William Hazlitt: Selected Essays Glossary

By Sudip Das Gupta · Edited by Patrick Kennedy · Last reviewed May 13, 2020

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Written by Sudip Das Gupta

"vegetate"

Do nothing

"encumbrance"

Hindrance

"truce"

Treaty, agreement

"Tilbury"

A kind of gig for two, probably so called from the name of its first maker

"repose"

Rest

"All-Foxden"

Near Nether Stowey, Somersetshire, where Coleridge was living in 1798

"turreted"

Towered

"frittered"

Break into fragments

"Shandean"

Like the character of Tristram Shandy

"enraptured"

Intense pleasure

"éclat"

Brilliant display

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