Refinement creates beauty everywhere: it is the grossness o… - William Hazlitt

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Refinement creates beauty everywhere: it is the grossness of the spectator that discovers nothing but grossness in the object.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt (10 April 1778 – 18 September 1830) was an English writer remembered for his humanistic essays and literary criticism. He is sometimes esteemed the greatest English literary critic after Samuel Johnson.

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Alternative Names: Wm. Haslett • William Carew Hazlitt

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Refinement creates beauty everywhere: it is the grossness of the spectator that discovers nothing but grossness in the object. - William Hazlitt

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