The Collected Works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 08 (of 12)

The Collected Works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 08 (of 12)

The first edition (here reprinted) was published in 1819 in one 8vo. volume (343 pp.), with the following title-page:Lectures on the English Comic Writers. Delivered at the Surry Institution. 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: Printed 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 (1900). Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be. We weep at what thwarts or exceeds our desires in serious matters: we laugh at what only disappoints our expectations in trifles. We shed tears from sympathy with real and necessary distress; as we burst into laughter from want of sympathy with that which is unreasonable and unnecessary, the absurdity of which provokes our spleen or mirth, rather than any serious reflections on it. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 59506
Author: Hazlitt, William
Release Date: May 14, 2019
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Editor: Glover, Arnold, 1865-1905 , Waller, A. R. (Alfred Rayney), 1867-1922