: The collected works of William Hazlitt Vol. 12 (of 12) by Hazlitt William Glover Arnold Editor Waller A R Alfred Rayney Editor - English essays 19th century

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FUGITIVE WRITINGS

THE FIGHT

P.S. Toms called upon me the next day, to ask me if I did not think the fight was a complete thing? I said I thought it was. I hope he will relish my account of it.

MERRY ENGLAND

but he only unbends and waxes mellow by degrees, and sits soaking till he can neither sit, stand, nor go: it is his vice, and a beastly one it is, but not a proof of any inherent distaste to mirth or good-fellowship. Neither can foreigners throw the carnival in our teeth with any effect: those who have seen it , will say that it is duller than any thing in England. Our Bartholomew-Fair is Queen Mab herself to it! What can be duller than a parcel of masks moving about the streets and looking as grave and monotonous as possible from day to day, and with the same lifeless formality in their limbs and gestures as in their features? One might as well expect variety and spirit in a procession of wax-work. We must be hard run indeed, when we have recourse to a pasteboard proxy to set off our mirth: a mask may be a very good cover for licentiousness , but it is a very bad exponent of wit and humour. I should suppose there is more drollery and unction in the caricatures in Gilray's shop-window, than in all the masks in Italy, without exception.

'That under Heaven is blown.'

'Throwing a gaudy shadow upon life,'--

'And gaudy butterflies flutter around.'

OF PERSONS ONE WOULD WISH TO HAVE SEEN

'Whose names on earth In Fame's eternal records live for aye!'

'There is one person,' said a shrill, querulous voice, 'I would rather see than all these--Don Quixote!'

'Oh! ever right, Menenius,--ever right!'

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