Nothing New

Classic writing, modern delivery

William Hazlitt

Table Talk · 33 essays · ~3 months at one per day

Book I

1.On the Pleasure of Painting 3 parts
2.The Same Subject Continued 2 parts
3.On the Past and Future 2 parts
4.On Genius and Common Sense 3 parts
5.The Same Subject Continued 2 parts
6.Character of Cobbett 3 parts
7.On People With One Idea 3 parts
8.On the Ignorance of the Learned 2 parts
9.The Indian Jugglers 3 parts
10.On Living to One's-self 3 parts
11.On Thought and Action 4 parts
12.On Will-making 2 parts
13.On Certain Inconsistencies in Sir Joshua Reynolds's Discourses 2 parts
14.The Same Subject Continued 4 parts
15.On Paradox and Common-place 3 parts
16.On Vulgarity and Affectation 3 parts
17.On a Landscape of Nicolas Poussin 2 parts
18.On Milton's Sonnets 2 parts
19.On Going a Journey 3 parts
20.On Coffee-house Politicians 4 parts
21.On the Aristocracy of Letters 2 parts
22.On Criticism 3 parts
23.On Great and Little Things 4 parts
24.On Familiar Style 2 parts
25.On Effeminacy of Character 2 parts
26.Why Distant Objects Please 2 parts
27.On Corporate Bodies 2 parts
28.Whether Actors Ought to Sit in the Boxes? 2 parts
29.On the Disadvantages of Intellectual Superiority 3 parts
30.On Patronage and Puffing 3 parts
31.On the Knowledge of Character 4 parts
32.On the Picturesque and Ideal
33.On the Fear of Death 2 parts