Selected Essays of William Hazlitt, 1778-1830Random House, 1930 - 807 pagina's |
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Pagina 191
... answer all the same purpose without understanding , gaiety without wit , folly without good - nature , and impudence without any other pretension . The natural and instinctive passion of love is excited by qualities not peculiar to ...
... answer all the same purpose without understanding , gaiety without wit , folly without good - nature , and impudence without any other pretension . The natural and instinctive passion of love is excited by qualities not peculiar to ...
Pagina 253
... answer ! The reputation of some books is raw and unaired : that of others is worm - eaten and mouldy . Why fix our affec- tions on that which we cannot bring ourselves to have faith in , or which others have long ceased to trouble them ...
... answer ! The reputation of some books is raw and unaired : that of others is worm - eaten and mouldy . Why fix our affec- tions on that which we cannot bring ourselves to have faith in , or which others have long ceased to trouble them ...
Pagina 428
... answer- " And not till then ! " Sir Robert Walpole's definition of the gratitude of place - expectants , that " it is a lively sense of future favours , " is no doubt wit , but it does not consist in the finding out any coincidence or ...
... answer- " And not till then ! " Sir Robert Walpole's definition of the gratitude of place - expectants , that " it is a lively sense of future favours , " is no doubt wit , but it does not consist in the finding out any coincidence or ...
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On the Love of Life | 8 |
On Living to Onesself | 24 |
On Reading Old Books | 40 |
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