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And with him, as with Montaigne, the desire of self-portraiture is, below all more superficial tendencies, the real motive in writing at all a desire closely connected with that intimacy, that modern subjectivity, which may be called the Montaignesque element in literature.
And with him, as with Montaigne, the desire of self-portraiture is, below all more superficial tendencies, the real motive in writing at all a desire closely connected with that intimacy, that modern subjectivity, which may be called the Montaignesque element in literature.
Great as Hazlitt was as a miscellaneous and Montaignesque essayist, he was greater as a literary critic. His intense prejudices and his occasional inadequacy make themselves felt here as they do everywhere, and even here it is necessary to give the caution that Hazlitt is never to be trusted when he shows the least evidence of dislike for which he gives no reason.
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