| 单词 | Hazlitt |
| 例句 | I always enjoyed a visit to Hazlitt, even if the wines are fairly simple. Cabernet Franc and the Finger Lakes: Made for Each Other 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z At Hazlitt, Sarah Weinman unearths the now forgotten abduction case that helped to inspire Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita.” Weekend Reading: The Real Humbert Humbert, Origins of “The Sexiest Man Alive,” and More 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z At its best," Paulin told me, "The Review Show was the equivalent of what Hazlitt called "writing to the moment". The Review Show's move to BBC4 isn't a death sentence 2013-03-15T16:00:02Z Hazlitt is convinced the young woman was murdered, and she persuades Rebus to reopen the case. Detective John Rebus returns 2013-01-24T23:29:57Z In their bare-knuckle approach, these essays descend directly from those of William Hazlitt, who advised his fellow-progressives to pull no punches. The Prescient Anger of Arundhati Roy 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z It lies in the direct inheritance of the romantic confessional—the Jewish-American offspring of Rousseau and Chateaubriand and De Quincey and Hazlitt, where human truth is the reward of personal egotism. The Strange Prophecies in Norman Mailer’s “The Armies of the Night” 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z On a hammock in August 1981, discovering William Hazlitt in a paperback borrowed from the owners, overlooking a pond, not too buggy. Phillip Lopate Is No Fan of ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z They ranged from his beautiful, adored Jill – top of any list of loves – to Plymouth Argyle, and from Hazlitt and Mozart to Humphrey Bogart. The Michael Foot I knew, by Neil Kinnock 2010-12-12T00:06:00Z The other one: it wasn't Hazlitt in toto, just a period in his life when he fell madly in love with a landlady's daughter and she treated him quite badly. Tom Stoppard: 'I'm the crank in the bus queue' 2010-04-14T20:30:00Z But by the end of the play, we come to understand that, as the sage critic William Hazlitt once observed, “It is we who are Hamlet.” Who is Hamlet? Three actors make their case 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z Like Roy, Hazlitt reflexively distrusted power, “the grim idol that the world adore.” The Prescient Anger of Arundhati Roy 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z No English journalist, with the possible exception of Hazlitt or Cobbett, had been so personally driven or self-possessed. The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z And I was staying at the hotel, Hazlitt’s, so Elena came to do the fitting with me there. Nan Goldin Is Ready for Oscar Night 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z Nor was it just selections from the great essayists, including William Hazlitt, Thomas de Quincey and Samuel Johnson. The new Penguin English Library is a far cry from its 1963 version 2012-05-24T07:00:00Z In 1984, he mentioned to the New York Times a planned play about presidential bodyguards; there have been periodic hints about a drama involving the 19th-century critic and writer William Hazlitt. Tom Stoppard: 'I'm the crank in the bus queue' 2010-04-14T20:30:00Z Hazlitt says she sees a pattern: the details of her daughter’s disappearance strikingly resemble those of several other young women. Detective John Rebus returns 2013-01-24T23:29:57Z The volume kicks off with Montaigne, followed by fragments of Bacon, Johnson, Hazlitt and Charles Lamb. Etcetera: Steven Poole's non-fiction choice – reviews 2012-05-25T21:55:07Z There’s Hazlitt, launched by Random House Canada, and Lenny Letter, which now has a publishing imprint, and Catapult, which describes itself as a book publisher with a daily online magazine. The Personal-Essay Boom Is Over 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z Hazlitt's "sunshine of fortune" did not shine on Lane's career in terms of West End stardom, but she was a well-admired actor in regional theatre for some three decades. Pamela Lane obituary 2010-11-21T18:54:00Z His tragedy, which his careful revisions and rationalisations cannot conceal, is that he became what he had despised – as Hazlitt put it, "a living and ignominious satire upon himself". Christopher Hitchens: from socialist to neocon 2013-01-18T13:01:01Z Nina Hazlitt is desperate to find her daughter, who’s been missing for several years. Detective John Rebus returns 2013-01-24T23:29:57Z In short, Mr. Hazlitt bids us drift no longer under the spell of our old Constitution worship but remodel our government with unflinching courage. Notes From the Book Review Archives 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z The most positive by-product is that it makes you want to rush to the Tate to look at Turner's paintings with their impression of what Hazlitt called "tinted steam". The Painter ? review 2011-01-16T21:31:01Z He acknowledged in Hazlitt magazine that while he “actively broke” his mother’s Russian rituals, they were “a reminder of a home I’m in danger of forgetting.” Evan Gershkovich adored life in Russia. Now, the reporter waits in prison. 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z He approximated a quote from William Hazlitt, an English writer: “Death conceals everything but truth and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue.” Joe Biden, Emissary of Grief 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z This article was first published by Hazlitt, the online literary magazine. ‘I felt like an impostor’: a mixed-race American in Africa 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z For habitual liars, telling untruths is “partly practice and partly habit,” William Hazlitt once wrote. Donald Trump’s Response to John McCain’s Death Reminds Us Just How Petty and Small He Is 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z Her work has appeared in Current Affairs, The Outline, Motherboard, and Hazlitt, among others. Push to hire autistic workers in tech could be recipe for hyper-exploitation 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z As the essayist William Hazlitt wrote one year earlier, “nothing that was established was to be tolerated … the world was to be turned topsy-turvy.” A mission for journalism in a time of crisis 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z In our letters we are doing what Hazlitt called “writing to the moment”: the quick of life is in them, and all its absurdity. Don’t press send … The new rules for good writing in the 21st century 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z Cullen stopped the vehicle on Hazlitt Street and questioned the driver on Thursday. Traffic stop yields $750K in heroin 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z Police say Hazlitt was riding a bike about 11:45 p.m. Bicyclist dies after being hit by pickup truck in Helena. 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z Thinking about the Hazlitt quote that begins this piece, an economy is not a blob with a life of its own. Life Without Free Trade Would Be Defined By Cruel Deprivation 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z The most popular book demystifying economics of the 20th century was Henry Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson. Demystifying Economics: Finally A Fun Economics Book That Members Of Congress Will Enjoy 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z Were Hazlitt born two centuries later, in this country, the chances are good that he would have added the men’s basketball team at Duke University to his list. The Joy of Hating Duke and Christian Laettner 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Hazlitt once again taught his many readers to look past the immediate results of policy. The Texas And North Dakota Oil Busts Through The Eyes Of Henry Hazlitt 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z With the Keynes/Hazlitt precedent in mind, I decided to give Piketty’s book a thorough going over. Assessing Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z The great Henry Hazlitt’s wise words came to mind while reading a recent New York Times post by George Mason economist Tyler Cowen. Tyler Cowen Promotes A Scary Narrative About War And Economic Growth 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z May it, like Hazlitt’s classic, sell a million copies! Demystifying Economics: Finally A Fun Economics Book That Members Of Congress Will Enjoy 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z Hazlitt was in his forties when he wrote the essay and had suddenly realized that he hated a lot of things—more, it seemed, than he loved—and for reasons that didn’t seem very good. The Joy of Hating Duke and Christian Laettner 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z As Hazlitt explained, inflation “leads to the overexpansion of some industries at the expense of others.” The Texas And North Dakota Oil Busts Through The Eyes Of Henry Hazlitt 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z Mr. Hazlitt thought the cure for deflation was for all workers to slash their wages, which would lower business costs and restore growth. Today's Economist: Inflationphobia, Part II 2013-07-16T04:03:00Z The Times's book review was written by one of its editorial writers, Henry Hazlitt, who was effusive in his praise not only for the book's substance but for its elegant style as well. Today's Economist: Bruce Bartlett: Why Hayek Isn't Paul Ryan's Guru 2012-08-28T10:00:59Z A letter from William Hazlitt is so striking, both for its truthfulness and its clear-headedness, as to deserve quoting in full. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z Certainly this is true of Murray's new Byron; it is in part true of the great editions of Hazlitt and Lamb recently published, to go no further afield. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z ‘For those two hours,’ he afterwards was pleased to say, ‘he was conversing with William Hazlitt’s forehead!’ Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There 2012-03-27T02:00:25.647Z But absent a law requiring it – which the libertarian Mr. Hazlitt would have opposed – this process could only take place slowly, painfully and unevenly. Today's Economist: Inflationphobia, Part II 2013-07-16T04:03:00Z It was reprinted in what was apparently a second edition of Roberts' Semi-Monthly Magazine for 1 and 15 February 1841 and in London in William Hazlitt's Romanticist and Novelist's Library. Tales for Fifteen 2012-03-21T02:00:38.090Z Look at her!" said Hazlitt, "isn't she fine!—isn't she magnificent? Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z Much has been said of the idealist MacDowell, but this young man, who had in his veins Scotch, Irish, and English blood, loved athletic sports; loved, like Hazlitt, a fast and furious boxing-match. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Hazlitt has wittily said: "His works have been translated into French; they ought to be translated into English." Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z In 1934, Mr. Warburg published a book detailing his criticism of reflation that was favorably reviewed in The Times by Mr. Hazlitt. Today's Economist: Inflationphobia, Part II 2013-07-16T04:03:00Z Hazlitt's "Select British Poets" and Harvey's "Shakespeare" he kept constantly on his table in later life, ready for use. Famous American Statesmen 2012-03-01T03:00:26.167Z Hazlitt was married to an amiable woman, and divorced after a few years, at his own request. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z We may not exactly say of him as Hazlitt said of Walter Scott: "His works, taken altogether, are almost like a new edition of human nature." Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z When we pass from Goldsmith to Hazlitt—one of the greatest names in English criticism—we find that “humour” has grown in meaning, without quite reaching its full development. