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There is a fashion just now in criticism to over- accentuate the physical and moral weaknesses of the artist. Lombroso started the fashion, Nordau carried it to its logical absurdity, yet it is nothing new. In Hazlitt's day he complains, that genius is called mad by foolish folk. Mr.
So much for the progress of liberality, and the power of opinion. At page 100 of the "Life of Keats," Vol. I., Mr. Monckton Milnes has quoted a literary portrait of him, which he received from a lady who used to see him at Hazlitt's lectures at the Surrey Institution. The building was on the south or right-hand side, and close to Blackfriars' Bridge.
I've been looking for you to ask you to forgive me." Hazlitt's hands crept over his knees. "Oh, God, you must listen and forgive me." This was a mad monkey uttering noises too unintelligible for even an attentive hat, dress, and pair of shoes to make anything of. "Rachel, I love you. I don't know how to say it. There's something I've got to say. Because ... otherwise I can't love you.
He should have given us more poems the man who, far later, wrote the magnificent Westminster Abbey on such a subject as Dean Stanley, had plenty more poetry in his sack. And in prose he should have given us infinite essays, as many as De Quincey's or as Sainte-Beuve's own, and more than Hazlitt's, of the kind of the Heine and the Joubert earlier, of the Wordsworth and the Byron later.
Month. Rev., 90, 525. Hazlitt's Hist, of Venice. West. Rev., 23, 38. Ruskin's Stones of Venice. Dublin Univ. Mag., 21, 212. There are two Augustines. This is St. Austin, b. in 5th century, d. 604-614. Sharon Turner's Anglo-Saxons. Wm. of Malmesbury. Bede's Ecc. History. Turner as above. Edin. Rev., 89, 79. Ang.-Saxon Chronicle. Quart. Rev., 7, 92. Six old Eng. Chronicles. Eclect. Rev., 25, 669.
You have to tum to Hazlitt's account of the encounter between the Gasman and the Bristol Bull, to feel the savage strength of it all. It is a hardened reader who does not wince even in print before that frightful right-hander which felled the giant, and left him in "red ruin" from eyebrow to jaw.
Lamb's friend Hume was Joseph Hume of the victualling office, Somerset House, to whom letters from Lamb will be found in Mr. W.C. Hazlitt's Lamb and Hazlitt, 1900. Hume translated The Inferno of Dante into blank verse, 1812. The "Beggar's Petition," a stock piece for infant recitation a hundred years ago, was a poem beginning thus:
"When he was in Paris," Hazlitt writes, "and went to Galignani's, he sat down in an outer room to look at some book he wanted to see; none of the clerks had the least suspicion who he was. When it was found out, the place was in a commotion." From Mr. Alexander Ireland's excellent Selections from Hazlitt's writings, 8vo, Lond. 1889, p. 482.
The reference is, of course, to Hazlitt's Spirit of the Age, then lately published In reviewing the poetry of his day Hazlitt has a chapter devoted to Campbell and Crabbe.
To him Napoleon meant the enemy of Pitt and Liverpool and Castlereagh and the Holy Alliance. Hazlitt could forgive any policy which meant the humiliation of the men whom he most heartily hated. His attack upon Malthus was such as might satisfy even Cobbett, whose capacity for hatred, and especially for this particular object of hatred, was equal to Hazlitt's.
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