[89] Review of Schlegel's Lectures, Works, X, III. [90] "Poetry," XII, 339. [91] _Characters of Shakespeare's Plays_, "Antony and Cleopatra." [92] Lowell: _Old English Dramatists_. [93] _Lecture on the Age of Elizabeth_, "On Beaumont and Fletcher," V, 269. [94] _Conversation of Northcote_, VI, 393. [95] _Essays in English Literature_, Second Series. 159-161. [96] There seems to be no reason for doubting Hazlitt's authorship of the article in the _Examiner_. See Works, XI, 580. [97] "William Gifford," in _Spirit of the Age_. [98] _Select British Poets_. See Works, V, 378. [99] "Shelley's Posthumous Poems," Works, X, 256 ff. [100] Hazlitt's syntax is often abbreviated, elliptical, and unregardful of book rules. Constructions like the following are not uncommon in his prose: "As a novelist, his Vicar of Wakefield has charmed all Europe.... As a comic writer, his Tony Lumpkin draws forth new powers from Mr. Liston's face." _Lectures on the English Poets_, "On Swift, Young," etc., V, 119, 120. [101] _Spirit of the Age_, "William Cobbett." [102] See pp. 210-213. [103] "On the Living Poets," in _Lectures on the English Poets_, V, 167. [104] This is the form of the passage as published in the _Literary Remains_ (1836). That Hazlitt did not attain effects like this offhand, is evident from the comparative feebleness of the original sound of the passage in the _Monthly Magazine_: "That we should thus in a manner outlive ourselves, and dwindle imperceptibly into nothing, is not surprising, when even in our prime the strongest impressions leave so little traces of themselves behind, and the last object is driven out by the succeeding one." "On the Feeling of Immortality in Youth," Works, XII, 160. [105] This passage also shows alterations from the first form. Cf. XII, 152. [106] _Lectures on the English Poets_. "On Swift, Young, etc.," V, 104. See also the paper in _Table Talk_ on "Familiar Style." [107] "I grant thus much, that it is in vain to seek for the word we want, or endeavour to get at it second-hand, or as a paraphrase on some other word--it must come of itself, or arise out of an immediate impression or lively intuition of the subject; that is, the proper word must be suggested immediately by the thoughts, but it need not be presented as soon as called for.... Proper expressions rise to the surface from the heat and fermentation of the mind, like bubbles on an agitated stream. It is this which produces a clear and sparkling style." "On Application to Study," in _Plain Speaker_. [108] _Spirit of the Age_. "Mr. Cobbett." [109] Ibid., "William Godwin." [110] "On the Living Poets," _Lectures on English Poets_, V, 144. [111] _Lectures on the Comic Writers_, "On Wycherley, Congreve, etc.," VIII, 70. [112] _Spirit of the Age_, "Mr. T. Moore," IV, 353. [113] _Table Talk_, "On Patronage and Puffing."