William Hazlit, Essayist And Critic; Selections From His Writings, With a Memoir, Biographical And Critical
The book William Hazlit, Essayist And Critic; Selections From His Writings, With a Memoir, Biographical And Critical was written by author Hazlitt, William, 1778-1830 Here you can read free online of William Hazlit, Essayist And Critic; Selections From His Writings, With a Memoir, Biographical And Critical book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is William Hazlit, Essayist And Critic; Selections From His Writings, With a Memoir, Biographical And Critical a good or bad book?
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What stubborn things are facts ! How inexhaustible is nature and art ! " It is well," as I once heard Mr. Richmond observe, "to see a variety.'' He was speaking of cock-fighting as an edifying spectacle. I cannot deny but that one learns more of what is (I do not say of what ought to be) in this desultory mode of practical study than from reading the same book twice over, even though it should be a moral treatise. Wiere was I ? I was sitting at diimer with the candidate for the honours of the r...ing, " where good digestion waits on appe- tite, and health on both." Then follows an hour of social chat and native glee ; and afterwards, to another breathing over heathy hill or dale. Back to supper, and then to bed, and up by six again — our hero "Follows so the ever-running sun, With profitable ardour " — ■ to the day that brings him victory or defeat in the green fairy circle. Is not this life more sweet than mine ? I was going to say ; but I will not libel any life by comparing it to mine, which is (at 270 WILLIAM HAZLITT— ESSAYIST AND CRITIC.
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