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TABLE-TALK


OR,


ORIGINAL ESSAYS.

BY WILLIAM HAZLITT.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR HENRY COLBURN AND CO.


MDCCCXXII.




LONDON:

PRINTED RY THOMAS DAVISON, WHITEFRIARS.


CONTENTS.





Page
Essay I.—On a Landscape of Nicholas Poussin 1
Essay II.—On Milton’s Sonnets 17
Essay III.—On going a Journey 33
Essay IV.—On Coffee-house Politicians 55
Essay V.—On the Aristocracy of Letters 91
Essay VI.—On Criticism 115
Essay VII.—On great and little Things 145
Essay VIII.—On familiar Style 183
Essay IX.—On Effeminacy of Character 199
Essay X.—Why distant Objects please 217
Essay XI.—On Corporate Bodies 239
Essay XII.—Whether Actors ought to sit in the Boxes 261
Essay XIII.—On the Disadvantages of intellectual Superiority 279
Essay XIV.—On Patronage and Puffing 303
Essay XV.—On the Knowledge of Character 335
Essay XVI.—On the Picturesque and Ideal 369
Essay XVII.—On the Fear of Death 381


ERRATA.

Page 221, lines 22, 23, for affairs men, read affairs of men.
Page 272, line 26, for gauntlets, read gauntlet.
Page 276, line 11, for sphere to, read sphere of.
Page 277, line 8, for from, read for.
Page 286, line 9, comma after feel it.
Page 286, lines 14, 15, for and must, read and they must.
Page 301, line 11, for teachers, read thinkers.
Page 330, line 21, for hauled, read hailed.
Page 332, line 9, for invited, read invited out.
Page 358, line 22, omit of.


This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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