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z Mencken once said of Mr. Hazlitt that he was “one of the few economists in human history who could really write.” Today's Economist: Inflationphobia, Part II 2013-07-16T04:03:00Z The readers of Lamb, Hazlitt, Wordsworth, Southey and the brilliant essayists that made so fascinating the English literature of the first third of our century must perforce be introduced to Coleridge. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z The account of Hazlitt's death-bed, which appeared in one of the magazines, he said was wholly untrue. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z Such guests as Lamb, Hazlitt, Coleridge, Hood, and Cornwall came to this humble home, and here Shelley met Keats, the "Adonais" of his elegy. A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors 2012-02-17T03:00:36.500Z It had become for Hazlitt what Addison called cheerfulness, “a habit of the mind” as distinguished from mirth, which is “an act.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z In an editorial probably written by Mr. Hazlitt, The Times rejected any resort to inflation no matter how much prices fell. Today's Economist: Inflationphobia, Part II 2013-07-16T04:03:00Z This contains the Complete Tradesman, Religious Courtship, The Consolidator and other works not comprised in Hazlitt’s. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z Mr Hazlitt, in his new edition of Brand, i. The Rogues and Vagabonds of Shakespeare's Youth Awdeley's 'Fraternitye of vacabondes' and Harman's 'Caveat' 2012-02-14T03:00:27.797Z The whole point of the matter is, however, perhaps best summed up in Hazlitt's remark, that there is a pleasure in Art which none but artists feel. Garden-Craft Old and New 2012-02-12T03:00:11.083Z Observe that Hazlitt has transferred to wit that power of pleasing as by a flattering sense of our own superiority which Goldsmith attributed to humour. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z As Hazlitt acidly observed, she manipulates her actors like a girl playing with her dolls. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z And Hazlitt, who was a good one, wrote on many subjects besides books and art. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z These volumes deal with the Hazlitts in England, Ireland, and America, and give a picture of Ireland in 1780 and of America in 1783-7. By Right of Sword 2011-12-22T03:00:24.563Z His Walking-Stick Papers, Broome Street Straws, Turns about Town and Peeps at People have that charming rambling humor that descends to him from his masters in this art, Hazlitt and Thackeray. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z It is plain that this is not what Hazlitt meant, or we now mean, by the humour displayed in “describing the ludicrous as it is shown in itself.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z Knowles, an actor and a practical playwright, was also the friend and in a way the pupil of Lamb and Hazlitt, and he gained the coöperation of a great and ambitious actor, Macready. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z We cannot write like Hazlitt, but we will not hit below the belt as he did sometimes. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z It may be conceded that matters-110- have improved somewhat since that receding day when Hazlitt, whose critical forte was not urbanity, uttered this acrimonious opinion. Aspects of Modern Opera Estimates and Inquiries 2011-12-12T03:00:24.900Z The fine flavor and genius of the essay—as in Bacon and Montaigne, Lamb, Hazlitt, Thackeray, Thoreau; perhaps even in Stevenson—is the rich bouquet of personality. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z An entirely new and greatly enlarged edition by W. Carew Hazlitt, of that Ilk. Schools, School-Books and Schoolmasters 2011-11-16T03:00:25.713Z Have you seen Hazlitt’s notes of his travels? The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z She was constantly in company with Lamb, Hazlitt, Coleridge, Constable, and many more, hitherto known to her only by name. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:08.903Z Yet the shade of Hazlitt might have been made sufficiently uncomfortable by being confronted, half a century after his death, by the indignant and voluble apparition of Richard Wagner. Aspects of Modern Opera Estimates and Inquiries 2011-12-12T03:00:24.900Z The student of humor will be interested in Hazlitt's "English Comic Writers," Thackeray's "English Humorists," and Besant's "French Humorists." The World's Best Books : A Key to the Treasures of Literature 2011-10-20T02:00:20.857Z When Mr. Registrar Hazlitt was engaged with him on the Bankruptcy Bill, he remarked more than once: “I am sick, Hazlitt, of the woll business.” Schools, School-Books and Schoolmasters 2011-11-16T03:00:25.713Z Before the romantic movement in France Diderot in that country, Lessing and some of his successors in Germany, Hazlitt, Coleridge and Lamb in England, had been admirable critics and reviewers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z Fru Hazlitt, ITV's managing director of online and commercial, said Schmidt was right to pick up on broadcasters' fear of Google. Google crashes TV's Edinburgh party 2011-08-28T17:01:01Z He has not the glitter of Hazlitt—a writer whom it is a shame to depreciate; nor does he ever make the least pretence of aspiring to the chair of Coleridge. Res Judicat? Papers and Essays 2011-08-24T02:00:18.157Z Hazlitt wrote much at an inn at Winterslow, with Salisbury Plain around the corner of his view. Hints to Pilgrims 2011-08-18T02:00:23.727Z This second series of Collections will add to Mr. Hazlitt’s well-earned reputation as a bibliographer, and should be in every real library through the English-speaking world. Schools, School-Books and Schoolmasters 2011-11-16T03:00:25.713Z Hazlitt, describing his manner of reading his own poetry in much later years, says, ‘It is clear that he is either mad or inspired.’ Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z There has been no abler judgment of the acknowledged works than that which will be found in William Hazlitt's "Lectures on the Literature of the Age of Elizabeth." The Mystery of Francis Bacon 2011-07-09T02:00:14.663Z When our own great critic, Hazlitt, heard of this incident he fell in love with Napoleon on the spot, and subsequently wrote his life in numerous volumes. Res Judicat? Papers and Essays 2011-08-24T02:00:18.157Z Coleridge told Hazlitt that he liked to compose "walking over uneven ground, or breaking through the straggling branches of a copse-wood." Hints to Pilgrims 2011-08-18T02:00:23.727Z An entirely new edition, carefully revised and greatly enlarged by W. Carew Hazlitt. Schools, School-Books and Schoolmasters 2011-11-16T03:00:25.713Z And when we turn to the poets themselves, and especially to their prose writings, letters, and 180 recorded conversation, and even to the critiques of Hazlitt, of Lamb, and of Coleridge, we cannot reject it. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z The critics of the time, Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, Charles Lamb, have achieved a permanent place in literature. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z But though Hazlitt got the worst of it in his personal encounter with the universe, he nevertheless managed to fling down before he died what will suffice to keep his name alive. Res Judicat? Papers and Essays 2011-08-24T02:00:18.157Z Byron's parody on Southey's "Vision of Judgment" appeared in it, and ultimately William Hazlitt became a contributor. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z Hazlitt, too, may be taken as holding that there is no such thing as dreamless sleep. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z Just think, here I have Hazlitt's 'Table Talk,' Emerson's 'Essays,' and Carlyle's 'Heroes and Hero Worship.' If Any Man Sin 2011-06-12T02:00:05.887Z On the other side the Edinburgh, under the more urbane and temperate Jeffrey, could sneer spitefully at all times and abuse savagely enough on occasion, especially when its contributor was Hazlitt. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z What splendid reading it makes! but we quote it for the purpose of applying its sense to Hazlitt himself. Res Judicat? Papers and Essays 2011-08-24T02:00:18.157Z It was however under their influence, and under the gradually growing influence of Lamb, Coleridge and Hazlitt, that the criticism of this period grew up. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z During those memorable six minutes Mr. Registrar Hazlitt had occupied the position of an impresario, and it would be difficult to say whether at that momentous crisis he or I was most out of place. The Mapleson Memoirs, vol II 1848-1888 2011-05-26T02:00:18.807Z We have allowed Mr. Hazlitt to supply the deficiency. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z But for Hazlitt Coleridge was in politics an apostate not to be pardoned, while for the Blackwood group he was no enemy but an ally. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Because they both wrote essays and were fond of the Elizabethans, it became the fashion to link Hazlitt's name with Lamb's. Res Judicat? Papers and Essays 2011-08-24T02:00:18.157Z In the end the "blue paper" was signed by Mr. Registrar Hazlitt constituting me a bankrupt, and I left the Court in a state of depression quite unusual to me. The Mapleson Memoirs, vol I 1848-1888 2011-05-20T02:00:28.363Z Once more, only a few weeks ago, I stood in the presence of Mr. Registrar Hazlitt, and, as in the days of Sir Michael Costa's disputed cheque, had Mr. Russell Gole by my side. The Mapleson Memoirs, vol II 1848-1888 2011-05-26T02:00:18.807Z The real facts, however, are not so poetical; yet Hazlitt says that the story outdoes the “Arabian Nights.” Literary Byways 2011-05-12T02:00:09.493Z Regular also was his attendance at Hazlitt’s evening lectures on the English Poets at the Surrey Institution. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Hazlitt may have been an unhappy man, but he was above the vile affectation of pretending to see nothing in life. Res Judicat? Papers and Essays 2011-08-24T02:00:18.157Z Mr. Registrar Hazlitt was amazed, and in tones of something like dismay declared that he had trouble enough where he was, and could not undertake the management of an Opera-house. The Mapleson Memoirs, vol I 1848-1888 2011-05-20T02:00:28.363Z Hazlitt said of Congreve that "the workmanship overlays the materials; in Wycherley the casting of the parts and the fable are alone sufficient to ensure success." Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z I humbly suggest that the Congressman read Henry Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson before raising this issue again. Is Steve Jobs Killing Jobs? 2011-04-21T14:53:57Z To realize the controversial atmosphere of the time, here is a passage, and not the fiercest, from the Hazlitt article in which Keats found too venomous a sting. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z In Hazlitt the reader will find trains of sober thought pursued with deep feeling and melancholy. Res Judicat? Papers and Essays 2011-08-24T02:00:18.157Z There is a class of English writers to whom the descriptive term essayist is applied, the most illustrious being Addison, Steele, Charles Lamb, Hazlitt, De Quincey, Macaulay, Carlyle, Froude, Matthew Arnold, R. L. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura 2011-04-14T02:00:56.200Z There are exceptions to that fine rule of Hazlitt's brother: "No young man believes he shall ever die." Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z Take so rough an executant as Hazlitt: "Harmer Hill stooped with all its pines, to listen to a poet, as he passed!" Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z Southey’s first love, rails Hazlitt, had been the Republic, his second was Legitimacy, ‘her more fortunate and wealthy rival’:— Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Indeed, Hazlitt's whole description of Cavanagh's play reminds one of his own literary method: 'His style of play was as remarkable as his power of execution. Res Judicat? Papers and Essays 2011-08-24T02:00:18.157Z See Hazlitt’s account of Hunt in Italy given in a letter from Haydon to Miss Mitford. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z Beside Lamb's stuttered jests, Hazlitt's incisions, Coleridge's billowy eloquence, Wilde's tapestried speech must be set among the regrettable things of which time has carelessly deprived us. Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z In the course of his writings, Hazlitt frequently quotes Rousseau, and always with admiration. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z No one, least of all one 243 living in Keats’s circle, could well attempt stage criticism at this time without trying to write like Hazlitt. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z No English writer better pays the debt of gratitude always owing to great poets, painters, and authors than Hazlitt; but his is a manly, not a maudlin, gratitude. Res Judicat? Papers and Essays 2011-08-24T02:00:18.157Z At different times, various series of articles appeared, such as the Essays on Methodism by Hunt, and The Round Table by Hunt and Hazlitt. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z Hazlitt never wrote a play; but his was talk with a purpose. Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z Hazlitt exposes the baneful effect of Burke's attacks, while acknowledging that from his own, the Tory point of view, Burke was justified in taking the line that he did. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z But he quickly recovered his balance, and in a letter to Dilke of a few days later, speaking of Hazlitt’s wrath against the Blackwood scribes, is silent as to their treatment of himself. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Hazlitt is lecturing on Poetry at the Surrey Institution—I shall be there next Tuesday. Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends 2011-03-30T02:00:14.620Z Hazlitt contributed Pulpit Oratory, On the Spirit of Monarchy, a pithy dissertation On the Scotch Character, and a delightful reminiscence of Coleridge in My First Acquaintance with Poets. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z Captain Coppoc and Lieutenant Hazlitt were to hold the Arsenal outside and opposite the Armory gates. The Raid of John Brown at Harper's Ferry as I Saw It 2011-03-02T03:00:26.877Z It was a belated expression of the enthusiasm of a preceding generation, in full sympathy with the attitude of Hazlitt and Byron. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z Hunt, as we have seen, had replied indignantly 314 to his Blackwood traducers, repelling scorn with scorn, and he and Hazlitt were both at first red-hot to have the law of them. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z I hear Hazlitt’s lectures regularly, his last was on Gray, Collins, Young, etc., and he gave a very fine piece of discriminating Criticism on Swift, Voltaire, and Rabelais. Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends 2011-03-30T02:00:14.620Z Lamb’s wrath had been slowly gathering under the strain of repeated attacks on Hunt, Hazlitt and himself. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z During the excitement Hazlitt and the negro Anderson left the Arsenal and, undetected, escaped into Pennsylvania. The Raid of John Brown at Harper's Ferry as I Saw It 2011-03-02T03:00:26.877Z It is perfectly true that "the genius of Rousseau levelled the towers of the Bastille with the dust," but Hazlitt, an intellectual revolutionary, exults in the admission. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z Now or somewhat later he formed an intimacy, never afterwards broken, with Hazlitt. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z I went last Tuesday, an hour too late, to Hazlitt’s Lecture on poetry, got there just as they were coming out, when all these pounced upon me. Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends 2011-03-30T02:00:14.620Z It is not likely that he was affected by them as much as either Hunt or Hazlitt, for he showed more indifference and greater dignity under fire than either. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z In Hazlitt and Francis Jeffrey we see the form and method of the essay beginning to be applied to literary criticism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z Hazlitt allows, nevertheless, that the exaggerated hopes founded upon such books as the Contrat Social have been followed by inevitable disappointment. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z Familiar visitors at this time of Haydon in the Marlborough Street studio and of Hunt in the Hampstead cottage were two men of finer gift than either, William Hazlitt and Charles Lamb. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z You remember in Hazlitt’s essay on commonplace people he says, “they read the Edinburgh and Quarterly, and think as they do.” Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends 2011-03-30T02:00:14.620Z Hazlitt is called a literary flunky, a sore, an ulcer, a poor devil. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z A work appeared in London last summer with the following title: Talvi's History of the Colonization of America, edited by William Hazlitt, in two volumes. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 2011-02-23T03:00:33.760Z To the native genius for poetry was now added the advantage of materials for a prose which in lucidity and versatility should surpass even that of Goldsmith and Hazlitt. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z He has left no personal impression of Hazlitt, and of Lamb only the slightest and most casual. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z He has also the fault that you pointed out to me in Hazlitt on the constringing and diffusing of substance. Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends 2011-03-30T02:00:14.620Z Other accounts of these suppers are to be found in Hazlitt’s On the Conversations of Authors; in the works dealing with Charles Lamb; and in the Cornhill Magazine, November, 1900. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z Mr. Hazlitt, we believe, is a son of the great critic of the last age. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 2011-02-23T03:00:33.760Z Lamb and his great Hazlitt. rival, William Hazlitt, both maintained that criticism was not so much an affair of learning, or an exercise of comparative and expository judgment, as an act of imagination in itself. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Keats and Hazlitt were up in a corner, really rejoicing.’ Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Now, with respect to Wordsworth’s “Gipsy,” I think he is right, and yet I think Hazlitt is right, and yet I think Wordsworth is rightest. Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends 2011-03-30T02:00:14.620Z Hunt, Shelley, Hazlitt and Keats were the chief targets in the Cockney School. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z Hazlitt has ably summed up the influence of the French Revolution on Wordsworth. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z The second biography was translated by William Hazlitt. A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 1 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe 2011-02-16T03:00:36.047Z In the interval a cloud of critics, including men of such gifts as Lamb, Hazlitt, and Leigh Hunt, were in their several ways champions of the same cause. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z It’s the finest thing by God as Hazlitt would say. Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends 2011-03-30T02:00:14.620Z The same ability helped him to appreciate Byron, Hazlitt and Lamb. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z Hazlitt stated that there were some prose works that approached poetry without absolutely being poetry, instancing Robinson Crusoe, Pilgrim's Progress, and the Decameron. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Presentation copy from the author to W. C. Hazlitt. A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 1 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe 2011-02-16T03:00:36.047Z To Hunt he criticizes some points in the last number of the Examiner, and especially, in his kind-hearted, well-conditioned way, deprecates a certain vicious allusion to grey hairs in an attack of Hazlitt upon Southey. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z I am very near agreeing with Hazlitt that Shakspeare is enough for us. Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends 2011-03-30T02:00:14.620Z Blackwood’s of October, 1823, declared Hazlitt to be the most loathsome and Hunt the most ludicrous of the group. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z I have shown that the view was not wholly originated by Freud, but stated by various English critics like Samuel Johnson, Hazlitt, Lamb and Kingsley. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Anecdotes of Celebrities, Living and Deceased, many of which have never before been published. Collected and Edited, with preface and index, by W. Carew Hazlitt. London: A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 2 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe 2011-02-16T03:00:34.387Z Neither in these first days nor later could Hunt persuade his old intimates Hazlitt and Lamb to take kindly to his new friend Shelley either as man or poet. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Hazlitt thus defends himself, “My words are, ‘Coriolanus is a storehouse of political commonplaces. Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends 2011-03-30T02:00:14.620Z Hazlitt found relief for his feelings by threatening Blackwood’s with a lawsuit. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z Hazlitt said that the man of genius spent his whole life in telling the world what he had known himself when he was eighteen. Far Off Things 2011-02-04T03:00:19.967Z Fifty copies printed for Henry Huth and edited by W. Carew Hazlitt. A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 2 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe 2011-02-16T03:00:34.387Z Hazlitt expressed in the Edinburgh Review for the following August a tempered, far from undiscriminating admiration of certain qualities in the painting. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z He says that Hazlitt has slandered Shakspeare in saying that he had a leaning to the arbitrary side of the question. Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends 2011-03-30T02:00:14.620Z Lamb’s Letter to Southey, already referred to, contained a defense of Hazlitt as well as of Hunt. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z Waiving utterly—I am sorry to say—the title of man of genius, I would reaffirm Hazlitt's proposition on lower grounds. Far Off Things 2011-02-04T03:00:19.967Z W. Hazlitt. A new and carefully revised edition, edited by O. W. Wight. A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 2 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe 2011-02-16T03:00:34.387Z Hazlitt, in words written a few years later, gives a nearly similar portrait:— Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z I met people from all parts and of all sets—Mr. Towers, one of the Holts, Mr. Dominie Williams, Mr. Woodhouse, Mrs. Hazlitt and son, Mrs. Webb, and Mrs. Septimus Brown. Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends 2011-03-30T02:00:14.620Z It remained silent until 1867, when Bulwer, in a comparison of Hunt and Hazlitt, conceded to the former a gracefulness and kindliness of disposition, a smoothness of tone and delicacy of finish in his writing. