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… close by: ‘Who’s your fat friend?’ (Jesse I: 274), thereby hardly endearing himself to his former protector. 2   William Hazlitt, who collected some of Brummell’s sayings, viewed them with scepticism; it also seems that once the dandy had … his epigrammatic statements funny. 2 . Many of these insolent replies are taken up by Jesse and Kelly. See also William Hazlitt [and (?) Leigh Hunt], ‘Brummelliana,’ in Duncan Wu (ed.), New Writings of William Hazlitt, vol. I / II …

… occur after a tragic event. This was the case during the Stilton match (6 May 1789) opposing Mendoza and Humphreys. William Ward, a pugilist, had travelled to Stilton with his fraternity to watch the boxing match but was challenged to … 6 . Edward Barry, A Letter on the Practice of Boxing (London: A. Grant, 1789), p.28. A national and manly entertainment William Cobbett ‘In Defense of Boxing’ (1805) During the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, the debates on boxing and its … defeated Napoleon The ambiguities of boxing after the Tory backlash following Waterloo were also pondered by William Hazlitt in two essays published in the New Monthly Magazine in 1822 and 1825. 14 In the essay entitled ‘The Fight’, …

… Romanticism ‘The web of our Life is of mingled Yarn,’ writes John Keats (1795-1821), echoing his presiding genius, William Shakespeare, in an October 1817 letter to Benjamin Bailey which details the sometimes fraught relationships … circle frequented, in the first two decades of the nineteenth century, by such notable thinkers and artists as William Hazlitt, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Charles Lamb, Benjamin Robert Haydon, and John Hamilton Reynolds (all of whom …