[47] "Savoir bien lire un livre en le jugeant chemin faisant, et sans cesser de le gouter, c'est presque tout l'art du critique." _Chateaubriand et son Groupe Litteraire_, I, 234. [48] _Portraits Contemporains_, "Sonnet d'Hazlitt," II, 515. [49] _Age of Elizabeth_, "On Miscellaneous Poems," V, 301. [50] "Thoughts on Taste," XI, 460. [51] _Conversations of Northcote_, VI, 457. [52] Cf. Herford: _Age of Wordsworth_, p. 51. [53] "On the Conduct of Life," XII, 427. [54] Patmore: _My Friends and Acquaintances_, III, 122. [55] "On the Conduct of Life," XII, 428. See also the paper "On the Study of the Classics," in the _Round Table_. [56] See a note to p. 329. [57] See Wordsworth's sonnet, "Great men have been among us." [58] "On Criticism," in _Table Talk_. [59] "He is the most illuminating and the most thoughtful of all Rousseau's early English critics.... His essay 'On the Character of Rousseau' was not surpassed, or approached, as a study of the great writer until the appearance of Lord Morley's monograph nearly sixty years afterwards." E. Gosse: _Fortnightly Review_, July, 1912, p. 30. [60] In the review of Schlegel's _Lectures on the Drama_, Works, X, 78. [61] See the paper on "John Buncle," in the _Round Table_. [62] _Correspondence of Macvey Napier_, p. 21. [63] "On the Pleasure of Painting," in _Table Talk_. [64] _Dramatic Essays_, VIII, 415. [65] "On Shakespeare and Milton," p. 44. [66] "The Periodical Press," X, 203. [67] "On Criticism," in _Table Talk_. [68] Cf. "On Reading Old Books," pp. 338-9, where this charge is curiously echoed by Hazlitt himself. [69] Ibid., p. 337. [70] Ibid., p. 340. [71] "On Shakespeare and Milton," p. 109. [72] "The English Novelists," VIII, 109. [73] "Thoughts on Taste," XI, 463. [74] "On Criticism," in _Table Talk_. [75] Ibid. [76] _Characters of Shakespeare_, "Lear." [77] "On Poetry in General," p. 258. [78] "On Poetry in General," p. 266. [79] Hazlitt defends himself on the ground that "the word has these three _distinct_ meanings in the English language, that is, it signifies the composition produced, the state of mind or faculty producing it, and, in certain cases, the subject-matter proper to call forth that state of mind." _Letter to Gifford_, I, 396. [80] "On Poetry in General," pp. 268-9. [81] Ibid., p. 268. [82] Those interested in the perennial discussion of the relation of poetry to verse or metre would do well to read the recent interesting contribution to the subject by Professor Mackail in his _Lectures on Poetry_ (Longmans, 1912). [83] "On the Causes of Popular Opinion," XII, 320. [84] Coleridge: _Table Talk_, Aug. 6, 1832. [85] _Edinburgh Review_, Feb., 1816. The nature of Hazlitt's debt to Coleridge, Lamb and Schlegel is to some extent illustrated in the notes to the present text. [86] "Whether Genius is Conscious of its Powers," in _Plain Speaker_. [87] Moore's _Letters and Journals_, May 21, 1821, III, 235. [88] _Shakespeare's Maedchen und Frauen_.