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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