Romantic prose of the early nineteenth century

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William Hazlitt: On familiar style. On living to one#x19;s-self. On reading old books. On the pleasure of hating. On the feeling of immortality in youth. On the fear of death #x13; Charles Lamb: Witches, and other night-fears. Blakesmoor in H

shire. Christ#x19;s Hospital five and thirty years ago. The South Sea house. Old china. Mrs. Battle#x19;s opinions on whist. A dissertation upon roast pig. Dream-children: a reverie #x13; Thomas De Quincey: Selections from Confessions of an English opium-eater. From The pleasures of opium. From The pains of opium. Levana and our ladies of sorrow #x13; William Cobbett: From Rural rides. From Advice to young men and (incidentally) to young women #x13; Leigh Hunt: Cruelty to children. The old gentleman. Colour. A cat by the fire. My books #x13; Walter Savage Landor: Imaginary conversations: Henry VIII, and Anne Boleyn. The Lady Lisle and Elizabeth Gaunt. The Empress Catharine and Princess Dashkof. The Maid of Orleans and Agnes Sorel. Admiral Blake and Humphrey Blake. Metellus and Marius #x13; Sydney Smith: A little moral advice, A fragment on the cultivation and improvement of the animal spirits. Noodle#x19;s oration. Proceedings of The Society for the Suppression of Vice #x13; Robert Southey: Derwentwater. Memoir of The cats of Greta Hall. The manufacturing system. Siege of Zaragoza (1808) #x13; Thomas Paine: From The rights of man #x13; William Godwin: From Political justice #x13; Mary Wollstonecraft: A vindication of the rights of women, Chapter IX: Of the pernicious effects which arise from the unnatural distinctions established in society