Produced by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) THE COLLECTED WORKS OF WILLIAM HAZLITT IN TWELVE VOLUMES VOLUME TWO _All rights reserved_ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Illustration: _Thomas Holcroft._ _From the painting by John Opie, R.A. in the National Portrait Gallery_ ] THE COLLECTED WORKS OF WILLIAM HAZLITT EDITED BY A. R. WALLER AND ARNOLD GLOVER WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY W. E. HENLEY ❦ Memoirs of Thomas Holcroft Liber Amoris Characteristics ❦ 1902 LONDON: J. M. DENT & CO. McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO.: NEW YORK Edinburgh: T. and A. CONSTABLE, (late) Printers to Her Majesty ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENTS PAGE MEMOIRS OF THOMAS HOLCROFT vii LIBER AMORIS 283 CHARACTERISTICS 351 NOTES 421 MEMOIRS OF THE LATE THOMAS HOLCROFT BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE The _Memoirs of the late Thomas Holcroft, Written by Himself and continued to the time of his death, from his diary, notes, and other papers_, were published in three volumes (6⅜ × 3⅞), London, 1816, _printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-row_, by J. M’Creery, Black Horse Court, Fleet Street. The division of the work is explained in Hazlitt’s _Advertisement_. Vol. I. contains Book I. (Mr Holcroft’s Narrative) and Book II.; Vol. II. contains Book III. and seven chapters of Book IV., in the last chapter of which Mr Holcroft’s Diary begins (June 22nd-July 18th, 1798); Vol. III. opens without any reference to a ‘Book’ and heads the conclusion of the Diary (July 19th, 1798–March 12th, 1799) ‘Chap. I.’ In the present edition it has seemed well to ignore this arbitrary ‘Chap. I.’ heading, to run the Diary straight on, and to head Chap. II. in the 3rd vol. Chap. VIII., thus completing Book IV. The remainder of Vol. III. after this chapter is occupied by _Letters to and from the author_.