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His thoughts did not seem to come with labour and effort; but as if borne on gusts of genius, and as if the wings of his imagination lifted him off from his feet. . . . His mind was clothed with wings; and raised on them, he lifted philosophy to heaven.

Source: Lectures on the English Poets, On the Living Poets (1818). Coleridge, Hazlitt said, was the first poet he had ever known. See Hazlitt on Loquacity.
-- William Hazlitt, (Apr 10 1778-1830), English writer, essayist; He wrote Characters of Shakespeare's Plays, 1817; also noted for essays on value of humanity.

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