<![CDATA[The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things by William Hazlitt]]> http://www.loyalbooks.com/book/Plain-Speaker-Opinions-On-Books-Men-and-Things en-us © 2026 LoyalBooks.com Loyal Books clean Loyal Books feeds@loyalbooks.com http://www.loyalbooks.com/image/ui/default-feed.jpg <![CDATA[The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things by William Hazlitt]]> http://www.loyalbooks.com/book/Plain-Speaker-Opinions-On-Books-Men-and-Things 43,200 <![CDATA[01 - On the Prose Style of Poets, part 1]]> More great books at LoyalBooks.com More great books at LoyalBooks.com http://www.loyalbooks.com/book/Plain-Speaker-Opinions-On-Books-Men-and-Things http://www.archive.org/download/plain_speaker_1201_librivox/plainspeaker_01_hazlitt_64kb.mp3 Fri, 02 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 20:07 <![CDATA[02 - On the Prose Style of Poets, part 2]]> More great books at LoyalBooks.com More great books at LoyalBooks.com http://www.loyalbooks.com/book/Plain-Speaker-Opinions-On-Books-Men-and-Things http://www.archive.org/download/plain_speaker_1201_librivox/plainspeaker_02_hazlitt_64kb.mp3 Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 19:43 <![CDATA[03 - On Dreams]]> More great books at LoyalBooks.com More great books at LoyalBooks.com http://www.loyalbooks.com/book/Plain-Speaker-Opinions-On-Books-Men-and-Things http://www.archive.org/download/plain_speaker_1201_librivox/plainspeaker_03_hazlitt_64kb.mp3 Wed, 31 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 30:21 <![CDATA[04 - On the Conversation of Authors]]> More great books at LoyalBooks.com More great books at LoyalBooks.com http://www.loyalbooks.com/book/Plain-Speaker-Opinions-On-Books-Men-and-Things http://www.archive.org/download/plain_speaker_1201_librivox/plainspeaker_04_hazlitt_64kb.mp3 Tue, 30 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 38:52 <![CDATA[05 - On the Same Subject Continued]]> More great books at LoyalBooks.com More great books at LoyalBooks.com http://www.loyalbooks.com/book/Plain-Speaker-Opinions-On-Books-Men-and-Things http://www.archive.org/download/plain_speaker_1201_librivox/plainspeaker_05_hazlitt_64kb.mp3 Mon, 29 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 30:56 <![CDATA[06 - On Reason and Imagination]]> More great books at LoyalBooks.com More great books at LoyalBooks.com http://www.loyalbooks.com/book/Plain-Speaker-Opinions-On-Books-Men-and-Things http://www.archive.org/download/plain_speaker_1201_librivox/plainspeaker_06_hazlitt_64kb.mp3 Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 32:42 <![CDATA[07 - On Application to Study]]> More great books at LoyalBooks.com More great books at LoyalBooks.com http://www.loyalbooks.com/book/Plain-Speaker-Opinions-On-Books-Men-and-Things http://www.archive.org/download/plain_speaker_1201_librivox/plainspeaker_07_hazlitt_64kb.mp3 Sat, 27 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 32:59 <![CDATA[08 - On Londoners and Country People, part 1]]> More great books at LoyalBooks.com More great books at LoyalBooks.com http://www.loyalbooks.com/book/Plain-Speaker-Opinions-On-Books-Men-and-Things http://www.archive.org/download/plain_speaker_1201_librivox/plainspeaker_08_hazlitt_64kb.mp3 Fri, 26 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 20:11 <![CDATA[09 - On Londoners and Country People, part 2]]> More great books at LoyalBooks.com More great books at LoyalBooks.com http://www.loyalbooks.com/book/Plain-Speaker-Opinions-On-Books-Men-and-Things http://www.archive.org/download/plain_speaker_1201_librivox/plainspeaker_09_hazlitt_64kb.mp3 Thu, 25 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 16:20 <![CDATA[10 - On the Spirit of Obligations]]> More great books at LoyalBooks.com More great books at LoyalBooks.com http://www.loyalbooks.com/book/Plain-Speaker-Opinions-On-Books-Men-and-Things http://www.archive.org/download/plain_speaker_1201_librivox/plainspeaker_10_hazlitt_64kb.mp3 Wed, 24 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 30:31 <![CDATA[11 - On the Old Age of Artists]]> More great books at LoyalBooks.com More great books at LoyalBooks.com