toil, and soothe
another's sorrow. Fool that I was to call anything _mine_!

_Elliot Stock_, _Paternoster Row_, _London_.

Footnotes:

{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, ex