WILEY AND PUTNAM'S

LIBRARY OF

CHOICE READING.

LECTURES

ON THE

ENGLISH COMIC WRITERS.

ON THE

ENGLISH COMIC WRITERS.

BY WILLIAM HAZLITT.

FROM THE THIRD LONDON EDITION,
EDITED BY HIS SON.

"It is a very good office one man does another, when he tells him the manner of his
being pleased."-STEELE.

NEW-YORK:

WILEY AND PUTNAM, 161 BROADWAY.

1845.

THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED

TO ONE OF

THE BEST ENGLISH COMIC WRITERS OF HIS TIME,

LAMAN BLANCHARD,

AS A TOKEN OF

THE EDITOR'S SINCERE ATTACHMENT AND RESPECT.