CONTENTS[1]

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On Abstract Ideas 1
   
FRAGMENTS OF LECTURES ON PHILOSOPHY (1812)
On the Writings of Hobbes 25
On Liberty and Necessity 48
On Locke’s Essay on the Human Understanding 74
On Tooke’s ‘Diversions of Purley’ 119
On Self-Love 132
   
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE MORNING CHRONICLE
*Madame de Staël’s Account of German Philosophy and Literature 162
*The Same Subject continued 167
*The Same Subject continued 172
*The Same Subject continued (On Abstraction) 180
*Fine Arts. British Institution 187
*The Stage 191
*Fine Arts (The Louvre) 195
   
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE CHAMPION
*Wilson’s Landscapes at the British Institution 198
*On Gainsborough’s Pictures 202
*Mr. Kemble’s Penruddock 205
*Introduction to an Account of Sir Joshua Reynolds’s Discourses 208
*On Genius and Originality 210
*On the Imitation of Nature 216
*On the Ideal 223
*L. Buonaparte’s Charlemagne: ou l’Église Délivrée 230
*The Same Subject continued 234
*L. Buonaparte’s Collection of Pictures 237
*British Institution 242
*The Same Subject continued 246
*The Same Subject continued 248
*On Mr. Wilkie’s Pictures 249
   
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE EXAMINER
*On Rochefoucault’s Maxims 253
On the Predominant Principles and Excitements of the Human Mind[2] 258
The Love of Power or Action as Main a Principle in the Human Mind as Sensibility to Pleasure or Pain[2] 263
Essay on Manners[3] 269
*Kean’s Bajazet, and ‘The Country Girl’ 274
*Doctrine of Philosophical Necessity 277
*Parallel Passages in various Poets 282
*Mr. Locke a great Plagiarist 284
[The Same Subject continued] 578
*Shakespear’s Female Characters 290
*Miss O’Neill’s Widow Cheerly 297
*Penelope and The Dansomanie. 299
*Oroonoko 301
*The Pannel and The Ravens 303
*John Gilpin 305
*Don Giovanni and Kean’s Eustace de St. Pierre 307
*Character of the Country People 309
*Mr. Macready’s Macbeth 315
*Guy Faux 317
*The Same Subject continued 323
*The Same Subject concluded 328
Character of Mr. Canning 334
*The Dandy School 343
*Actors and the Public 348
*French Plays 352
*French Plays (continued) 356
*The Theatres and Passion-Week 358
*Charles Kean 362
*Some of the Old Actors 366
*The Company at the Opera 369
*The Beggar’s Opera 373
*The Taming of the Shrew and L’Avare 377
*Mrs. Siddons 381
*The Three Quarters, etc. 384
*Mr. Kean 389
   
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE TIMES
*Munden’s Sir Peter Teazle 392
*Young’s Hamlet 394
*Dowton in The Hypocrite 395
*Miss Brunton’s Rosalind 396
*Maywood’s Zanga 397
*Kean’s Richard III. 399
*The Wonder 401
*Venice Preserved 402
*She Stoops to Conquer 403
*Kean’s Macbeth 404
*Kean’s Othello 405
*Kean and Miss O’Neill 407
*The Honey Moon 409
*Mr. Kean 410
*King John 410
   
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE YELLOW DWARF
*The Press—Coleridge, Southey, Wordsworth, and Bentham 411
*Mr. Coleridge’s Lectures 416
*Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage 420
The Opera 426
   
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE EDINBURGH (NEW SCOTS) MAGAZINE
*On the Question whether Pope was a Poet 430
*On Respectable People 433
On Fashion 437
On Nicknames 442
Thoughts on Taste 450
The Same Subject continued 454
The Same Subject continued[4] 459
   
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE LONDON MAGAZINE
*On the Present State of Parliamentary Eloquence 464
*Haydon’s ‘Christ’s Agony in the Garden’ 481
*Pope, Lord Byron, and Mr. Bowles 486
On Consistency of Opinion 508
On the Spirit of Partisanship 521
*‘The Pirate’ 531
*‘Peveril of the Peak’ 537
   
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE LITERARY EXAMINER
Common Places 540
Notes 563
   
ESSAYS NOT CERTAINLY HAZLITT’S, AND FRAGMENTS
Character of Mr. Wordsworth’s New Poem The Excursion 572
The Duke D’Enghien 577
Coleridge’s ‘Christabel’ 580
Sketches of the History of the Good Old Times 582
Historical Illustrations of Shakespeare 601
Mr. Crabbe 603

FACSIMILE (REDUCED) OF HAZLITT’s HANDWRITING, FROM A MS. IN THE POSSESSION OF MR. W. C. HAZLITT.