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And it was the most natural thing in the world that 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 ...
And it was the most natural thing in the world that 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 ...
Page 85
Moreover he had a store of old anecdotes , any one of which might be called up by something in the morning's paper , or by Hazlitt's stimulating questions ; and either he or Hazlitt ( I shall not try to sort out the truth ) gave these ...
Moreover he had a store of old anecdotes , any one of which might be called up by something in the morning's paper , or by Hazlitt's stimulating questions ; and either he or Hazlitt ( I shall not try to sort out the truth ) gave these ...
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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 , and at ...
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 , and at ...
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