[72] The quotation is from Coleridge, and it was applied by him to Dryden. Hazlitt himself unconsciously expanded and spoiled it in his essay on _Burke_. “The wheels of his imagination did not catch fire from the rottenness of the material, but from the rapidity of their motion.”
[73] The Rev. H. R. Haweis has another characterization of these breathing and burning pages: “long and tiresome essays by Hazlitt.” So they are, sure enough, if only you be endowed to think so! Hazlitt himself gives the diverting fact for what it is worth, that “three chimney-sweeps meeting three Chinese in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, they laughed at one another till they were ready to drop down.”
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Transcriber’s note:
Obvious punctuation errors were corrected.
Repeated headings were removed.
Page 56, “Llansaintfraed” changed to “Llansantffraed” (brother’s parish of Llansantffraed)
Page 171, Footnote 37, “Farquhare” and “Farqhare” retained as printed from the matriculation entry.