Selected Essays of William Hazlitt, 1778-1830Nonesuch Press, 1934 - 807 pagina's |
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Pagina 474
... vulgar style , and suppose that to write without affectation is to write at random . the contrary , there is nothing that requires more pre- cision , and , if I may so say , purity of expression , than the style I am speaking of . It ...
... vulgar style , and suppose that to write without affectation is to write at random . the contrary , there is nothing that requires more pre- cision , and , if I may so say , purity of expression , than the style I am speaking of . It ...
Pagina 480
... vulgar failing of the Sermo humi obrepens — their most ordinary speech is never short of an hyperbole , splendid , imposing , vague , incomprehensible , magniloquent , a cento of sounding common - places . If some of us , whose ...
... vulgar failing of the Sermo humi obrepens — their most ordinary speech is never short of an hyperbole , splendid , imposing , vague , incomprehensible , magniloquent , a cento of sounding common - places . If some of us , whose ...
Pagina 741
... vulgar ; and nothing contents his fastidious taste beyond a simple garland of flowers . Neither does he avail himself of the advantages which nature or ac- cident holds out to him . He chooses to have his subject a foil to his invention ...
... vulgar ; and nothing contents his fastidious taste beyond a simple garland of flowers . Neither does he avail himself of the advantages which nature or ac- cident holds out to him . He chooses to have his subject a foil to his invention ...
Inhoudsopgave
On the Love of Life | 8 |
On Living to Onesself | 24 |
On Reading Old Books | 40 |
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