The Hazlitts: an account of their origin and descent . em to be re-edified. I should like to see someprospect of good to mankind, such as my lifebegan with. I should like to leave some sterlingwork behind me. I should like to have somefriendly hand to consign me to the grave. On theseconditions I am ready, if not willing, to depart. Ishall then v/rite on my tomb—Grateful and ^ Probably in Stoddarts version. 314 THE HAZLITTS Contented. But I have thought and suffered toomuch to be willing to have thought and suffered invain. In looking back, it sometimes appears to meas if 1 had in a manner sle
The Hazlitts: an account of their origin and descent . em to be re-edified. I should like to see someprospect of good to mankind, such as my lifebegan with. I should like to leave some sterlingwork behind me. I should like to have somefriendly hand to consign me to the grave. On theseconditions I am ready, if not willing, to depart. Ishall then v/rite on my tomb—Grateful and ^ Probably in Stoddarts version. 314 THE HAZLITTS Contented. But I have thought and suffered toomuch to be willing to have thought and suffered invain. In looking back, it sometimes appears to meas if 1 had in a manner slept out my life in a dreamof shadow on the side of the hill of knowledge,where I have fed on books, on thoughts, on pictures. . waked out of this dim, twilight existence, andstartled with the parting scene, I have felt a wish todescend to the world of realities, and join in thechase. But, I fear, too late, and that I had betterreturn to my bookish chimeras and indolenceonce more. Zanetto, lascia le donne, e studia lamatematica. I will think of XXXUI DEATH OF HAZLITT—EARLY FORTUNES OFHIS ONLY CHILD Hazijtt died at No. 6 Frith Street, Soho, onSaturday, September 18, 1830.^ His physicalstrength was thoroughly prostrate, and Procter,who had paid him a visit not long before, wasshocked by the sad spectacle of his old acquaintance,once so alert and so strenuous, not only bedridden,but scarcely able to raise his hand above the coverlid,or to utter articulate sounds. But he appears,almost to the last, to have preserved his conscious-ness and even recollection. He had during some time suffered from sleep-lessness, and his medical advisers, of whom therewere three, found it desirable to administer anopiate. At least two locks of his hair, dark brownslightly tinctured with grey, were cut off—it isbelieved by Home, and one passed into the possessionof ]Mr. Buxton Forman. Tlie other was eitherbegged or received by his first wife — the SarahStoddart of 1808—who WTapped it in a
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