“He talked on for ever; and you wished him to talk on for ever.”

— William Hazlitt

Lectures on the English Poets http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16209/16209.txt (1818), Lecture VIII, "On the Living Poets"

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English writer 1778–1830

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