William Hazlitt (1778-1830)
English essayist and literary critic; author of Characters of
Shakespeare's Plays (1817), Lectures on the English Poets
(1818), and The Spirit of the Age (1825).
English essayist and literary critic; author of Characters of
Shakespeare's Plays (1817), Lectures on the English Poets
(1818), and The Spirit of the Age (1825).
“Boswell redivivus” in
New Monthly Magazine.
“Table-talk (No. IV): Burleigh House” in
New Monthly Magazine.
Characteristics: in the Manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims.
Conversations of James Northcote, Esq., R. A..
An Essay on the Principles of Human Action: being an Argument in favour of the
natural Disinterestedness of the Human Mind. To which are added, some Remarks on the
Systems of Hartley and Helvetius.
“Essay on the Spirit of Monarchy” in
The Liberal.
“The Fight” in
New Monthly Magazine.
“Landor's Imaginary Conversations” in
Edinburgh Review.
Liber amoris: or the New Pygmalion.
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Memoirs of the late Thomas Holcroft.
“On Coffee-house Politicians” in
Table-talk, or, Original Essays.
“On Dreams” in
The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things.
“On Living to Oneself,” in
Table-talk, or, Original Essays.
“On Jealousy and Spleen of Party” in
The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things.
“On Patronage and Puffing” in
Table-talk, or, Original Essays.
“On Spurzheim's Theory” in
The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things.
“On the Conduct of Life; or, Advice to a Schoolboy” in
Table-talk, or, Original Essays.
“On the Disadvantages of Intellectual Superiority” in
Table-talk, or, Original Essays.
“On the Fear of Death” in
Table-talk, or, Original Essays.
“On the Knowledge of Character” in
Table-talk, or, Original Essays.
“On the Pleasures of Painting” in
Table-talk, or, Original Essays.
“On the Regal Character” in
Political Essays, with Sketches of Public Characters.
“On the Spirit of Obligations” in
New Monthly Magazine.
The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things.
Sketches of the Principal Picture-Galleries in England, with a Criticism on
Marriage a-la-mode.
The Spirit of the Age, or, Contemporary Portraits.
Table-talk, or, Original Essays.
“Why Actors should not sit in the Boxes” in
Table-talk, or, Original Essays.
