Hazlitt

[haz-lit]

noun

1. William, 1778–1830, English critic and essayist.

Hazlitt

/ ˈhæzlɪt /

noun

1. William. 1778–1830, English critic and essayist: works include Characters of Shakespeare's Plays (1817), Table Talk (1821), and The Plain Speaker (1826)

Example Sentences

He acknowledged in Hazlitt magazine that while he “actively broke” his mother’s Russian rituals, they were “a reminder of a home I’m in danger of forgetting.”

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And I was staying at the hotel, Hazlitt’s, so Elena came to do the fitting with me there.

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On a hammock in August 1981, discovering William Hazlitt in a paperback borrowed from the owners, overlooking a pond, not too buggy.

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He approximated a quote from William Hazlitt, an English writer: “Death conceals everything but truth and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue.”

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As William Hazlitt, the 18th-century essayist and celebrated mocker of Wordsworth might have said, disbelief is the new spirit of the age.

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