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z And it is probable that Hazlitt, though he never dreamed of it, was but re-expressing those sentences in the Holy Gospels which deal with the intimate relationship between children and "the Kingdom of Heaven." Far Off Things 2011-02-04T03:00:19.967Z Meeting him was not like Hazlitt’s meeting Coleridge. The Invisible Censor 2011-01-29T03:00:20.267Z Or may we possibly trace a clue to the evening’s enjoyment in this further note of Hazlitt’s on a phase of Wordsworth’s conversation?— Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z I called on Hunt yesterday—it has been always my fate to meet Ollier there—On Thursday I walked with Hazlitt as far as Covent Garden: he was going to play Racquets. Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends 2011-03-30T02:00:14.620Z Blackwood’s of August replied to these two defenses in a tirade of twenty-two pages against the Edinburgh Review, Hazlitt, and Hunt. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z As William Hazlitt once wrote, "the smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings". The politics of Tunisian tourism 2011-01-17T17:30:00Z Hazlitt rejects any suggestion of a rift within the commercial department. ITV asks sales team to dance to a different beat 2011-01-17T07:00:07Z “How marvelous is the Keynesian world!” wrote Henry Hazlitt in “The Failure of the ‘New Economics:’ An Analysis of the Keynesian Fallacies.” Some Manure, Please, So I Can ‘Grow the Economy’: Caroline Baum 2011-01-10T02:02:03Z I have not heard one of this last course of Hazlitt’s lectures. Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends 2011-03-30T02:00:14.620Z The “vinous quality” of his mind, Hazlitt said, intoxicated those who came in contact with him. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z Winslow's New York battery was in a wheat-field south of Trostle's, holding them in check, while Hazlitt's battery on Weed's Hill rained a torrent of shells from its rocky fortress. The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy 2011-01-05T03:00:55.123Z When the public were admitted, Hazlitt described Fonthill as “a desert of magnificence, a glittering waste of laborious idleness, a cathedral turned into a toyshop....” Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale 2010-12-29T03:00:31.850Z Norman, Crozier and Hazlitt didn't have experience of television before they joined, which hardly inspires confidence. ITV turns the corner but still needs direction for the future 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z Hazlitt on, 76 “Great spirits now on earth are sojourning,” etc., Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends 2011-03-30T02:00:14.620Z That first offer was rejected, but with a bidder in the wings, Hazlitt adopted an unsentimental approach to the business that endeared her to many of its City shareholders. Fru Hazlitt profile: charismatic, uncompromising ? and new to TV 2010-06-03T10:48:00Z I will return to my Hazlitt to remember him. 'Loss' felt as Michael Foot dies 2010-03-03T13:42:00Z Hazlitt affirms that this popular diction is "an expression or combination of words conveying a truth to the mind by a figure, periphrasis, antithesis, or hyperbole." Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources If Hazlitt saw no wit in talking and walking, I see less than none in talking and driving. The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen I suppose you will have heard that Hazlitt has on foot a prosecution against Blackwood. Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends 2011-03-30T02:00:14.620Z Outspoken and uncompromising, Hazlitt worked her way up through the ad sales departments of trade magazine owner Centaur Communications, before joining Guardian Media Group, which publishes MediaGuardian.co.uk, as a sales executive in 1992. Fru Hazlitt profile: charismatic, uncompromising ? and new to TV 2010-06-03T10:48:00Z In his young days, according to Hazlitt, he said little in society—sat generally lost in thought—threw out a bold or an indifferent remark occasionally—and relapsed into reverie again. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. Of the many books which Robert Louis Stevenson planned and discussed with his friends in his correspondence there is none, perhaps, which would have been more valued than the biography of William Hazlitt. Stevensoniana Being a Reprint of Various Literary and Pictorial Miscellany Associated with Robert Louis Stevenson, the Man and His Work Four editions of Carew's poems appeared between 1640 and 1671, and four have been printed within the present century, the best being a quarto published by Mr. W. C. Hazlitt in 1870. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII I have by me at present Hazlitt’s Letter to Gifford—perhaps you would like an extract or two from the high-seasoned parts. Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends 2011-03-30T02:00:14.620Z If the papers on Hazlitt and De Quincey are more fragmentary than the others, it is because these writers have been already discussed by the author in a previous volume. The Vagabond in Literature Essays of Hazlitt and of Leigh Hunt upon the stage. Woman's Club Work and Programs First Aid to Club Women I am in treaty with Bentley for a Life of Hazlitt; I hope it will not fall through as I love the subject, and appear to have found a publisher who loves it also. Stevensoniana Being a Reprint of Various Literary and Pictorial Miscellany Associated with Robert Louis Stevenson, the Man and His Work Thus we find the author of Lanky Bill and His Dog Bluebeard looking down with patronage on a man like Hazlitt, because he lacked something that is called the creative gift. The Book of This and That Hazlitt speaks of “the vinous quality of his mind” as producing a fascination and an intoxication at once upon those who came in contact with him. Stevenson's Perfect Virtues As Exemplified by Leigh Hunt Thus it is we find in the same spiritual brotherhood men so different in genius and character as Hazlitt, De Quincey, Thoreau, Whitman, Borrow, Jefferies, Stevenson. The Vagabond in Literature It was, I think, Hazlitt who said it, and he was right. Christopher Crayon's Recollections The Life and Times of the late James Ewing Ritchie as told by himself The subject has been tried by many others, but no one has quite captured the spirit of Hazlitt. Stevensoniana Being a Reprint of Various Literary and Pictorial Miscellany Associated with Robert Louis Stevenson, the Man and His Work A—D in fours; E, 4 leaves, and a leaf of F.”—Hazlitt’s Collections and Notes, p. 401-2. Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison Hazlitt usually wrote with the breakfast things on the table, and there they remained until he went out, at four or five o'clock, to dinner. Methods of Authors Hazlitt was never so gay, never wrote of books with such relish, as when he was recounting a country walk. The Vagabond in Literature If, therefore, it be the fact that our national comedy is in decline, we must look for some other reasons for it than those suggested by Hazlitt in 1817. A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time If the qualification of a biographer is to understand his subject, Stevenson may be said to have been well qualified to write on Hazlitt. Stevensoniana Being a Reprint of Various Literary and Pictorial Miscellany Associated with Robert Louis Stevenson, the Man and His Work He and Hazlitt were the only persons among the disputants, eminent or obscure, who showed any real comprehension of the subject. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition Hazlitt had used them as a commonplace book, writing on them in pencil scraps of brilliant thoughts, half-lines of poetry, and references. Methods of Authors There was a man whose habits of life were pleasantly Bohemian, and whose sympathy with the Vagabond temperament has made some critics over-hastily class him temperamentally with writers like Hazlitt and De Quincey. The Vagabond in Literature Hazlitt has recorded his very favourable impression of a remarkable sermon delivered at Shrewsbury; but there are other accounts of Coleridge’s preaching not so enthusiastic. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" The genial Elia and the fiery Hazlitt divided his especial and lasting attachment. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. When his father was officiating at Wem in Shropshire, in Hazlitt's twentieth year, Coleridge, who at times affected the same denomination, visited the place, and Hazlitt was most powerfully impressed by him. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) George Ticknor, the Bostonian, found William Hazlitt living in the very house in which Milton dictated "Paradise Lost," and occupying the room where the poet kept the organ on which he loved to play. Methods of Authors Hazlitt, on the other hand, was a genuine digressionalist; so was De Quincey; so was Borrow. The Vagabond in Literature Matilda Hazlitt had been counted a spirited girl before her marriage, and there were few of her neighbors who hesitated to assert that she would take her baby and go back to her father's house. Stories of the Foot-hills It is mentioned by Hazlitt, Bibliographical Collections, fourth series, s. v. A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 The second class contains the miscellaneous essays proper, and these have by some been put at the head of Hazlitt's work. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) Coleridge told Hazlitt that he liked to compose in walking over uneven ground, or breaking through the straggling branches of a copse-wood. Methods of Authors It is time surely that we should recall once more the tribute of Lamb: “I think William Hazlitt to be in his natural and healthy state one of the wisest and finest spirits breathing.” The Vagabond in Literature It was a most stately, graceful, gracious, and fascinating very old lady whom, when years, and many years, had come and gone, Hazlitt met and greeted. Oliver Goldsmith He may be said to resemble Jeremy Bentham, who, according to Hazlitt's criticism, fills his sentence with a row of pegs, and hangs a garment upon each of them. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 Great as Hazlitt was as a miscellaneous and Montaignesque essayist, he was greater as a literary critic. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) Here, having sown his seditious wild oats and broken free from the lawyers, Hone continued his occasional clever political satires, sometimes suggested by bitter Hazlitt and illustrated by George Cruikshank's inexhaustible fancy. Old and New London Volume I The complexity of Hazlitt’s temperament was especially emphasized by the two strong, opposing tendencies that called for no ordinary power of co-ordination. The Vagabond in Literature Doyle has perpetuated a mistake common with many English artists, who seem to think, as Hazlitt expresses it, that, “if they only leave out the subordinate parts, they are sure of the general result.” English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. His friends were the first literary men of the day,—Wordsworth, Leigh Hunt, Barry Cornwall, Talfourd, Hazlitt, Southey, Coleridge,—all the giants of that day and generation, and he was loved by them all. Home Life of Great Authors Lamb and Hazlitt improved upon him here, as Keats and Shelley improved upon him there. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) In two of Mr. Hazlitt's papers are graphic pictures of these delightful Wednesdays and the Wednesday men, and admirable notes of several choice conversations. Old and New London Volume I The artist is speaking in Hazlitt, but beneath the full, rich exuberance of the artist, you can detect an under-note of austerity. The Vagabond in Literature The analytical gift manifested itself in Hazlitt precociously in the study of human nature. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature Hazlitt has a long paper "On Persons One would Wish to have Seen." Home Life of Great Authors Here, also, he Germanised much; and it is not certain, even with the aid of his fragments, that he was the equal either of Lamb or of Hazlitt in insight. