Hazlitt

[ haz-lit ]

noun

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

Hazlitt

/ ˈhæzlɪt /

noun

1. HazlittWilliam17781830MEnglishWRITING: criticWRITING: essayist 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.”

From Washington Post

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

From New York Times

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

From New York Times

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.”

From New York Times

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

From The Guardian