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Table talk; or, Original essays on men and manners

Print Book, English, 1824
H. Colburn, London, 1824
English essays
2 volumes 22 cm
5629102
v. 1. On the pleasure of painting; The same subject continued; On the past and future; On genius and common sense; The same subject continued; Character of Cobbett; On people with one idea; On the ignorance of the learned; The Indian jugglers; On living to one's-self; On thought and action; On will-making; On certain inconsistencies in Sir Joshua Reynolds's discourses; The same subject continued; On paradox and common-place; On vulgarity and affectation
v. 2. On a landscape of Nicholas Poussin; On Milton's sonnets; On going a journey; On coffee-house politicians; On the aristocracy of letters; On criticism; On great and little things; On familiar style; On effeminacy of character; Why distant objects please; On corporate bodies; Whether actors ought to sit in the boxes; On the disadvantages of intellectual superiority; On patronage and puffing; On the knowledge of character; On the picturesque and ideal; On the fear of death