http://www.loyalbooks.com/book/Plain-Speaker-Opinions-On-Books-Men-and-Things http://www.archive.org/download/plain_speaker_1201_librivox/plainspeaker_11_hazlitt_64kb.mp3 Tue, 23 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 33:45 <![CDATA[12 - On Envy (A Dialogue)]]> More great books at LoyalBooks.com More great books at LoyalBooks.com http://www.loyalbooks.com/book/Plain-Speaker-Opinions-On-Books-Men-and-Things http://www.archive.org/download/plain_speaker_1201_librivox/plainspeaker_12_hazlitt_64kb.mp3 Mon, 22 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 37:48 <![CDATA[13 - On Sitting for One's Picture]]> More great books at LoyalBooks.com More great books at LoyalBooks.com http://www.loyalbooks.com/book/Plain-Speaker-Opinions-On-Books-Men-and-Things http://www.archive.org/download/plain_speaker_1201_librivox/plainspeaker_13_hazlitt_64kb.mp3 Sun, 21 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 27:58 <![CDATA[14 - Whether Genius is Conscious of its Powers]]> More great books at LoyalBooks.com More great books at LoyalBooks.com http://www.loyalbooks.com/book/Plain-Speaker-Opinions-On-Books-Men-and-Things http://www.archive.org/download/plain_speaker_1201_librivox/plainspeaker_14_hazlitt_64kb.mp3 Sat, 20 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 34:40 <![CDATA[15 - On the Pleasure of Hating]]> More great books at LoyalBooks.com More great books at LoyalBooks.com http://www.loyalbooks.com/book/Plain-Speaker-Opinions-On-Books-Men-and-Things http://www.archive.org/download/plain_speaker_1201_librivox/plainspeaker_15_hazlitt_64kb.mp3 Fri, 19 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 34:36 <![CDATA[16 - On Dr. Spurzheim's Theory, part 1]]> More great books at LoyalBooks.com More great books at LoyalBooks.com http://www.loyalbooks.com/book/Plain-Speaker-Opinions-On-Books-Men-and-Things http://www.archive.org/download/plain_speaker_1201_librivox/plainspeaker_16_hazlitt_64kb.mp3 Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 25:27 <![CDATA[17 - On Dr. Spurzheim's Theory, part 2]]> More great books at LoyalBooks.com More great books at LoyalBooks.com http://www.loyalbooks.com/book/Plain-Speaker-Opinions-On-Books-Men-and-Things http://www.archive.org/download/plain_speaker_1201_librivox/plainspeaker_17_hazlitt_64kb.mp3 Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 26:46 <![CDATA[18 - On Egotism, part 1]]> More great books at LoyalBooks.com More great books at LoyalBooks.com http://www.loyalbooks.com/book/Plain-Speaker-Opinions-On-Books-Men-and-Things http://www.archive.org/download/plain_speaker_1201_librivox/plainspeaker_18_hazlitt_64kb.mp3 Tue, 16 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 20:09 <![CDATA[19 - On Egotism, part 2]]> More great books at LoyalBooks.com More great books at LoyalBooks.com http://www.loyalbooks.com/book/Plain-Speaker-Opinions-On-Books-Men-and-Things http://www.archive.org/download/plain_speaker_1201_librivox/plainspeaker_19_hazlitt_64kb.mp3 Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 20:07 <![CDATA[20 - Hot and Cold]]> More great books at LoyalBooks.com More great books at LoyalBooks.com http://www.loyalbooks.com/book/Plain-Speaker-Opinions-On-Books-Men-and-Things http://www.archive.org/download/plain_speaker_1201_librivox/plainspeaker_20_hazlitt_64kb.mp3 Sun, 14 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 33:45 <![CDATA[21 - The New School of Reform: a Dialogue Between a Rationalist and a Sentimentalist, part 1]]> More great books at LoyalBooks.com More great books at LoyalBooks.com http://www.loyalbooks.com/book/Plain-Speaker-Opinions-On-Books-Men-and-Things http://www.archive.org/download/plain_speaker_1201_librivox/plainspeaker_21_hazlitt_64kb.mp3 Sat, 13 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 26:17 <![CDATA[22 - The New School of Reform: a Dialogue Between a Rationalist and a Sentimentalist, part 2]]> More great books at LoyalBooks.com More great books at LoyalBooks.com http://www.loyalbooks.com/book/Plain-Speaker-Opinions-On-Books-Men-and-Things http://www.archive.org/download/plain_speaker_1201_librivox/plainspeaker_22_hazlitt_64kb.mp3 Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 