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Author Hazlitt, William, 1778-1830.

Title Table talk : or, Original essays / by William Hazlitt.

Publication Info. London : J.M. Dent; [[1908]
New York : E.P. Dutton, [[1908]
©1908

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 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  824 HAZLITT    Check Shelf
Description ix, 337 pages ; 18 cm.
Series Everyman's library. Essays and belles lettres ; no. 321
Everyman's library. Essays and belles lettres ; no. 321.
Note Introduction signed: E.R. [id est Ernest Rhys].
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page ix).
Contents On the pleasure of painting -- The same subject continued -- On the past and future -- On genius and common sense -- The same subject continued -- Character of Cobbett -- On people with one idea -- On the ignorance of the learned -- The Indian jugglers -- On living to one's-self -- On thought and action -- On will-making -- On certain inconsistencies in Sir Joshua Reynolds's discourses -- The same subject continued -- On paradox and common-place -- On vulgarity and affectation -- On a landscape of Nicholas Poussin -- On Milton's sonnets -- On going a journey -- On coffee-house politicians -- On the aristocracy of letters -- On criticism -- On great and little things -- On familiar style -- On effeminacy of character -- Why distant objects please -- On corporate bodies -- Whether actors ought to sit in the boxes -- On the disadvantages of intellectual superiority -- On patronage and puffing -- On the knowledge of character -- On the picturesque and ideal -- On the fear of death.
Subject English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
English literature. (OCoLC)fst00911989
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
Added Title Original essays
Other Form: Online version: Hazlitt, William, 1778-1830. Table talk. London, J.M. Dent; New York, E.P. Dutton [©1908] (OCoLC)647371979
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