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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... better than to be nothing, because we can feel no interest in nothing. Passion, imagination, selfwill, the sense of power, the very consciousness of our existence, bind us to life, and hold us fast in its chains, as by a magic spell, in ...
... better than to be nothing, because we can feel no interest in nothing. Passion, imagination, selfwill, the sense of power, the very consciousness of our existence, bind us to life, and hold us fast in its chains, as by a magic spell, in ...
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... better than “the theorique”? No. He knows no liberal or mechanic art, no trade or occupation, no game of skill or chance. Learning “has no skill in surgery,” in agriculture, in building, in working in wood or in iron; it cannot make any ...
... better than “the theorique”? No. He knows no liberal or mechanic art, no trade or occupation, no game of skill or chance. Learning “has no skill in surgery,” in agriculture, in building, in working in wood or in iron; it cannot make any ...
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... better place or humour than I am at present for writing on this subject. I have a partridge getting ready for my supper, my fire is blazing on the hearth, the air is mild for the season of the year, I have had but a slight fit of ...
... better place or humour than I am at present for writing on this subject. I have a partridge getting ready for my supper, my fire is blazing on the hearth, the air is mild for the season of the year, I have had but a slight fit of ...
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... better to live to others than one'sself; but as the case stands, I incline to the negative side of the question1.— “I have not loved the world, nor the world me; I have not flattered its rank breath, nor bow'd To its idolatries a ...
... better to live to others than one'sself; but as the case stands, I incline to the negative side of the question1.— “I have not loved the world, nor the world me; I have not flattered its rank breath, nor bow'd To its idolatries a ...
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... better (not a bit more enlightened or more liberal), except that you are no longer in their power, and that the voice of common fame saves them the trouble of deciding on your claims. The public now are the posterity of Milton and ...
... better (not a bit more enlightened or more liberal), except that you are no longer in their power, and that the voice of common fame saves them the trouble of deciding on your claims. The public now are the posterity of Milton and ...
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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