Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

William Hazlitt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1440069204 ISBN 13: 9781440069208

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

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 yourself into the hands of a greater power, that of Nature, with the simplicity of a child, and the devotion of an enthusiast study with joy her manner, and with rapture taste her style. The mind is calm, and full at the same time. The hand and eye are equally employed In tracing the commonest object, a plant or the stump of a tree, you learn something every moment. You perceive unexpected differences, and discover likenesses where you looked for no such thing. You try to set down what you see find out your error, and correct it.
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About the Author:

William Hazlitt (10 April 1778 – 18 September 1830) was an English writer, remembered for his humanistic essays and literary criticism, and as an art critic, drama critic, social commentator, and philosopher. He was also a painter. He is now considered one of the great critics and essayists of the English language, placed in the company of Samuel Johnson and George Orwell. Yet his work is currently little read and mostly out of print. During his lifetime he befriended many people who are now part of the 19th-century literary canon, including Charles and Mary Lamb, Stendhal, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and William Wordsworth.

About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1440069204
• ISBN 13: 9781440069208
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 498