Selected Essays of William Hazlitt 1778 to 1830Read Books Ltd, 18 apr 2013 - 830 pagina's Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. |
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... admiration of others: it is a still greater one to be satisfied with one's own thoughts. As I look from the window at the wide bare heath before me, and through the misty moonlight air see the woods that wave over the top of Winterslow ...
... admiration of others: it is a still greater one to be satisfied with one's own thoughts. As I look from the window at the wide bare heath before me, and through the misty moonlight air see the woods that wave over the top of Winterslow ...
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... admired any one but himself, and was the God of his own idolatry. —Neither do I call it living to one'sself to retire into a desert (like the saints and martyrs of old) to be devoured by wild beasts, nor to descend into a cave to be ...
... admired any one but himself, and was the God of his own idolatry. —Neither do I call it living to one'sself to retire into a desert (like the saints and martyrs of old) to be devoured by wild beasts, nor to descend into a cave to be ...
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... admiring him too. He no more exists in the impression which “the fair variety of things” makes upon him, softened ... admired.” He could not give the craving appetite of an author's vanity one day's respite. I have seen a celebrated ...
... admiring him too. He no more exists in the impression which “the fair variety of things” makes upon him, softened ... admired.” He could not give the craving appetite of an author's vanity one day's respite. I have seen a celebrated ...
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... admiration is forced, and goes against the grain. Public obloquy is cordial and sincere: every individual feels his own importance in it. They give you up bound hand and foot into the power of your accusers. To attempt to defend ...
... admiration is forced, and goes against the grain. Public obloquy is cordial and sincere: every individual feels his own importance in it. They give you up bound hand and foot into the power of your accusers. To attempt to defend ...
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... admired only “in their newest gloss.” That is not my way. I am not one of those who trouble the circulating libraries much, or pester the booksellers for mailcoach copies of standard periodical publications. I cannot say that I am ...
... admired only “in their newest gloss.” That is not my way. I am not one of those who trouble the circulating libraries much, or pester the booksellers for mailcoach copies of standard periodical publications. I cannot say that I am ...
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abstract admiration Æschylus appearance beauty Beggar’s Opera better Burke Burke’s caput mortuum character circumstances Coleridge colours common commonplace conversation Correggio death delight effect English Essay expression face fancy favour favourite feeling French French Revolution friends genius give habit hand Hazlitt heart House of Commons human humour idea imagination impression indifference interest Job Orton Lamb laugh learned less live look Lord Lord Byron Lord Keppel man’s manner means mind Molière nature Nether Stowey never object one’s opinion ourselves pain painter painting pass passion perhaps person picture pleasure poet poetry portrait prejudice pretensions principle prose reason Rembrandt seems sense sentiment Shakespear shew sort sound speak spirit style supposed talk taste things thought Titian truth turn understanding vanity virtue vulgar William Hazlitt Winterslow wish words write