Londoner's Post: Letters to Gog and MagogHutchinson, 1952 - 174 pages |
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Page 84
... Hazlitt should go often to Northcote's studio , watch him paint , and lead him to talk of the famous past . Lamb said , whether ruefully or with enjoyment I do not completely recollect , that Hazlitt could and did repeat in one company ...
... Hazlitt should go often to Northcote's studio , watch him paint , and lead him to talk of the famous past . Lamb said , whether ruefully or with enjoyment I do not completely recollect , that Hazlitt could and did repeat in one company ...
Page 85
... Hazlitt's stimulating questions ; and either he or Hazlitt ( I shall not try to sort out the truth ) gave these anecdotes malice , fun , or a turn of allusion which , to me , is inexhaustibly amusing . Hazlitt had his own malice ...
... Hazlitt's stimulating questions ; and either he or Hazlitt ( I shall not try to sort out the truth ) gave these anecdotes malice , fun , or a turn of allusion which , to me , is inexhaustibly amusing . Hazlitt had his own malice ...
Page 138
... Hazlitt . It is on Lamb's model rather than Hazlitt's own that subsequent writers of the essay have formed themselves . I do not want to belittle Hazlitt ; it is too often done . He was a great essayist . His range is wider than Lamb's ...
... Hazlitt . It is on Lamb's model rather than Hazlitt's own that subsequent writers of the essay have formed themselves . I do not want to belittle Hazlitt ; it is too often done . He was a great essayist . His range is wider than Lamb's ...
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WHY READ THE CLASSICS? Page | 9 |
DICKENS AND THACKERAY AT CHRISTMAS | 15 |
MARY RUSSELL MITFORD | 21 |
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