This is the test and triumph of originality, not to show us what has never been, and what we may therefore very easily never have dreamt of, but to point out to us what is before our eyes and under our feet, though we have had no suspicion of its existence, for want of sufficient strength of intuition, of determined grasp of mind to seize and retain it.


Table Talk; or, Original Essays (ed. 1821)

William Hazlitt Quotes

This is the test and triumph of originality, not to show us what has never been, and what we may therefore very easily never have dreamt of, but to...

This is the test and triumph of originality, not to show us what has never been, and what we may therefore very easily never have dreamt of, but to...

This is the test and triumph of originality, not to show us what has never been, and what we may therefore very easily never have dreamt of, but to...

This is the test and triumph of originality, not to show us what has never been, and what we may therefore very easily never have dreamt of, but to...