Table-Talk: Essays on Men and Manners

According to Wikipedia: "William Hazlitt (10 April 1778 - 18 September 1830) was an English writer remembered for his humanistic essays and literary criticism. Hazlitt was a prominent English literary critic, grammarian and philosopher. He is considered one of the greatest critics and essayists in English,[1][2] placed in the same company as Samuel Johnson and George Orwell,[3][4] but his work is currently little-read."