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William Carew Hazlitt
William Carew Hazlitt (1834–1913) was a British bibliographer, editor, and writer, best known for his extensive work on early English literature. He edited and published numerous collections of writings, including "The Poems of Robert Herrick" and "Shakespeare Jest-Books". Hazlitt was the grandson of the famed essayist William Hazlitt, and he dedicated much of his career to preserving his grandfather's legacy. He also authored several important reference works, such as "Handbook to the Popular, Poetical, and Dramatic Literature of Great Britain".
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THE EARLY ENGLISHMAN AND HIS FOOD. William of Malmesbury particularly dwells on the broad line of distinction still existing between the southern English and the folk of the more northerly districts in his day, twelve hundred years after the visit of Caesar. He says that they were then (about A.D. 1150) as different as if they had been different races; and so in fact they were—different in their...
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INTRODUCTION. When a small impression of these quaint old books issued from the Chiswick Press, many years ago, under the auspices of the late Mr. S. W. Singer, that gentleman merely designed the copies struck off for presentation to a select circle of literary friends who, like himself, felt a warm interest in every relic of the past which helped to illustrate Shakespeare and ancient English manners....
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