WINTERSLOW
ESSAYS AND CHARACTERS
WRITTEN THERE
BY
WILLIAM HAZLITT
LONDON
GRANT RICHARDS
48 LEICESTER SQUARE
1902
The World’s Classics
XXV
THE WORKS OF
WILLIAM HAZLITT—III
WINTERSLOW
ESSAYS AND CHARACTERS
WRITTEN THERE
These Essays were first published collectively in the year 1839. In ‘The World’s Classics’ they were first published in 1902.
Edinburgh: Printed by T. and A. Constable
The World’s Classics
I.
JANE EYRE. By Charlotte Brontë. [Second Impression.
II.
THE ESSAYS OF ELIA. By Charles Lamb. [Second Impression.
III.
THE POEMS OF ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON, 1830-1858. [Second Impression.
IV.
THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. By Oliver Goldsmith.
V.
TABLE-TALK: Essays on Men and Manners. By William Hazlitt. [Second Impression.
VI.
ESSAYS. By Ralph Waldo Emerson. [Second Impression.
VII.
THE POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN KEATS. [Second Impression.
VIII.
OLIVER TWIST. By Charles Dickens.
IX.
THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS. By Thomas Ingoldsby. [Second Impression.
X.
WUTHERING HEIGHTS. By Emily Brontë.
XI.
ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES. By Charles Darwin. [Second Impression.
XII.
THE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS. By John Bunyan.
XIII.
ENGLISH SONGS AND BALLADS. Selected by T. W. H. Crosland.
XIV.
SHIRLEY. By Charlotte Brontë.
XV.
SKETCHES AND ESSAYS. By William Hazlitt.
XVI.
THE POEMS OF ROBERT HERRICK.
XVII.
ROBINSON CRUSOE. By Daniel Defoe.
XVIII.
HOMER’S ILIAD. Translated by Alexander Pope.
XIX.
SARTOR RESARTUS. By Thomas Carlyle.
XX.
GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. By Jonathan Swift.
XXI.
TALES OF MYSTERY AND IMAGINATION. By Edgar Allan Poe.
XXII.
NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE. By Gilbert White.
XXIII.
CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM EATER. By T. De Quincey.
XXIV.
BACON’S ESSAYS.
XXV.
WINTERSLOW. By William Hazlitt.
XXVI.
THE SCARLET LETTER. By Nathaniel Hawthorne.
XXVII.
LAYS OF ANCIENT ROME. By Lord Macaulay.
XXVIII.
HENRY ESMOND. By W. M. Thackeray.
XXIX.
IVANHOE. By Sir Walter Scott.
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