The Hazlitts: an account of their origin and descent . i:^^. HIS MSS. 189 He usually, indeed, employed foolscap paper, andwrote in what Leigh Hunt once called a majestichand. He reckoned a page of his MS. as equal tothe page of an ordinary octavo printed book, and hetherefore knew at any time, to a remarkable nicety,what progress he had made in his work. It was notan uncommon thing when he saw his way clearly,and the subject was well mapped out, to get throughfifteen sides of foolscap in a day; but, on the otherhand, if he was in indifferent health, or, worse thanthat, in bad cue, he occupied
The Hazlitts: an account of their origin and descent . i:^^. HIS MSS. 189 He usually, indeed, employed foolscap paper, andwrote in what Leigh Hunt once called a majestichand. He reckoned a page of his MS. as equal tothe page of an ordinary octavo printed book, and hetherefore knew at any time, to a remarkable nicety,what progress he had made in his work. It was notan uncommon thing when he saw his way clearly,and the subject was well mapped out, to get throughfifteen sides of foolscap in a day; but, on the otherhand, if he was in indifferent health, or, worse thanthat, in bad cue, he occupied two or three weeks upona single essay. His MSS. are unequal in respect toalterations and erasures. Some are scored throughand through, while in others there is not a blot, andthe whole is as clear as copper-plate. The theme,and the mood in which he happened to approach it,and other surroundings, had a great deal to do withthis part of the matter. The folio specimen of his writing here exhibitedwas not chosen on account of the excellence of theexecution, bu
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