Selected Essays, 1778-1830 by William Hazlitt.
William Hazlitt was born on April 10, 1778, and died a hundred years ago on September 18, 1830. His father, the Rev. William Hazlitt, was a Unitarian minister, who in 1778 had been preaching for eight years at the Chapel in Maidstone. He was the son of a poor Irish farmer, and after preparing for the ministry at Glasgow University had married in 1766 the daughter of an iron- monger at Wisbeach.
The Hazlitt Society; The Hazlitt Society. William Hazlitt was born in Maidstone in 1778. His mother, Grace Loftus, was from a Dissenting family in Cambridgeshire, and his father, the Reverend William Hazlitt, was an Irish Unitarian minister from Co. Tipperary. Hazlitt was educated at the Unitarian New College in Hackney, then studied art and tried to earn a living as a portrait painter. He was.
The greatest art critic of his age, William Hazlitt is celebrated for his humanistic essays and literary criticism. Hazlitt was an influential drama critic, social commentator and philosopher, now widely considered one of the great critics and essayists of the English language. This comprehensive eBook presents Hazlitt’s collected works, with numerous illustrations, many rare texts appearing.
A shot from my father’s gun killed our neighbor and traced a trajectory through decades of guilt, shame, fear and anger. Unraveling the moment my family calls “the accident.”.
William Hazlitt, the son of an Irish Unitarian clergyman, was born in Maidstone, Kent, in 1778. As a result of supporting the American Revolution, the Rev. Hazlitt and his family were forced to leave Kent and live in Ireland. The family returned to England in 1787 and settled at Wem in Shropshire. At the age of fifteen William was sent to be trained for the ministry at New Unitarian College at.
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Of Persons One Would Wish to Have Seen. William Hazlitt. 1909-14. English Essays: Sidney to Macaulay. The Harvard Classics. Of Persons One Would Wish to Have Seen William Hazlitt “Come like shadows—so depart.” LAMB 1 it was, I think, who suggested this subject, as well as the defence of Guy Fawkes, which I urged him to execute. As, however, he would undertake neither, I suppose I must.