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) OLD SERJEANTS' INN The humours of Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, have been admirably described by Hazlitt, and are well condensed by a contemporaneous writer, of whose labours we gratefully avail ourselves. Old and New London Volume I There are times when the Puritan element disappears; and it is Hazlitt the eager, curious taster of life that is presented to us. The Vagabond in Literature Hazlitt could not walk out without feeling that every passer-by had read the atrocious article and saw the brand of the social outcast on his features. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature Johnson's epistle to Chesterfield is an example of the dignified form of this; Hazlitt's to Gifford of the undignified. A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing But what a position is it to be "improved upon" by Keats and Shelley in poetry, by Hazlitt and Lamb in prose! A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) It was said at the time that Hazlitt, perhaps unintentionally, had driven Scott to fight by indirect taunts. Old and New London Volume I No; it is the sheer joy of being in the open, and learning what Whitman called the “profound lesson of p. 30reception,” that attracted Hazlitt. The Vagabond in Literature No critic has approached books with so intense a passion as Hazlitt. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature Landor, Hazlitt, Lamb and Moore were at least, and some of them well, past the conventional "coming of age"; De Quincey, Byron and Shelley were boys and even Keats was more than an infant. A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing Macaulay had taken not a little from Gibbon; he had taken something from a then still living contributor of Jeffrey's own, Hazlitt. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) I don't pretend," Hazlitt is reported to have said, "to hold the principles of honour which you hold. Old and New London Volume I Hazlitt, like De Quincey, had felt the glamour of the city as well as the glamour of the country; not with the irresistibility of Lamb, but for all that potently. The Vagabond in Literature “My First Acquaintance with Poets,” and “Of Persons One Would Wish to Have Seen” are taken from the periodicals in which they first appeared, as they were not republished in book-form till after Hazlitt’s death. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature "W. H." is of course Hazlitt, and the "lectures" are his famous ones on English Poets. A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing Only about a fourth of this is said to be in Holcroft's own words; but Hazlitt has made excellent matter of the rest, and it includes a good deal of diary and other authentic work. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) Hazlitt, glowing and capricious, produced the twelve essays of his "Table Talk," many dramatic articles, and papers on Beckford's Fonthill, the Angerstein pictures, and the Elgin marbles—pages wealthy with thought. Old and New London Volume I But an instinct for the open, the craving for pleasant spaces, and the longing of the hard-driven journalist for the gracious leisure of the country, these things were paramount with both Hazlitt and De Quincey. The Vagabond in Literature To all who have contributed to the study and appreciation of Hazlitt, the present editor desires to make general acknowledgement—to Alexander Ireland, Mr. W. C. Hazlitt, Mr. Birrell, and Mr. Saintsbury. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature De Quincey and Hazlitt diverted a good deal of what might have been utilised as mere letter-writing faculty into their very miscellaneous work for publication. A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing Hazlitt probably learnt this from Godwin; and I think there is no doubt that Macaulay learnt it from Hazlitt. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) This worthy doctor on one occasion, when watching Sarratt, the great chess-player, turned suddenly to Hazlitt, and said, 'I think I could dance. Old and New London Volume I “One of the pleasantest things,” says Hazlitt, in true Vagabond spirit, “is going on a journey; but I like to go by myself.” The Vagabond in Literature All of Hazlitt’s quotations have been identified with the help of this edition. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature Hazlitt tells us in a delightful essay about the whimsical notion of Charles Lamb that he would rather see Sir Thomas Browne than Shakespeare. Ivory Apes and Peacocks According to Mr Hazlitt at least three editions appeared during the year. Catalogue of the Books Presented by Edward Capell to the Library of Trinity College in Cambridge A few only were left, 'like stars at break of day,' the discourse and the ale were growing sweeter; but Mouncey, Hazlitt, and a man named Wells, alone remained. Old and New London Volume I The last touch is not only characteristic of Hazlitt, it touches that note of reserve verging on anti-social sentiment that was mentioned as characteristic of the Vagabond. The Vagabond in Literature Hazlitt characterized the age he lived in as “critical, didactic, paradoxical, romantic.” Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature I shall not put pen to paper till I settle somewhere else; Hazlitt had better simmer awhile. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) "The heavens," says Hazlitt, "have gone farther off and become astronomical." The Hound of Heaven In an essay on 'Coffee-House Politicians,' in the second volume of his 'Table Talk,' Hazlitt has sketched the coterie at the 'Southampton,' in a manner not unworthy of Steele. Old and New London Volume I Outwardly, neither the lives of Hazlitt nor De Quincey were what we would call happy. The Vagabond in Literature In some instances Hazlitt was consciously the aggressor, but his attacks were never wanton. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature So I may go on to tell you that I have at last found a publisher as eager to publish, as I am to write a Hazlitt. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) I should like to study again Hazlitt's and Coleridge's comments upon Shakespeare; the former I used to think excellent. Records of Later Life While living in that state of half-assumed love frenzy at No. 9, Southampton Buildings, Hazlitt produced some of his best work. Old and New London Volume I Comparing the styles of Hazlitt and De Quincey, one is struck with the greater fire and vigour of Hazlitt. The Vagabond in Literature At any rate, in a complete balancing of the accounts, Hazlitt’s frequent displays of ill-temper are offset by the insidious, often unscrupulous baitings which he suffered from his opponents. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature I still hope to get more out of him about Hazlitt, though he utterly pooh-poohed the idea of writing H.’s life. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) I have thus played the sedulous ape to Hazlitt, to Lamb, to Wordsworth, to Sir Thomas Browne, to Defoe, to Hawthorne, to Montaigne, to Baudelaire, and to Obermann. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 Hazlitt was at first intended for an artist, but, coming to London, soon drifted into literature. Old and New London Volume I Indeed, the term which De Quincey applied to certain of his writings—“impassioned prose”—is really more applicable to many of Hazlitt’s essays. The Vagabond in Literature Hazlitt gave himself freely and without reserve to his reader. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature But I am glad to get a whack at Hazlitt, howsoe’er. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) Hazlitt's fine phrase, apropos of performance,112 says much in a few words. Music: An Art and a Language Hazlitt's habits at No. 9 were enough to have killed a rhinoceros. Old and New London Volume I On the other hand, the prose of Hazlitt was very frequently literally “impassioned.” The Vagabond in Literature Affectation and discretion were equally alien to Hazlitt’s nature, as they concerned either his personal conduct or his literary exercises. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature Gray would never be suited to my temperament, while Hazlitt fits me like a glove. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) And, talking of that, a volume of Hazlitt’s essays would be a capital pocket-book on such a journey; so would a volume of Heine’s songs; and for “Tristram Shandy” I can pledge a fair experience. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) Hazlitt resided in Southampton Buildings when he fell in love with the tailor's daughter and wrote that most stultifying confession of his vanity and weakness, "The New Pygmalion." Old and New London Volume I The essay can take its place beside Hazlitt’s “On Going a Journey,” than which we can give it no higher praise. The Vagabond in Literature But this was scarcely Hazlitt’s idea of criticism. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature A Life of Hazlitt was projected, and studies were made for it, but for various reasons the project was never carried out. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) For in truth, Hazlitt's critical range was not so wide as his penetration was deep; and he avows, almost exultingly, that after a comparatively early time of life, he practically left off reading. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Warming with his theme, Hazlitt goes on in his essay to etch one memorable evening at the 'Southampton.' Old and New London Volume I Hazlitt had no small measure of it, and certainly it meets us in the company of Borrow. The Vagabond in Literature Though not the surest kind of clue, this indicates at least that Hazlitt’s rejection of “pedantical rules and pragmatical formulas” was not equivalent to a declaration of anarchy. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature So says Hazlitt in his lectures on living poets. A Book of Sibyls Miss Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Opie, Miss Austen The Liberal, which contains work of his, of Byron's, of Shelley's, and of Hazlitt's, is interesting enough and worth buying in its original form, but it did not pay. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 He was a stout advocate for the Bourbons and the National Debt, and was duly disliked by Hazlitt, we may feel assured. Old and New London Volume I There is greater power in Hazlitt; De Quincey is more unique; the “prophetic scream” of Whitman is more penetrating. The Vagabond in Literature But this is a limitation which Hazlitt shares with all the finer critics of his day. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature The Roxburghe Library was a subscription series, commenced by Mr. W. Carew Hazlitt in 1868, with the same objects as a publishing society. How to Form a Library, 2nd ed Lamb was not descended from the kings that long the Tuscan sceptre swayed, and had some homely ways; Keats had to do with livery-stables, Hazlitt with shady lodging-houses and lodging-house keepers. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 To a little inoffensive man, 'of a saturnine aspect but simple conceptions,' Hazlitt once heard him say grandly, 'I will tell you, sir. Old and New London Volume I And yet, though much that he says is obviously inspired by Hazlitt, he will impart that flavour of his own less mordant personality to the discourse. The Vagabond in Literature Bare theorizing, according to his own confession, was no favorite pursuit with Hazlitt. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature Mr. Hazlitt has described his walking ten miles on a winter day to hear Coleridge preach. Books and Authors Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches Yet this is the way in which one has to speak of Jeffrey and Hazlitt, of Wilson and De Quincey. