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Page 82
Lord Foppington , in the Relapse , is a most splendid caricature : he is a personification of the foppery and folly of dress and external appearance in full feather . He blazes out and dazzles sober reason with ridiculous ostentation .
Lord Foppington , in the Relapse , is a most splendid caricature : he is a personification of the foppery and folly of dress and external appearance in full feather . He blazes out and dazzles sober reason with ridiculous ostentation .
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His Lord Grizzle is prodigious . What a name , and what a person ! It has been said of this ingenious actor , that he is very great in Liston ; ' but he is even greater in Lord Grizzle . What a wig is that he wears !
His Lord Grizzle is prodigious . What a name , and what a person ! It has been said of this ingenious actor , that he is very great in Liston ; ' but he is even greater in Lord Grizzle . What a wig is that he wears !
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Orl . Why , my Lord , are not the fields mown and cut down , and stript bare , and yet wear they not pied coats again ? Though my head be like a leek , white , may not my heart be like the blade , green ? Hip .
Orl . Why , my Lord , are not the fields mown and cut down , and stript bare , and yet wear they not pied coats again ? Though my head be like a leek , white , may not my heart be like the blade , green ? Hip .
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| Title | The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Volume 6 The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Percival Presland Howe |
| Author | William Hazlitt |
| Editors | Percival Presland Howe, Alfred Rayney Waller, Arnold Glover |
| Compiled by | James Thornton |
| Publisher | J. M. Dent and Sons, Limited, 1931 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 6 Jul 2009 |
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