PRICE ONE SHILLING AND SIXPENCE.

HAZLITT'S

PLAIN SPEAKER.

ESSAYS ON

THE PROSE STYLE OF POETS.

DREAMS.

THE CONVERSATION OF AUTHORS.
REASON AND IMAGINATION.

APPLICATION TO STUDY.

LONDONERS AND COUNTRY PEOPLE.

THE SPIRIT OF OBLIGATIONS.

THE OLD AGE OF ARTISTS.

ENVY

SITTING FOR ONE'S PICTURE.

IS GENIUS CONSCIOUS OF ITS POWERS?

EDITED BY

WILLIAM CAREW HAZLITT.

LONDON:

BELL & DALDY, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN.

1870.

Published by Arrangement with the Proprietors, Messrs. Moxon & Co.

LONDON: BELL & DALDY.

THE PLAIN SPEAKER.

THE

PLAIN SPEAKER:

OPINIONS

ON

BOOKS, MEN, AND THINGS.

BY

WILLIAM HAZLITT,

Author of " Table Talk;" Lectures "On the Comic Writers;" "On the
English Poets;" "Characters of Shakespear's Plays ;”
"On Elizabethan Literature," &c. &c.