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He confessed that one day he told it half a dozen times or so to persons he had never seen before: once, twice over to the same listener.
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That damsel presently married in her station. She seems to have been a decent woman according to her lights, and to have lived up honestly to her ideals, such as they were.
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There was a laughing devil in his sneer That raised emotions both of rage and fear; And where his frown of hatred darkly fell, Hope, withering, fled--and Mercy sighed farewell.
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These details are Patmore's, and, even if they be true, are not the whole truth. Hazlitt loved solitude and the country, had to write for a living, wrote with difficulty, and left no inconsiderable body of work.
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What I mean is, that I have heard the best, as I believe, the last of the old century and the first of the new have shown.
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'He always made the best pun and the best remark in the course of the evening. His serious conversation, like his serious writing, is his best. No one ever stammered out such fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in half a dozen half-sentences as he does. His jests scald like tears: and he probes a question with a play upon words. What a keen, laughing, hare-brained vein of home-felt truth! What choice venom!'
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It filled the valley like a mist, And still poured out its endless chant, And still it swells upon the ear, And wraps me in a golden trance, Drowning the noisy tumult of the world.
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Like sweetest warblings from a sacred grove ... Contending with the wild winds as they roar ... And the proud places of the insolent And the oppressor fell ... Such and so little is the mind of Man!
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Listen, else, to Lamb himself: 'Protesting against much that he has written, and some things which he chooses to do; judging him by his conversation which I enjoyed so long, and relished so deeply; or by his books, in those places where no clouding passion intervenes, I should belie my own conscience if I said less than that I think W. H. to be, in his natural and healthy state, one of the wisest and finest spirits breathing. So far from being ashamed of that intimacy which was betwixt us, it is my boast that I was able for so many years to have preserved it entire; and I think I shall go to my grave without finding or expecting to find such another companion.' Thus does one Royalty celebrate the kingship and enrich the immortality of another.
EDITORS' PREFACE
In the case of works published in book form by Hazlitt himself the latest edition published in his lifetime is here reprinted. Some obvious errors of the press have been corrected, but no attempt has been made to modernise or improve Hazlitt's orthography or punctuation. He himself expressed contempt for 'the collating of points and commas,' and was probably a careless proof reader. He did not plume himself, as Boswell did, upon a deliberately adopted orthography, and his punctuation and use of italics were perhaps rather his printers' fancy than his own. However that may be, the Editors feel that there is no justification for any tampering with his text. Essays not republished by Hazlitt himself are printed from the periodical or other publication in which they first appeared.
The notes chiefly contain bibliographical matter, concise biographical details of some of the persons mentioned by Hazlitt, and references to quotations. They also include several passages which Hazlitt omitted from his essays when he came to republish them in book form. Some of these are in themselves worthy of preservation; some help to explain the ferocity of certain contemporary allusions; and it is at any rate interesting to compare what he rejected with what he retained in moments of reflection.
It has been a pleasure to the Editors to have the sympathy and co-operation of Mr. W. Carew Hazlitt, and they desire to thank him for his valuable assistance. At the same time they accept entire responsibility for the errors and failings which may be found in their work.
A. R. W. A. G.
THE ROUND TABLE
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
ADVERTISEMENT TO THE EDITION OF 1817
W. HAZLITT.
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On the Love of Life 1
On Classical Education 4
On the Tatler 7
On Modern Comedy 10
On Mr. Kean's Iago 14
On the Love of the Country 17
On Posthumous Fame.--Whether Shakspeare was influenced by a Love of it? 21
On Hogarth's Marriage a-la-mode 25
The Subject continued 28
On Milton's Lycidas 31
On Milton's Versification 36
On Manner 41
On the Tendency of Sects 47
On John Buncle 51
On the Causes of Methodism 57
On the Midsummer Night's Dream 61
On the Beggar's Opera 65
On Patriotism--A Fragment 67
On Beauty 68
On Imitation 72
On Pedantry 80
The same Subject continued 84
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