Hazlitt is not being entirely facetious when, at one point in On Reading Old.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bibliographic Romance: Bibliophilia and the Book Object] Reference

He recalls Hazlitt's curious saying that an improving author is never a great author.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rudyard Kipling] Reference

H.L. Mencken called Hazlitt "one of the few economists in human history who could really write.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Getting to the Bottom of the US Economic Woes] Reference

Rather than answer you shrill that I'm "Hazlitt" in drag - which isn't an argument - isn't even an insult.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

'Women of France,' Hazlitt's 'Essays,' Emerson's 'Representative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Charlotte Bronte — Volume 2] Reference

'It was Hazlitt at the beginning of last year, sir.    From Wordnik.com.  [Despair's Last Journey] Reference

Hazlitt, W. Characters of Shakespeare's plays, 1817.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Facts About Shakespeare] Reference

Hazlitt gives two examples of this species of knavery.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference

Hazlitt has, in his attractive manner, described him to the life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference

Ritson's 'Ancient Songs and Ballads' was revised by Hazlitt in 1877.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference

Hazlitt brought me a letter of introduction from the Emperor Napoleon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

Hazlitt under similar inspiration, and was followed by abusive papers in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early Reviews of English Poets] Reference

I was not inclined to think much of either of them; but I knew Hazlitt was.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

Hazlitt says it ought to be read by every lover of Hogarth and English genius.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863] Reference

Indeed, I live upon the essays of Elia, as Hazlitt did upon "Tristram Shandy," as.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863] Reference

"Classical antiquity is nearer to us than the intervening darkness," said Hazlitt.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863] Reference

Hazlitt she ranked highly as an essayist, and she mentioned that she had heard both.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860] Reference

Hazlitt in his essay on the 'Ignorance of the Learned' teaches much the same doctrine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference

There was no justification for Hazlitt, and none has been attempted by his biographers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early Reviews of English Poets] Reference

Melbourne, it appears, enjoyed his sittings, for he asked many questions about Hazlitt, Leigh.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century] Reference

Hazlitt, like his friends the Lambs, when they visited Versailles in 1822, embarked at Brighton.    From Wordnik.com.  [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference

Hazlitt, in his own case, surmised that the keener interest of writing rather asphyxiated the impulse to read.    From Wordnik.com.  [Walking-Stick Papers] Reference

Hazlitt said that 'Haydon talked well on most subjects that interest one; indeed, better than any painter I ever met.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century] Reference

Hazlitt speaks of the songs in them as having a joyous spirit of intoxication, and strains of the most melting tenderness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Old Time Beauties After Portraits by the English Masters, with Embellishment and Comment] Reference

These have been culled by the affectionate admiration of Lamb, Hunt, and Hazlitt, and made familiar to all English readers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867] Reference

Hazlitt says that no one ever stammered out such fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in a half-dozen half-sentences as he did.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863] Reference

In other words, he allows, as Hazlitt did not allow, for the many-sidedness of poetry, and the infinite variety of poetic genius.    From Wordnik.com.  [English literary criticism] Reference

Although they do not appear in the old standard collections made by Bohn, Apperson, and Hazlitt, Morris P. Tilley, who has used R.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collection of Scotch Proverbs] Reference

Hazlitt is too apt to confine "nature" to the nature of Englishmen in general and, in his weaker moments, of Hazlitt in particular.    From Wordnik.com.  [English literary criticism] Reference