TY - JOUR
AU - O'Brien, Paul
AB -  September 2003 Coleridge's conversation, `Would heedless of a broken pate, / Stand like a man asleep'. Hazlitt similarly associates Stoddart with murder. In `Common Places' he makes a list of things and people that a `good hater may here find wherewithal to feed the largest spleen, and swell it, even to bursting!' 16 Included in the list is `Slop raving at the bloodthirsty victims of courtly assassins, and whetting mild daggers for patriot throats'. Hazlitt hates Stoddart for his politics, and for the verbal assaults the former editor of The Times heaped on his hero Napoleon. Stoddart's tirades against Napoleon are quoted by Hone in Buonapartaphobia, and are often taken from The Times itself: NAPOLEON THE GREAT! . . . an Adventurer! A blustering Charlatan! ± such a Fellow! ± a Scoundrel, with a degraded character! ± an Impostor! ± a Wretch! A desperate Wretch! Such a Wretch! ± a Robber! ± a mere Brigand! An atrocious Brigand.17 And so on. But in Hone's squib Stoddart does not write these lines himself, they are delivered to him by the Devil: Scene ± a Room at DOCTOR SLOP'S in Doctors Commons. Present ± DOCTOR SLOP, MY FATHER, and MY 
TI - Shelley's Printer in Ireland
JF - Notes and Queries
DO - 10.1093/nq/50.3.313
DA - 2003-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/shelley-s-printer-in-ireland-JXWC0M1HOj
SP - 313
EP - 314
VL - 50
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -