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Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits

Name: Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits
Author: William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt

Read by Craig Campbell, Daniel Davison, Kazbek, Shreya Sethi, Garfield Dsouza, Steven Watson, Rolv Robole, jenno, Kat Andrews, weezer, Jesse Zuba and Arden · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

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Jeremy Bentham (41:23)
William Godwin (40:57)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (29:50)
Edward Irving (28:09)
Horne Tooke (34:45)
Walter Scott (36:12)
Lord Byron (31:38)
Thomas Campbell and George Crabb (33:10)
James Mackintosh (23:14)
William Wordsworth (28:56)
Thomas Malthus (35:54)
William Gifford (37:37)
Francis Jeffrey (29:19)
Henry Brougham and Francis Burdett (21:51)
John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon and William Wilberforce (23:33)
Robert Southey (24:52)
Thomas Moore and Leigh Hunt (21:42)
Elia (Charles Lamb)—Geoffrey Crayon (Washington Irving) (18:35)
James Sheridan Knowles (3:13)