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'A new heaven and a new earth stood before me'

What they have said, over the ages, about the Bridgewater Collection William Hazlitt, writer and philosopher, in 1797/98: "I was staggered when I saw the works, and I looked at them with wondering and with longing eyes. A new sense came upon me, a new heaven and a new earth stood before me."

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PHIL MILLER, Arts Correspondent

What they have said, over the ages, about the Bridgewater Collection

William Hazlitt, writer and philosopher, in 1797/98: "I was staggered when I saw the works, and I looked at them with wondering and with longing eyes.