THE BEGGAR’S OPERA
One of Hazlitt’s ‘Theatrical Examiners,’ and published inThe Examineron June 18, 1815.
‘Ut flos in saeptis secretus nascitur hortis,’ etc.
‘Ut flos in saeptis secretus nascitur hortis,’ etc.
‘Ut flos in saeptis secretus nascitur hortis,’ etc.
‘Ut flos in saeptis secretus nascitur hortis,’ etc.
This fragment is taken from one of the ‘Illustrations of Vetus’ which appeared originally inThe Morning Chronicleand were republished inPolitical Essays.
No. 29 of the Round Table series, and signed inThe Examiner—‘An Amateur.’
No. 30 of the Round Table series.
‘There is a pleasure in poetic pains,Which only poets know.’Cowper’sTask, The Timepiece, ll. 285–286.
‘There is a pleasure in poetic pains,Which only poets know.’Cowper’sTask, The Timepiece, ll. 285–286.
‘There is a pleasure in poetic pains,Which only poets know.’
‘There is a pleasure in poetic pains,
Which only poets know.’
Cowper’sTask, The Timepiece, ll. 285–286.
Cowper’sTask, The Timepiece, ll. 285–286.
No. 40 of the Round Table series.
No. 32 of the Round Table series. Seeante, p. 382, for a reference by Hazlitt to this essay.
‘Nil admirari, prope res est una, Numici,Solaque, quæ possit facere et servare beatum.’—Horace, Ep.I.vi.I.
‘Nil admirari, prope res est una, Numici,Solaque, quæ possit facere et servare beatum.’—Horace, Ep.I.vi.I.
‘Nil admirari, prope res est una, Numici,Solaque, quæ possit facere et servare beatum.’—Horace, Ep.I.vi.I.
‘Nil admirari, prope res est una, Numici,
Solaque, quæ possit facere et servare beatum.’—Horace, Ep.I.vi.I.
THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED
No. 33 the Round Table series.
No. 36 of the Round Table series.
ON DIFFERENT SORTS OF FAME
No. 37 of the Round Table series.
No. 39 of the Round Table series.
No. 41 of the Round Table series.
No. 42 of the Round Table series, with occasional passages from No. 43, on Shakspeare’s female characters, the substance of which was published inCharacters of Shakespear’s Plays(Cymbeline,Othello, andWinter’s Tale).
This essay is composed of two papers by Hazlitt which appeared inThe Examineron August 21 and August 28, 1814.
‘Him I meanWho penned, to ridicule confiding faith,This sorry Legend.’
‘Him I meanWho penned, to ridicule confiding faith,This sorry Legend.’
‘Him I meanWho penned, to ridicule confiding faith,This sorry Legend.’
‘Him I mean
Who penned, to ridicule confiding faith,
This sorry Legend.’
FromThe Examiner, October 2, 1814.
This ‘character’ originally appeared inFree Thoughts on Public Affairs,etc.(1806). It must have been a favourite with the author, for he afterwards reprinted it inThe Eloquence of the British Senate,etc.(1807), inThe Round Table(1817), and inPolitical Essays(1819). It also appeared in the posthumousWinterslow(1839). See note on p. 383,ante.
ON RELIGIOUS HYPOCRISY
FromThe Examiner, October 9, 1814, ‘Common-places,’ No. 1.
Reprinted with some omissions from a letter which appeared inThe Morning Chroniclefor October 28, 1813, entitled ‘Baron Grimm and the Edinburgh Reviewers.’
‘All fame is foreign, but of true desert;Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart.’Pope’sEssay on Man,IV.254.
‘All fame is foreign, but of true desert;Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart.’Pope’sEssay on Man,IV.254.
‘All fame is foreign, but of true desert;Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart.’
‘All fame is foreign, but of true desert;
Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart.’
Pope’sEssay on Man,IV.254.
Pope’sEssay on Man,IV.254.