
‘Distilling them,’ etc. Cf. Hamlet, Act I. Sc. 5.
‘Too tame.’ Ibid., Act III. Sc. 2.
‘’Twas I that did it.’ The Revenge, Act V. Sc. 2.
‘Forced gait.’ 1 Henry IV., Act III. Sc. 1.
РИЧАРД III В ИСПОЛНЕНИИ КИНА
Ср. эссе о «Ричарде III» в «Персонажах пьес Шекспира» (том I, стр. 298–303), где Хэзлитт говорит о «жалкой мешанине, разыгранной как «Ричард III»» и приводит некоторые из опущенных пассажей как «особо приспособленные для сценического эффекта». «Ричард III» Шекспира был возобновлен в Ковент-Гарден 12 марта 1821 года, Макриди играл Ричарда, а миссис Банн — королеву Маргариту.