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Title: An index to the collected works of William Hazlitt

Author: William Hazlitt

Editor: Arnold Glover

A. R. Waller

Release date: November 26, 2023 [eBook #72232]

Language: English

Original publication: London: J. M. Dent & Co

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INDEX TO HAZLITT’S
COLLECTED WORKS
All Rights Reserved

AN INDEX TO THE COLLECTED WORKS OF
WILLIAM HAZLITT

EDITED BY A. R. WALLER
AND ARNOLD GLOVER
1906
LONDON: J. M. DENT & CO.
29 AND 30 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
TO THE MEMORY OF
A. G.
E. H. G.
A. R. W.
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PREFACE

It was originally intended to add an index at the end of volume xii. of our edition, but so many of Hazlitt’s previously unidentified writings were discovered during the progress of the work, that it was found to be impossible to make volumes xi. and xii. any thicker. A brief index of the titles of Hazlitt’s various essays and papers closed, therefore, volume xii., and the publication of a separate index was designed.

The scope of this index was agreed upon between Arnold Glover and myself; the slips were made under my direction, and it was my intention to have checked them myself. Upon the death of Arnold Glover, however, I had to undertake other work left uncompleted by him, and the labour of checking each entry in the proofs with the twelve volumes indexed has been accomplished by Mrs Arnold Glover.

The book is now published, through the collaboration of Mrs Arnold Glover, Messrs J. M. Dent & Co. and myself, at a price considerably below cost, in order to place it within reach of all lovers of Hazlitt; and in memory of one who spared no pains in his self-chosen task of making the writings of Hazlitt better known, viiione who added so considerably to the known bulk of those writings.

Recognition of the value of his labour has, since his death, been ungrudgingly given him. It remains to be added that he himself would have regarded that labour as incomplete until he had passed the last proof-sheet of this index.

A. R. Waller.

Cambridge, 1st September 1906.

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NOTE

The index is practically confined to the names of persons and things. The names of imaginary persons, characters in novels, plays, etc., are indexed under the first word of the name by which they are usually designated, e.g. Tony Lumpkin, Don Quixote, Dr Faustus. The names of real persons are indexed in the ordinary way. In the very heavy list of Quotations the method adopted has followed so far as seemed possible that in use in the Index to Quotations in Notes and Queries. The list of quotations has been very considerably lightened by leaving out almost all phrases from Shakespeare and Milton: to have added these would have made the list of quotations almost double its present length, so often did Hazlitt quote from these two. Hazlitt’s spelling has been followed where deemed characteristic.

It has been discovered that a short essay has, by mistake, been printed twice in the text (vol. vii. p. 360, and vol. xi. p. 433). Owners of the edition will, perhaps, be so good as to note this fact in their copies.

It is the intention of the surviving editor to keep the notes and index up to date, in case a second impression should be required. He will be obliged if readers will send him any suggestions they may wish to make.

ADDENDA

ADDENDA TO QUOTATIONS

About one-third of the above are additional occurrences of quotations already indexed.

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I.

J.

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TURNBULL AND SPEARS
PRINTERS
EDINBURGH

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
  1. Silently corrected obvious typographical errors and variations in spelling.
  2. Retained archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed.