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which Mr. Hazlitt has treated dead and living scholars, 

 the latchets of whose shoes he is not worthy to unloose, 

 and to express their gratitude to whom is, or ought to be, 

 a pleasure to all honest lovers of their mother-tongue. 

 If he who has most to learn be the happiest man, Mr. 

 Hazlitt is indeed to be envied ; but we hope he will 

 learn a great deal before he lays his prentice hands on 

 Warton's "History of English Poetry," a classic in its 

 own way. If he does not learn before, he will be likely 

 to learn after, and in no agreeable fashion. 



