The collected works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 11 (of 12)Hazlitt, William
Philosophy
The collected works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 11 (of 12)
Hazlitt, William
English essays -- 19th century
1. ‘_Literary Remains of the late William Hazlitt._ With a Notice of his
Life, By his Son, and Thoughts on his Genius and Writings, By E. L.
Bulwer, Esq., M.P. and Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, M.P. In Two Volumes.
London: Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street. 1836.’ Vol. I. contained (as
a frontispiece) Bewick’s crayon drawing of Hazlitt reproduced in vol.
VIII. of the present edition; a Sonnet ‘written on seeing Bewick’s
Chalk-Drawing of the Head of Hazlitt’ by Sheridan Knowles; a
‘Biographical Sketch’ of Hazlitt by his son; ‘Some Thoughts on the
Genius of William Hazlitt’ signed ‘The Author of “Eugene Aram”‘;
‘Thoughts upon the Intellectual Character of the late William Hazlitt,’
by Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, M.P.; ‘Character of Hazlitt,’ by Charles Lamb,
extracted from the well-known ‘Letter of Elia to Robert Southey, Esq.’
(1823); six ‘Sonnets to the Memory of Hazlitt’ by ‘A Lady’; and the
following essays by Hazlitt, viz.: (i) Project for a new Theory of Civil
and Criminal Legislation, (ii) Definition of Wit, (iii) On Means and
Ends, (iv) Belief, whether Voluntary? (v) Personal Politics, (vi) On the
Writings of Hobbes, (vii) On Liberty and Necessity, (viii) On Locke’s
Essay on the Human Understanding, and (ix) On Tooke’s Diversions of
Purley.—Vol. II. contained the following essays by Hazlitt, viz.: (i) On
Self-Love, (ii) On the Conduct of Life; or, Advice to a School-boy,
(iii) On the Fine Arts, (iv) The Fight, (v) On the Want of Money, (vi)
On the Feeling of Immortality in Youth, (vii) The Main-Chance, (viii)
The Opera, (ix) Of Persons One Would Wish to Have Seen, (x) My First
Acquaintance with Poets, (xi) The Shyness of Scholars, (xii) The
Vatican, and (xiii) On the Spirit of Monarchy. Of these, the essay ‘On
the Fine Arts’ and the essay on ‘The Vatican’ are included in vol. IX.
of the present edition; the rest are published in this volume or in vol.
XII.
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