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… of Waterloo. 11 . ‘To your Lordship, who has gloriously contributed in person to earn the most splendid laurels for England, it mus be well known, that no soldiers or sailors, from one end of the globe to the other, show so much mercy to … in appearance, and sacred to the Fancy ! (Hazlitt, ‘The Fight’, 1) 14 . William Hazlitt, ‘The Fight’[1822], and ‘Merry England’ [1825], in A. R. Waller and Arnold Glovers (eds), The Collected Works of William Hazlitt, vol. 12, (London: J. … can be high spirits without low ones; and every thing has its price according to circumstances (William Hazlitt, ‘Merry England’, 16). Boxing, with its winners and losers, its codes and its brutal violence, its public made of ruffians and …
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