William Hazlitt Principal Works - Essay - eNotes.com.
The same notion is expressed differently by William Hazlitt in his essay “On Wit and Humour’’ in English Comic Writers (1819). He says, “Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be” (1).
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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.
After 1812 he wrote profusely for various periodicals including Edinburgh Review. His writings turned from political journalism to literary criticism and essay. Essays of William Hazlitt. On Prejudice.
This essay is apparently part of a larger work which Hazlitt brought out relatively early in his career, Reply to Malthus published by Longman in 1807. A number of years later he got back to writing about Malthus when he brought out his Political Essays published by William Hone in 1819 with a second edition in 1822 (Simkin and Marshall).
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William Hazlitt has a sharp, idiomatic, familiar style. His is the pure diction and aphorism. Consciousness and propriety of words and phrases is a great characteristic of him. Its true’s to say in the least possible space. There is always in the style of Hazlitt a certain amount of refine taste which becomes his most marked characteristic.