The spirit of the age: or, Contemporary portraits [by William Hazlitt.].

The spirit of the age: or, Contemporary portraits [by William Hazlitt.]. PDF Author: William Hazlitt
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The spirit of the age: or, Contemporary portraits [by William Hazlitt.].

The spirit of the age: or, Contemporary portraits [by William Hazlitt.]. PDF Author: William Hazlitt
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The Spirit of the Age Or Contemporary Portraits

The Spirit of the Age Or Contemporary Portraits PDF Author: William Hazlitt
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The Spirit of the Age: Or, Contemporary Portraits [By William Hazlitt.]

The Spirit of the Age: Or, Contemporary Portraits [By William Hazlitt.] PDF Author: Anonymous
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The Spirit of the Age: Or, Contemporary Portraits. [By W. Hazlitt.]

The Spirit of the Age: Or, Contemporary Portraits. [By W. Hazlitt.] PDF Author: William Hazlitt
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“The” Spirit of the Age, Or Contemporary Portraits

“The” Spirit of the Age, Or Contemporary Portraits PDF Author: William Hazlitt
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The Spirit of the Age

The Spirit of the Age PDF Author: William Hazlitt
Publisher: Ghose Press
ISBN: 1445508419
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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Originally published in 1846, this American edition of William Hazlitt s early work is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It comprises a collection of portraits of the author s contemporaries, friends and people that he particularly admired. The collection includes poets, authors, politicians and journalists as well as preachers and philosophers. Hazlitt uses razor sharp wit to both celebrate and criticise the subjects of his portraits. This is an unusual book whose 273 pages contain a wealth of information, anecdote and cutting humour that is a fascinating read today. Contents: Jeremy Bentham, William Godwin, Mr. Coleridge, Rev. Mr. Irving, The late Mr. Horne Tooke, Sir Walter Scott, Lord Byron, Mr. Southey, Mr. Wordsworth, Sir James Macintosh, Mr. Malthus, Mr. Gifford, Mr. Jeffrey, Mr. Brougham-Sir F. Burdett, Lord Eldon-Mr. Wilberforce, Mr. Cobbett, Mr. Campbell-Mr. Crabbe, Mr. T. Moore-Mr. Leigh Hunt, Elia-Geoffrey Crayon. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

The Spirit of the Age

The Spirit of the Age PDF Author: William Hazlitt
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ISBN: 3752359897
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 173

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Reproduction of the original: The Spirit of the Age by William Hazlitt

Spirit of the Age

Spirit of the Age PDF Author: William Hazlitt
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Pages : 288

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The Spirit of the Age

The Spirit of the Age PDF Author: William Hazlitt
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The Spirit of the Age Or Contemporary Portraits "To know another well were to know one's self." by William Hazlitt The Spirit of the Age (full title The Spirit of the Age: Or, Contemporary Portraits) is a collection of character sketches by the early 19th century English essayist, literary critic, and social commentator William Hazlitt, portraying 25 men, mostly British, whom he believed to represent significant trends in the thought, literature, and politics of his time. The subjects include thinkers, social reformers, politicians, poets, essayists, and novelists, many of whom Hazlitt was personally acquainted with or had encountered. Originally appearing in English periodicals, mostly The New Monthly Magazine in 1824, the essays were collected with several others written for the purpose and published in book form in 1825. The Spirit of the Age was one of Hazlitt's most successful books. It is frequently judged to be his masterpiece, even "the crowning ornament of Hazlitt's career, and ... one of the lasting glories of nineteenth-century criticism." Hazlitt was also a painter and an art critic, yet no artists number among the subjects of these essays. His artistic and critical sensibility, however, infused his prose style--Hazlitt was later judged to be one of the greatest of English prose stylists as well--enabling his appreciation of portrait painting to help him bring his subjects to life. His experience as a literary, political, and social critic contributed to Hazlitt's solid understanding of his subjects' achievements, and his judgements of his contemporaries were later often deemed to have held good after nearly two centuries. The Spirit of the Age, despite its essays' uneven quality, has been generally agreed to provide "a vivid panorama of the age". Yet, missing an introductory or concluding chapter, and with few explicit references to any themes, it was for long also judged as lacking in coherence and hastily thrown together. More recently, critics have found in it a unity of design, with the themes emerging gradually, by implication, in the course of the essays and even supported by their grouping and presentation.

The Spirit of the Age

The Spirit of the Age PDF Author: William Hazlitt
Publisher: Nabu Press
ISBN: 9781293424957
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Languages : en
Pages : 434

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.