The Collected Works of William Hazlitt - Couverture rigide

Hazlitt, William

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 054822935X ISBN 13 : 9780548229354

Editeur : Kessinger Publishing, 2007

Synopsis

The Collected Works Of William Hazlitt is a comprehensive collection of the writings of the English essayist, literary critic, and philosopher William Hazlitt. This book contains a wide range of Hazlitt's works, including essays, articles, reviews, and lectures, covering topics such as literature, politics, art, and society. The collection is divided into several volumes, each focusing on a different aspect of Hazlitt's career and interests. The book provides readers with a unique insight into the mind of one of the most influential thinkers of the 19th century, whose ideas and opinions continue to resonate with readers today. Hazlitt's writing is characterized by its wit, clarity, and intellectual depth, making this collection a must-read for anyone interested in the history of English literature and philosophy.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Hazlitt sfather, a minister io the Unitarian Charch, was the son of an Antrim dissenter, who had removed to Tipperary; Hazlitt smother was the daughter of a Cambridgeshire yeoman; so that there is small room for wonder if Hazlitt were all his life distinguished by a fine pugnadousness of mind, a fiery courage, an excellent doggedness of temper, and (not to crack the wind of the poor metaphor) a brilliancy in the use of his hands unequalled in his time, and since his time, by any writing Englishman. Of course, he was very much else; or this monument to his genius would scarce be building, this draft to his credit would have been drawn for To-M orrow on To-D ay. But, while he lived, his fighting talent was the sole thing in his various and splendid gift that was evident to the powers that were; and, inasmuch as he loved nothing so dearly as asserting himself to the disadvantage of certain superstitions which the said powers esteemed the very stuff of life, they did their utmost to dissemble his uncommon merits, and to present him to the world at large as a person whose morals were deplorable, whose nose was pimpled, whose mind was lewd, whose character would no more bear inspection than his English, whose heart and soul and taste were irremediable, and who, as he persisted in regarding the Corsican fiend as a culmination of human genius and character, must for that reason especially (but there were many others) be execrated as a public enemy, and stuck in the pillory whenever, in the black malice of his corrupt and poisonous heart, he sought, by feigning an affection for Shakespeare, or an interest in metaphysics, to.recommend his vulgar, mean, pernicious personality to the attention of a loyal. God-fearing, church-going, tax-paying, Pope-and-P retender-hating British Public.
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Présentation de l'éditeur

The first edition (here reprinted) was published in 1819 in one 8vo. volume (3+3 PPO i with the following title-page: Lectures on the English Comic Writers. Delivered at the Surry I nstitution. By William Hazlitt. It is a very good office one man does another, when he tells him the manner of his being pleased. Steele. London !P rinted for Taylor and Hessey, 93. Fleet Street. 1819. The volume was printed by J. Miller, Noble Street, Cheapside. The third edition (the second having been presumably a mere re-print of the first), edited by the authors son and published by Templeman, appeared in 1841, and included some additions collected from various sources. These additions are referred to in the notes to the present volume. The first edition was republished by Mr. W. C. Hazlitt in Bohns Library in 1869, and the third edition has quite recently been included in the Temple Classics series under the immediate editorial care of Mr. Austin Dobson
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kessinger Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 054822935X
• ISBN 13: 9780548229354
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 448
• Éditeur: Waller A R
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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