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Hazlitt's favourite authors were, for the most part, the friends of his youth. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Illustrations of each III The Inquisitiveness of Hazlitt 28 No patience with readers who will not quit their own small back gardens. The Vagabond in Literature The present selection of Hazlitt’s critical essays has been planned to serve two important purposes. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature "As a piece of poetical mechanism to be set to music, or recited in alternate strophe and anti-strophe," says Hazlitt, "nothing can be better." Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer He had known Lamb from boyhood, and Shelley some years; he now made the acquaintance of Keats, Hazlitt, and Byron. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 What Hazlitt says of Rousseau may be partly applied to himself. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Nervous instability is very marked in the case of Hazlitt and De Quincey; and there was a strain of morbidity in Borrow, Jefferies, and Stevenson. The Vagabond in Literature Even the unoffending Lamb did not escape their brutality, perhaps because he was guilty of admitting Hazlitt to his house. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature Hazlitt says, "Of all the poets, Spenser is the most poetical." Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer Perhaps not; but the wicked critic stops and asks himself whether Hazlitt had known much of the conversation of "Gentlemen and Men of Fashion"? Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Hazlitt was not bound to understand strategy, and devoutly held that Wellington's armies succeeded because their general only looked on. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) It was written in 1818, when Hazlitt was forty years old, and in the plenitude of his powers. The Vagabond in Literature The notes, in addition to identifying quotations and explaining allusions, indicate the nature of Hazlitt’s obligations to earlier and contemporary critics. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature A couple of ice-houses," says Dowden, "these two poems of Shakespeare have been called by Hazlitt; 'they are,' he says, 'as hard, as glittering, as cold.' Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer Of the famous four treatments of the dramatists of the Restoration—Lamb's, Hazlitt's, Leigh Hunt's, and Macaulay's—his seems to me by far the best. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 But from his dissenting forefathers Hazlitt inherited something better. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Had it been so, then Hazlitt would not take his place in this little band of literary Vagabonds. The Vagabond in Literature Very often Hazlitt’s reflections are the generalization of his personal experience. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature Morgann's attitude to the characters is the same as Coleridge's and Hazlitt's; his criticism, neglecting all formal matters, resolves itself into a study of human nature. Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare Hazlitt may sometimes have adopted an opinion partly because other people did not hold it, but he never adopted an opinion because other people did hold it. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Keats was scarcely more out of place in a surgery than Hazlitt would have been in a Unitarian pulpit of those days, and yet from that pulpit, oddly enough, came the greatest impulse to Hazlitt. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) The passion for the Earth which was noted as one of the Vagabond’s characteristics is not so pronounced in Hazlitt and De Quincey as with the later Vagabonds. The Vagabond in Literature An uncompromising attachment to certain fundamental principles of democracy and an unceasing devotion to Napoleon constitute the chief elements of Hazlitt’s political character. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature Even one so eminently sane as Hazlitt lent support to this opinion. Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare But these two, with the article on Poussin and the "Farewell to Essay-writing," have been so often mentioned that it may seem as if Hazlitt's store were otherwise poor. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Some eight years of artistic labour convinced him that he could not be a Titian or a Raphael, and he declined to be a mere Hazlitt junior. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) In Hazlitt’s case there is a touch of wildness, a more primal delight in the roughness and solitude of country places than we find in De Quincey. The Vagabond in Literature It so happened that Hazlitt’s complexion was unusually clear, but the epithet clung to him with a cruel tenacity. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature At the same time there is a far-reaching change in the literary appreciations of Shakespeare, which announces the school of Coleridge and Hazlitt: his characters now become the main topics of criticism. Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare Hazlitt is almost the only person up to his own day who dared to vindicate the claims of nonsense, though he seems to have talked and written as little of it as most men. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Hazlitt might have made out a tolerable list of his own antipathies; though, to do him justice, of antipathies balanced by ardent enthusiasm, especially for the dead or the distant. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Moody as he was at times, sour-tempered and whimsical as he could be, yet there was a fine quality of joy about Hazlitt. The Vagabond in Literature Wordsworth, being offended at Hazlitt’s review of the “Excursion,” peevishly raked up an old scandal and wrote to Haydon that he was “not a proper person to be admitted into respectable society.” Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature The book was unknown even to Hazlitt, who in the preface to his Characters of Shakespeare's Plays alludes only to Whately31 and Richardson as his English predecessors. Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare Moreover, he got rid of Mrs. Hazlitt on very easy terms. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Hazlitt has not the sweep and continuity of Byron's passion. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) At the end of a hard and fruitless struggle with death, Hazlitt murmured, “Well, I’ve had a happy life.” The Vagabond in Literature Hazlitt’s definitions often startle and give a vigorous buffet to our preconceptions. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature The early nineteenth century was too readily convinced by Coleridge and Hazlitt that they were the first to recognise and to explain the greatness of Shakespeare. Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare We shall find this same curious difference everywhere in Hazlitt. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 As the discipline relaxed, the Hazlitts reverted to the ancestral type. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Defects it had, which there is no necessity to dwell on here, but there was a passion in Hazlitt’s nature and writings which we do not find in his contemporary. The Vagabond in Literature Perhaps Hazlitt was not as “respectable” as his poet-friends, but he had a better sense of fair play. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature Though Hazlitt took upon himself the defence of the national intelligence, he incorporated in his Preface a long passage from Schlegel, because, in his opinion, no English critic had shown like enthusiasm or philosophical acuteness. Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare There is indeed no doubt that Hazlitt is one of the most absolutely unequal writers in English, if not in any, literature, Wilson being perhaps his only compeer. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 The brother became a painter of miniatures by profession; and Hazlitt to the end of his days revered Titian almost as much as he revered his great idol Napoleon. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Trying beyond doubt as was the wayward element in Hazlitt’s disposition, to his friends it is not without its charm as a literary characteristic. The Vagabond in Literature For Hazlitt the assertion of individual taste meant emancipation from arbitrary codes and an opportunity to embrace a compass as wide as the range of literary excellence. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature “These colonists,” says Hazlitt, “were called Tyrrhenians, and from their settlements round the mouth of the Po the Venetian stock was ultimately derived.” The Venetian School of Painting The clear sunshine of Hazlitt's admirably acute intellect is always there; but it is constantly obscured by driving clouds of furious prejudice. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 His description of the youthful Coleridge has a fit pendant in the wonderful description of the full-blown philosopher in Carlyle's 'Life of Sterling;' where, indeed, one or two touches are taken from Hazlitt's Essays. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) I can see little genuine humour in either Hazlitt or De Quincey. The Vagabond in Literature What extravagance of tone Hazlitt displayed in his early criticism he carried with him to his last day. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature Thanks to Hazlitt's spirited memoir, based as it was on ample autobiographical notes, no personality of this group stands before us so clearly limned, and there is none more attractive. Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle Hazlitt, who was more than indirectly concerned in the affair, had a professed objection to duelling, which would have been more creditable to him if he had not been avowedly of a timid temper. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Hazlitt, in spite of this double failure, does not73 seem to have been much disturbed by impecuniosity; but the most determined Bohemian has to live. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) This bright-eyed Norfolk giant took more kindly to the roughnesses of life than did Hazlitt and De Quincey. The Vagabond in Literature Among the numerous attempts of his contemporaries to define the creative faculty of the poet, this comparatively simple one of Hazlitt’s is worth noting. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature Godwin, to quote Hazlitt's rather cruel phrase, had "sunk below the horizon," in his later years, and enjoyed "the serene twilight of a doubtful immortality." Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle But the most curious example of Hazlitt's weaknesses is the language he uses in regard to those men with whom he had both political and literary differences. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 It is an apparent paradox, though the explanation is not far to seek, that Hazlitt, though shy with his friends, was the most unreserved of writers. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) No thinker like Hazlitt, no dreamer like De p. 59Quincey; but a shrewd observer with the most amazing knack of ingratiating himself with strangers. The Vagabond in Literature And he singles out as the best example of such criticism the well-known appreciation of Shakespeare, the very passage which Hazlitt later quoted as “the best character of Shakespeare that has ever been written.” Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature Yet he blazed in the last decade of the eighteenth century, as Hazlitt has told us, "as a sun in the firmament of reputation." Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle Alas for dates and circumstances, for times and seasons, when they stand in the way of a fling of Hazlitt's! Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Hazlitt chose, in the strange book called the 'New Pygmalion,' or 'Liber Amoris,' to invite the British public at large to look on at a strange tragi-comedy, of which the last scene was scarcely finished. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) When Hazlitt speaks of the “tinsel and splendid patchwork” of Collins, “mixed with the solid, sterling ore of his genius,” he speaks of a base material not to be found there. The Poetical Works of William Collins With a Memoir This passage, in connection with the one last quoted, may be considered as fixing the limits within which Hazlitt gave scope to personal preference. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature With The Enquirer we are just entering the generation of Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt. Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle To see how nearly Hazlitt can reach the level of a rather older and cleverer George Osborne, turn to the paper here on Classical Education. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 They had already separated, it seems, when Hazlitt fell desperately in love with Miss Sarah Walker, the daughter of his lodging-house keeper. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) That evening Mrs. Livermore gave her belated dissertation and, upon motion, was followed by Adele Hazlitt, who with great courtesy slew her weak arguments. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV Hazlitt’s earlier years reveal a restless conflict of the sensitive and the intellectual. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature Hazlitt's coarse attack on him in the Edinburgh Review he considered as an offset to the undue praise he had received from other quarters. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 1 July 1848 Miss Railton was one of Hazlitt's many loves: it was, perhaps, fortunate for her that the course of the love did not run smooth. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Some months had to be spent by Mr. and Mrs. Hazlitt in Edinburgh, with a view to this arrangement. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) A Mrs. Hazlitt holds, with her farm, about twenty or thirty acres of slobland reclaimed from the Atlantic. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule Hazlitt impressed something of his personality on whatever he touched. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature It disarmed even the keen hostility of Hazlitt, and kept him for a whole forenoon spell-bound beneath its power. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. It is true that this was significant enough, for it came from William Hazlitt. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 The 'Liber Amoris' tells us accordingly that the author, Hazlitt's imaginary double, died abroad, 'of disappointment preying on a sickly frame and morbid state of mind.' Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Compare him or these tragedies with Goethe, with Schlegel, with Coleridge, with Hazlitt, with Ulrici, and it will be found that he excels them all in completeness. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 In his essays the features of Hazlitt’s personality may be plainly recognized, and these reveal a triple ancestry. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature Some essayists, like Johnson, have been as solemn as the true clerical performer, and some have diverged into the humorous with Charles Lamb, or the cynical with Hazlitt. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice But there are two passages in this tirade which alone might show how great a critic Hazlitt himself was. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 He hates insolence in the abstract, but his hatred flames into passion when it is insolence to Hazlitt. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) In his mind he went further than Hazlitt, or came short of him, in refusing the consolation of our race's superiority in poetry because it was will and passion. Imaginary Interviews From the point of view of the practical man, Hazlitt’s life would be declared a failure. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature That Journal of Mr Sterling's, published in the Westminster Review, Mr. Hazlitt has reprinted in the Prolegomena to his edition of the Essays. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IX (of X) - America - I Hazlitt, it is true, has not followed up the attack, as I shall hope to show in an instant; but he has indicated the right line of it. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Tyranny with Hazlitt is named Pitt, party spite is Gifford, apostasy is Southey, and fidelity may be called Cobbett or Godwin; though he finds names for the vices much more easily than for the virtues. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) It had occurred to him in connection with an old essay of Hazlitt's, which he had been reading, on the comparative methods of English and French painters in their work. Imaginary Interviews These two examples illustrate Hazlitt’s manner of presenting both views of a subject by concentrating his attention on each separately and examining it without regard to the other. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature These have been culled by the affectionate admiration of Lamb, Hunt, and Hazlitt, and made familiar to all English readers. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 The absence of selection, of the discarding of details that are not wanted, has no doubt a great deal to do with this—Hazlitt seems to have thought that it had everything to do. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Perhaps he is a little daunted by the greatness of his task, and perhaps there is something in the Shakespearian width of sympathy and in the Shakespearian humour which lies beyond Hazlitt's sphere. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Of those adapted to English or Scotish uses there is an account in Hazlitt's Collections; but we may look in the early future for an exhaustive monograph from the pen of Mr. Jacobus Weale. The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time As the phrase is ordinarily understood, Hazlitt’s dying expression might seem unaccountable. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature We can all recall unexpected delights like Hazlitt's in the odd volume of Rousseau found on the window-seat, and discussed, with his savoury supper, in the roadside inn, after his long day's pleasant tramp. Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life Yet it contains some admirable passages on Shakespeare, if not on Hazlitt; and it would be impossible to deny that its hinted condemnation of Hazlitt's "desultory and capricious acuteness" is just enough. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Hazlitt was quite incapable of such a solecism. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Further information will be found collected on this and the topics which we notice below in Hazlitt's Popular Antiquities, 1870. The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time Of the actual application of historical principles, which were just beginning to be realized in the study of literature, we find only a few faint traces in Hazlitt. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature This idea of liberty, it is evident, is perfectly consistent with the materialistic fatalism of Hobbes, which is so much admired by Mr. Hazlitt. A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory Hazlitt himself denied himself wit, yet if this was mock humility, I am inclined to think that he spoke truth unwittingly. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 The traits recur to us when we read Hazlitt's descriptions of the men he had known. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) It would be manifestly absurd to praise Chesterton as being equal to Hazlitt, or condemn him as being inferior to J.S. Gilbert Keith Chesterton Doubtless Hazlitt’s discriminating judgment would have enabled him to excel in this field, had he been equipped with the necessary learning. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature Is it not strange that Mr. Hazlitt, after adopting this definition of liberty, should have supposed that he allowed a real freedom to the will? A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory I can only say that I know no critic with whom on this point I differ so seldom as with Hazlitt. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Brooding over his injuries and his desertions, Hazlitt has pondered almost with the eagerness of a lover upon the qualities of his intimates. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Educated at Christ's Hospital and Pembroke College, Cambridge, he came to London and soon joined the famous literary circle of which Hunt, Lamb and Hazlitt were prominent members. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" After all these shortcomings have been acknowledged, the permanence of Hazlitt’s achievement appears only the more remarkable. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature And Hazlitt's judgment on him, that he is "jejune" and "frigid" will, as Lamb himself hinted, long remain the chiefest and most astonishing example of a great critic's aberrations when his prejudices are concerned. A History of Elizabethan Literature The generalisations are not always sound, for, as must be constantly repeated, Hazlitt was not widely read in literatures other than his own, and his standpoint for comparison is therefore rather insufficient. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 The story of Hazlitt's life has been told by his grandson; but there is a rather curious defect of materials for so recent a biography. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) The house had formerly a magnificent garden, to the mulberries of which Hazlitt makes allusion in one of his essays. Chelsea The Fascination of London This does not begin to suggest Hazlitt’s versatility. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature Had Hazlitt been criticising Thomas Watson, his judgment, though harsh, would have been not wholly easy to quarrel with. A History of Elizabethan Literature He is admirable on Burns; and nothing can be more unjust or sillier than to pretend, as has been pretended, that Burns's loose morality engaged Hazlitt on his side. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 This'—for in Hazlitt lies a personal application in all his moralising—'This is better than the whirligig life of a court poet'—such, for example, as Robert Southey. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Hazlitt was thinking of such experiences, knowing perhaps the stealthiness and duplicity which the fear of them develops in the honest but polite, when he recommended that one should take one's walks alone. Hortus Vitae Essays on the Gardening of Life Macaulay sometimes assimilated a passage of Hazlitt’s to the needs of his own earlier essays. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature To those who are perplexed by these double meanings the best remark is Hazlitt's blunt one that "the allegory won't bite them." A History of Elizabethan Literature Let me repeat then that the peculiar value of Jeffrey is not, as is that of Coleridge, of Hazlitt, or of Lamb, in very subtle, very profound, or very original views of his subjects. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Hazlitt himself,71 his brother and his sister, were painters by instinct. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Hazlitt. lesson, take up her studies at school, assist in performing the household duties, and in doing the many tasks that come to her hands in a joyous, whole-hearted manner. The Girl Wanted At the conclusion of his last lecture, Hazlitt told the story of a Brahmin who, on being transformed into a monkey, “had no other delight than that of eating cocoanuts and studying metaphysics.” Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature Coleridge is acknowledged as, with his contemporaries Lamb and Hazlitt, the founder of modern appreciation. A History of Elizabethan Literature The following paper was in great part composed, when I came across some sentences on Hazlitt, written indeed before I was born, but practically unpublished until the other day. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 But the most unscrupulous of biographers would hardly have dared to tear aside the veil so audaciously as Hazlitt, in one conspicuous instance at least, chose to do for himself. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Such are some of the more striking manifestations of this remarkable genius who alone, says Hazlitt, has the right to be considered as the painter of classical antiquity. The Story of Paris But it must have become apparent to Hazlitt and his friends that he possessed a talent more profitable than that of abstract speculation. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature Hazlitt has succeeded in quoting many beautiful passages, one of which was curiously echoed in the next age by Nat. A History of Elizabethan Literature It is not, however, only of Hazlitt's rather imperfectly known life, or of his pretty generally acknowledged character, that I wish to speak here. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Hazlitt, indeed, was incapable of the superlative self-esteem here attributed to Wordsworth. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) The only justice that has yet been done to her is by Hazlitt, in the "Characters of Shakspeare's Plays." Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical The union of the philosopher, the enthusiast, and the man of the world is fairly unusual in literature, but in Hazlitt’s case the union was not productive of any sharp contradictions. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature Lamb, while ranking a single speech of Bellafront's very high, speaks with rather oblique approval of the play, and Hazlitt, though enthusiastic for it, admires chiefly old Friscobaldo and the ne'er-do-well Matheo. A History of Elizabethan Literature Hazlitt is always the same when he is not different, when his political or personal ails and angers do not obscure his critical judgment. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Hazlitt is speaking in the character of Timon, which indeed fits him rather too easily. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Hazlitt tells us in a famous passage with what relish he once read "The New Eloise" on a walking trip. Chimney-Pot Papers Hazlitt has indeed himself characterized his art in some such terms. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature Hazlitt disliked it much; and though this is chiefly to be accounted for by the monarchical tone of it, it is certainly faulty in parts. A History of Elizabethan Literature Indeed, I am afraid that "gentleman" is exactly what cannot be predicated of Hazlitt. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 To one virtue, however, that of political constancy, Hazlitt lays claim in the most emphatic terms. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) I am quite unfamiliar with the book, yet as often as I read the essay—which is the best of Hazlitt—I have been teased to buy it. Chimney-Pot Papers Yet one may ask whether in the entire extent of Hazlitt’s writing a great living genius has been turned into a mockery or a figurehead been set up for the admiration of posterity. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature What Carew really is, and what he may be peremptorily declared to be in opposition even to such a critic as Hazlitt, is something quite different. A History of Elizabethan Literature It was not till 1812 that they removed to London, and that Hazlitt engaged in writing for the newspapers. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Had Hazlitt lived in France, and come into collision with press laws, it is likely enough that his sentiments would have changed. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Hear next Wilson's great rival in criticism, Hazlitt. The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, November 1875 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad. One feature of Hazlitt’s style concerning which much has been said both in praise and in blame is his inveterate use of quotations. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature I own that I am with Hazlitt, not Lamb, on the question of the admired death scene of Calantha. A History of Elizabethan Literature Little has to be said about the rest of Hazlitt's life. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Hazlitt's enthusiasm remained, but became the enthusiasm of regret87 instead of hope. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) He was attacked by Mill himself, and savagely denounced by Byron and Hazlitt. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill Hazlitt had not been writing many years before his fellow-laborers in literature began to recognize and pay homage to his superior insight. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature Even Mr. Hazlitt's welcome, if somewhat uncritical, reprint of Dodsley, long out of print, did not boldly carry out its principle—though there are plans for improving and supplementing it. A History of Elizabethan Literature As for his politics, Hazlitt seems to me to have had no clear political creed at all. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 No more ardent devotee of the Napoleonic legend ever existed, and Hazlitt's last years were employed in writing a book which is a political pamphlet as much as a history. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Hazlitt's performance is sufficiently significant of the general tendency. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill In the first place it provides the materials for an estimate of the character and scope of Hazlitt’s contributions to criticism and so acquaints students with one of the greatest of English critics. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature A notable later version was made by William Hazlitt. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II. All fights are good reading; but this particular effort of Hazlitt's makes one sigh for a Boxiana or Pugilistica edited by him. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Lamb said that Hazlitt was a greater authority when he praised than when he abused, a doctrine which may be true of others than Hazlitt. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Hazlitt had been an enthusiastic admirer of Godwin, and retained as much of the enthusiasm as his wayward prejudices would allow. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill There is no great critic who by his readableness and comprehensiveness is as well qualified as Hazlitt to aid in bringing home to students the power and the beauty of the essential things in literature. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature Satisfactory collections of proverbial sayings useful in finding expressions for the wisdom found in fables are Christy, Proverbs, Maxims, and Phrases of All Ages; Hazlitt, English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases; Trench, Proverbs and Their Lessons. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes "On Paradox and Commonplace" is less remarkable for its contribution to the discussion of the subject, than as exhibiting one of Hazlitt's most curious critical megrims—his dislike of Shelley. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 The true distinction is rather that Hazlitt, though always unsafe as a judge, is admirable as an advocate in his own cause, and poor when merely speaking from his brief. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Hazlitt could forgive any policy which meant the humiliation of the men whom he most heartily hated. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill Hazlitt was not a republican, and he disapproved of the Utopian rhapsodies of Shelley, woven as they seemed of mere moonshine, without applicability to the evils that demanded immediate reform. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature The letter I sent you was directed to the care of E. White, India House, for Mrs. Hazlitt: which Mrs. Hazlitt I don't yet know; but A. has taken it to France on speculation. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 With Hazlitt, with Coleridge, with Wilson, with Carlyle, with Macaulay, we very soon fall into step, so to speak, with our author. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Hazlitt learnt something in his later years from Lamb. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) The personal rancour of which Hazlitt was unfortunately capable leads to monstrous imputations. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill The news of Waterloo plunged Hazlitt into deep distress, as if it had been the shock of a personal calamity. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature In a letter to Hazlitt he writes, "I am so smoky with last night's ten pipes, that I must leave off." Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce Almost immediately on his return, he made acquaintance with the Lambs, and, as Mr. W. C. Hazlitt, his grandson and biographer, thinks, with Miss Stoddart, his future wife. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Lamb, says Hazlitt, tried old authors 'on his palate as epicures taste olives;' and the delicacy of discrimination which makes the process enjoyable is perhaps the highest qualification of a good critic. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) This foul blow is too characteristic of Hazlitt's usual method; but indicates also the tone which could be taken by contemporary journalism. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill The signal for the attack on Hazlitt was given by the Quarterly in connection with a review of The Round Table, Hazlitt’s first book. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature Love for Love was the most popular of Congreve’s comedies: it held the stage so long that Hazlitt could say, ‘it still acts and is still acted well.’ The Comedies of William Congreve Volume 1 [of 2] Prejudiced as he often was, he was not affected by the wild gusts of personal and political passion which frequently blew Hazlitt a thousand miles off the course of true criticism. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Hazlitt's point of view was rather different, nor can we ascribe to him without qualification that exquisite appreciation of purely literary charm which is so rare and so often affected. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) That is, says Hazlitt, Malthus would leave children to starvation, though he professes to disapprove infanticide. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill The climax of abuse was reached in an article entitled “Hazlitt Cross-Questioned,” which a sense of decency makes it impossible to reproduce, and which resulted in the payment of damages to the victim. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature They took my "Horne"—and "Horne Tooke" too, And thus my treasures flit; I feel when I would "Hazlitt" view, The flames that it has lit. The Book of Humorous Verse The only exception to be taken to the well-known panegyric of Elia is, that it bestows this eulogy on Hazlitt "in his natural and healthy state." Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 The calm assertion that the qualities of the Poems are the reverse of the qualities of the plays is unworthy of Hazlitt's general acuteness. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) |
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