No one ever sought his society who did not come away with a more favorable opinion of him.--William Hazlitt, on Leigh Hunt
@levistahl Hmm. Didn't Dickens use Leigh Hunt as the basis for the odious Harold Skimpole in Bleak House?
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@HeerJeet He did, though I've always been fairly sympathetic to Hunt: big family, big debts, rich, unreliable friends, tough times. -
@levistahl Oh yeah, agree. For that matter, Dickens liked Hunt, just used him (as Chesterton suggests) as jumping off point for Skimpole - Show replies
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@HeerJeet FWIW, Hazlitt does acknowledge in that portrait that friendship might be tainting his judgment. -
@levistahl Hazlitt I suspect had a broader tolerance for human frailty than Dickens, who was more "Victorian" in his morality. - Show replies
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