William Hazlitt
Who is William Hazlitt
William Hazlitt (10 April 1778 – 18 September 1830) was an English essayist, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher. He is now considered one of the greatest critics and essayists in the history of the English language, placed in the company of Samuel Johnson and George Orwell. He is also acknowledged as the finest art critic of his age. Despite his high standing among historians of literature and art, his work is currently little read and mostly out of print.During his lifetime he befriended many people who are now part of the 19th-century literary canon, including Charles and Mary Lamb, Stendhal, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, and John Keats.
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- Iwestayunited: ''prejudice is the child of ignorance'' - william hazlitt the “i told trump that the rally looked vanilla on television. trump responded, ‘that’s because black people are too stupid to vote for me.'” - michael cohen
- A_r_burns: "we find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation."
- william hazlitt, 1837
- Christiandeco5: "if you think you can win, you can win. faith is necessary to victory." - william hazlitt
- Dit_kurniawan: william hazlitt -
those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
- Iwestayunited: ''prejudice is the child of ignorance'' - william hazlitt the ''why do we want all these people coming from 'shithole' counties coming here?'' - donald trump
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