THE

PLAIN SPEAKER:

72054

OPINIONS

ON

BOOKS, MEN, AND THINGS.

By

um Hazlitt

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

HENRY COLBURN, NEW BURLINGTON-STREET.

1826.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY THOMAS DAVISON, WHITEFRIARS.

CONTENTS

OF

THE SECOND VOLUME.

Page

Essay I.--On the Qualifications necessary to Success in

Essay VIII-On a Portrait of an English Lady, by

Essay XI.-Madame Pasta and Mademoiselle Mars.

309

Essay XII.-Sir Walter Scott, Racine, and Shakespear 335

Essay XIII.-On Depth and Superficiality

361

Essay XIV.-On Respectable People

397

Essay XV.-On Jealousy and Spleen of Party

409

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