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TABLE-TALK ESSAYS ON MEN AND MANNERS
by WILLIAM HAZLITT

CONTENTS
VOLUME I
1. On the Pleasure of Painting 2. The Same Subject Continued 3. On
the Past and Future 4. On Genius and Common Sense 5. The Same
Subject Continued 6. Character of Cobbett 7. On People With One Idea
8. On the Ignorance of the Learned 9. The Indian Jugglers 10. On
Living To One's-Self 11. On Thought and Action 12. On Will-Making
13. On Certain Inconsistencies In Sir Joshua Reynolds's Discourses 14.
The Same Subject Continued 15. On Paradox and Common-Place 16.
On Vulgarity and Affectation
VOLUME II
1. On a Landscape of Nicholas Poussin 2. On Milton's Sonnets 3. On
Going a Journey 4. On Coffee-House Politicians 5. On the Aristocracy
of Letters 6. On Criticism 7. On Great and Little Things 8. On Familiar
Style 9. On Effeminacy of Character 10. Why Distant Objects Please
11. On Corporate Bodies 12. Whether Actors Ought To Sit in the
Boxes 13. On the Disadvantages of Intellectual Superiority 14. On
Patronage and Puffing 15. On the Knowledge of Character 16. On the
Picturesque and Ideal 17. On the Fear of Death

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 painting, you have only
to carry on a friendly strife with Nature. You sit down to your task, and
are happy. From the moment that you take up the pencil, and look
Nature in the face, you are at peace with your own heart. No angry
passions rise to disturb the silent progress of the work, to shake the
hand, or dim the brow: no irritable humours are set afloat: you have no
absurd opinions to combat, no point to strain, no adversary to crush, no
fool to annoy--you are actuated by fear or favour to no man. There is
'no juggling here,' no sophistry, no intrigue, no tampering with the
evidence, no attempt to make black white, or white black: but you
resign