29:03 <![CDATA[23 - On the Qualifications Necessary to Success in Life, part 1]]> More great books at LoyalBooks.com More great books at LoyalBooks.com http://www.loyalbooks.com/book/Plain-Speaker-Opinions-On-Books-Men-and-Things http://www.archive.org/download/plain_speaker_1201_librivox/plainspeaker_23_hazlitt_64kb.mp3 Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 20:04 <![CDATA[24 - On the Qualifications Necessary to Success in Life, part 2]]> More great books at LoyalBooks.com More great books at LoyalBooks.com http://www.loyalbooks.com/book/Plain-Speaker-Opinions-On-Books-Men-and-Things http://www.archive.org/download/plain_speaker_1201_librivox/plainspeaker_24_hazlitt_64kb.mp3 Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 25:15 <![CDATA[25 - On the Look of a Gentleman]]> More great books at LoyalBooks.com More great books at LoyalBooks.com http://www.loyalbooks.com/book/Plain-Speaker-Opinions-On-Books-Men-and-Things http://www.archive.org/download/plain_speaker_1201_librivox/plainspeaker_25_hazlitt_64kb.mp3 Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 34:19 <![CDATA[26 - On Reading Old Books]]> More great books at LoyalBooks.com More great books at LoyalBooks.com http://www.loyalbooks.com/book/Plain-Speaker-Opinions-On-Books-Men-and-Things http://www.archive.org/download/plain_speaker_1201_librivox/plainspeaker_26_hazlitt_64kb.mp3 Mon, 08 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 31:12 <![CDATA[27 - On Personal Character, part 1]]> More great books at LoyalBooks.com More great books at LoyalBooks.com http://www.loyalbooks.com/book/Plain-Speaker-Opinions-On-Books-Men-and-Things http://www.archive.org/download/plain_speaker_1201_librivox/plainspeaker_27_hazlitt_64kb.mp3 Sun, 07 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 17:32 <![CDATA[28 - On Personal Character, part 2]]> More great books at LoyalBooks.com More great books at LoyalBooks.com http://www.loyalbooks.com/book/Plain-Speaker-Opinions-On-Books-Men-and-Things http://www.archive.org/download/plain_speaker_1201_librivox/plainspeaker_28_hazlitt_64kb.mp3 Sat, 06 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 17:41 <![CDATA[29 - On People of Sense]]> More great books at LoyalBooks.com More great books at LoyalBooks.com http://www.loyalbooks.com/book/Plain-Speaker-Opinions-On-Books-Men-and-Things http://www.archive.org/download/plain_speaker_1201_librivox/plainspeaker_29_hazlitt_64kb.mp3 Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 34:47 <![CDATA[30 - On Antiquity]]> More great books at LoyalBooks.com More great books at LoyalBooks.com http://www.loyalbooks.com/book/Plain-Speaker-Opinions-On-Books-Men-and-Things http://www.archive.org/download/plain_speaker_1201_librivox/plainspeaker_30_hazlitt_64kb.mp3 Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 32:23 <![CDATA[31 - On the Difference Between Writing and Speaking, part 1]]> More great books at LoyalBooks.com More great books at LoyalBooks.com http://www.loyalbooks.com/book/Plain-Speaker-Opinions-On-Books-Men-and-Things http://www.archive.org/download/plain_speaker_1201_librivox/plainspeaker_31_hazlitt_64kb.mp3 Wed, 03 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 22:00 <![CDATA[32 - On the Difference Between Writing and Speaking, part 2]]> More great books at LoyalBooks.com More great books at LoyalBooks.com http://www.loyalbooks.com/book/Plain-Speaker-Opinions-On-Books-Men-and-Things http://www.archive.org/download/plain_speaker_1201_librivox/plainspeaker_32_hazlitt_64kb.mp3 Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 27:54 <![CDATA[33 - On a Portrait of an English Lady by Vandyke, part 1]]> More great books at LoyalBooks.com More great books at LoyalBooks.com http://www.loyalbooks.com/book/Plain-Speaker-Opinions-On-Books-Men-and-Things http://www.archive.org/download/plain_speaker_1201_librivox/plainspeaker_33_hazlitt_64kb.mp3 Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 23:38 <![CDATA[34 - On a Portrait of an English Lady by Vandyke, part 2]]> More great books at LoyalBooks.com More great books at LoyalBooks.com http://www.loyalbooks.com/book/Plain-Speaker-Opinions-On-Books-Men-and-Things http://www.archive.org/download/plain_speaker_1201_librivox/plainspeaker_34_hazlitt_64kb.mp3 Sun, 30 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 35:27 <![CDATA[35 - On Novelty and Familiarity, part 1]]> More great books at LoyalBooks.com More great books at LoyalBooks.com http://www.loyalbooks.com/book/Plain-Speaker-Opinions-On-Books-Men-and-Things http://www.archive.org/download/plain_speaker_1201_librivox/plainspeaker_35_hazlitt_64kb.mp3 Sat, 29 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 24:32 <![CDATA[36 - On Novelty and Familiarity, part 2]]> More great books at LoyalBooks.com More great books at LoyalBooks.com http://www.loyalbooks.com/book/Plain-Speaker-Opinions-On-Books-Men-and-Things http://www.archive.org/download/plain_speaker_1201_librivox/plainspeaker_36_hazlitt_64kb.mp3 Fri, 28 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 25:48 <![CDATA[37 - On Old English Writers and Speakers, part 1]]> More great books at LoyalBooks.com More great books at LoyalBooks.com http://www.loyalbooks.com/book/Plain-Speaker-Opinions-On-Books-Men-and-Things http://www.archive.org/download/plain_speaker_1201_librivox/plainspeaker_37_hazlitt_64kb.mp3 Thu, 27 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 32:36 <![CDATA[38 - On Old English Writers and Speakers, part 2]]> More great books at LoyalBooks.com More great books at LoyalBooks.com http://www.loyalbooks.com/book/Plain-Speaker-Opinions-On-Books-Men-and-Things http://www.archive.org/download/plain_speaker_1201_librivox/plainspeaker_38_hazlitt_64kb.mp3 Wed, 26 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 14:52 <![CDATA[39 - Madame Pasta and Mademoiselle Mars]]> More great books at LoyalBooks.com More great books at LoyalBooks.com http://www.loyalbooks.com/book/Plain-Speaker-Opinions-On-Books-Men-and-Things http://www.archive.org/download/plain_speaker_1201_librivox/plainspeaker_39_hazlitt_64kb.mp3 Tue, 25 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 38:14 <![CDATA[40 - Sir Walter Scott, Racine and Shakespeare]]> More great books at LoyalBooks.com More great books at LoyalBooks.com http://www.loyalbooks.com/book/Plain-Speaker-Opinions-On-Books-Men-and-Things http://www.archive.org/download/plain_speaker_1201_librivox/plainspeaker_40_hazlitt_64kb.mp3 Mon, 24 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 33:58 <![CDATA[41 - On Depth and Superficiality, part 1]]> More great books at LoyalBooks.com More great books at LoyalBooks.com http://www.loyalbooks.com/book/Plain-Speaker-Opinions-On-Books-Men-and-Things http://www.archive.org/download/plain_speaker_1201_librivox/plainspeaker_41_hazlitt_64kb.mp3 Sun, 23 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 20:24 <![CDATA[42 - On Depth and Superficiality, part 2]]> More great books at LoyalBooks.com More great books at LoyalBooks.com http://www.loyalbooks.com/book/Plain-Speaker-Opinions-On-Books-Men-and-Things http://www.archive.org/download/plain_speaker_1201_librivox/plainspeaker_42_hazlitt_64kb.mp3 Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 30:54 <![CDATA[43 - On Respectable People]]> More great books at LoyalBooks.com More great books at LoyalBooks.com http://www.loyalbooks.com/book/Plain-Speaker-Opinions-On-Books-Men-and-Things http://www.archive.org/download/plain_speaker_1201_librivox/plainspeaker_43_hazlitt_64kb.mp3 Fri, 21 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 18:34 <![CDATA[44 - On the Jealousy and the Spleen of Party, part 1]]> More great books at LoyalBooks.com More great books at LoyalBooks.com http://www.loyalbooks.com/book/Plain-Speaker-Opinions-On-Books-Men-and-Things http://www.archive.org/download/plain_speaker_1201_librivox/plainspeaker_44_hazlitt_64kb.mp3 Thu, 20 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 18:35 <![CDATA[45 - On the Jealousy and the Spleen of Party, part 2]]> More great books at LoyalBooks.com More great books at LoyalBooks.com http://www.loyalbooks.com/book/Plain-Speaker-Opinions-On-Books-Men-and-Things http://www.archive.org/download/plain_speaker_1201_librivox/plainspeaker_45_hazlitt_64kb.mp3 Wed, 19 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 26:20