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Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners

William Hazlitt

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 358 pages

Table Talk is a collection of familiar essays by William Hazlitt on art, literature, society and human character. The opening essay reflects on the quiet pleasure of painting, while the volume ranges widely with wit and personal observation. It is worth listening to for its lively, thoughtful prose and insights into men and manners.

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Opening of the book

TABLE-TALK
ESSAYS ON MEN AND MANNERS
By William Hazlitt
VOLUME I
ESSAY I. ON THE PLEASURE OF PAINTING
'There is a pleasure in painting which none but painters
know.' In writing, you have to contend with the world; in

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Contents

  1. TABLE-TALK ESSAYS ON MEN AND MANNERS
  2. VOLUME I
  3. VOLUME II

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