Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

- William Hazlitt

A portrait of HM The Queen on the cover of Australian Women’s Weekly titled, ‘New Portrait for the Grenadier Guards’. 23rd May 1956.

Herman Melville on Napoleon’s love for Ossian

Context: Ossian is the narrator and purported author of a cycle of epic poems published by the Scottish poet James Macpherson, originally as Fingal (1761) and Temora (1763), and later combined under the title The Poems of Ossian.

“I am rejoiced to see Hazlitt speak for Ossian. There is nothing more contemptable in that contemptable man (tho' good poet, in his department) Wordsworth, than his contempt for Ossian. And nothing that more raises my idea of Napoleon than his great admiration for him.—The loneliness of the spirit of Ossian harmonized with the loneliness of the greatness of Napoleon.”

Melville wrote this around 1862 in the margins of his copy of Hazlitt’s Lectures on the English Comic Writers and Lectures on the English Poets

Source: Hershel Parker, Herman Melville: A Biography - Volume 2, p. 436

​Among the many things that start to fray when you live with unexplained chronic illness (autonomy, nerves, confidence) is the value you once placed on your own knowledge: on your ability to gather information and implement it in ways that are meaningful. What was my knowledge, after all? An English literature honours degree with a focus on psychoanalysis as a way to read texts. An activist’s understanding of how education cuts were privatizing the UK’s university system. A party girl’s know-how of the best way to get through a packed dance floor to the DJ booth. The things that I knew now seemed utterly useless. It was into this space of uselessness, of helplessness, that medical professionals brought their insight. Oh, how much they knew! Patronizing, caring, well-intentioned, indifferent, insightful, dismissive, they knew and knew and knew.

—Richa Kaul Padte, from "The Favourite Patient," in Hazlitt

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I had a dream that my husband had a secret stash of auction finds, where he had some Napoleonic urns. I told him the dream and he said, "Well now I have to know." And looked at the auctions after we had already discussed that we need to stop 😅😅 No urns, but there were these...

Finger Lakes vacation- July, 2023 This was the one absolute MUST. My all-time favorite wine is Hazlitt’s Bramble Berry. We figured we should go see what all our money has built over the years. lol

POV you are a first gen Romantic weighing your options for your future political opinions

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“The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.”

— William Hazlitt

Some J.B. Fletcher & Dr. Seth Hazlitt sketches for my fellow Murder She Wrote girlies out there. ✌️

Angela has so many fun reactions & expressions throughout the run of the show—I had to try my hand at drawing some!

When I am in the country, I wish to vegetate like the country... I go out of town in order to forget the town and all that is in it. There are those who for this purpose go to watering-places, and carry the metropolis with them. I like more elbow-room, and fewer incumbrances.

- William Hazlitt, On Going a Journey

The concept of ‘legitimacy’ as a matter of sovereignty first enters English discourse as a response to Napoleon

Excerpt from British Radicals and 'Legitimacy': Napoleon in the Mirror of History by Stuart Semmel

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The introduction of ‘legitimacy’ into British political discourse seems to have been directly connected to the peculiar case of Napoleon. His superficial similarity to a king, in the wake of France’s republican experiment, made it necessary to distinguish him from other monarchs by dwelling on the quality he lacked, that of hereditary descent from a line of kings. Perhaps the earliest appearance of the new usage came in 1801, when the True Briton newspaper contrasted the ‘obtrusive upstart’ Napoleon with France’s ‘legitimate Monarchs’. The adjective occurred frequently in discussions of Napoleon (an 1803 broad-side, for example, called on the French to remove Bonaparte from ‘his usurped station . . . and hail the return of their legitimate prince’). The ultra-loyalist journalist Lewis Goldsmith employed the word frequently — as when he bemoaned Napoleon’s placing members of his own ‘bastard family on the thrones of ancient legitimate monarchs’. Goldsmith, in accusing the entire Bonaparte clan of bastardy, was not claiming that every member had been born out of wedlock. The new meaning rather accused Napoleon and his siblings of having been born outside of dynasty. Even as we chart the emergence of the new usage, however, Goldsmith’s language should remind us that the older meaning lurked underneath the surface (as it perhaps still lurks). The double meaning was present in contemporaries’ minds, as occasional wordplay suggested — not least because it was a common loyalist tactic to question the purity of Napoleon’s mother, and thus Napoleon's paternity. . .

As far as its critics were concerned, the virtue now trumpeted by continental dynasts amounted to nothing less than the ‘old doctrine of Divine Right, new-vamped up’, as the radical journalist William Hazlitt put it. ‘Legitimacy’ seemed an anachronism to Hazlitt, a ‘mock-doctrine’ dug up by ‘resurrection-men’. Thomas Babington Macaulay, in a similar spirit, would write in 1825 of ‘the doctrine of Divine Right’ having ‘come back to us, like a thief from transportation, under the alias of Legitimacy’. To those who worried about the strength of the executive, the new term ‘legitimacy’ seemed a bare-faced admission of a plot, on the Stuart model, against British liberties. Necessity had often been invoked, during the French wars, to justify infringements on traditional freedoms. Many now shared Hazlitt’s foreboding, expressed as news of Napoleon’s 1814 fall reached Britain, that ‘The restoration of the Bourbons in France will be the re-establishment of the principles of the Stuarts in this country’.

I was stunned by how expansive it all felt—unfurling, undulating, on and on, just as I had imagined it in my mind. The mountain ranges were bathed in a salmon-coloured light, and Lake Mead glowed a cerulean blue. Patches of scrub made the surrounding playa look like it had been sprinkled with poppy seeds.

—Matthew Braga, from "The Voice of the Desert," in Hazlitt

I think myself into love, And I dream myself out of it.

William Hazlitt, "On Dreaming" from The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things

Finger Lakes vacation- July, 2023 This was the one absolute MUST. My all-time favorite wine is Hazlitt’s Bramble Berry. We figured we should go see what all our money has built over the years. lol

Sometimes I read something by William Hazlitt and I'm like oh no wonder nobody liked you