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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... effect of the main thesis, and no one can regret them. His style, being conversational, is never forced. He is carried away on the current of his thoughts, and never has recourse to any laboured originality which would indeed be foreign ...
... effect of the main thesis, and no one can regret them. His style, being conversational, is never forced. He is carried away on the current of his thoughts, and never has recourse to any laboured originality which would indeed be foreign ...
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... , always produce a pleasing effect upon the mind. ON THE LOVE OF LIFE (THE EXAMINER, JAN. 15, 1815). 1 Pope also declares that he had a particular regard for an old post which stood in the courtyard before the house where he was brought up.
... , always produce a pleasing effect upon the mind. ON THE LOVE OF LIFE (THE EXAMINER, JAN. 15, 1815). 1 Pope also declares that he had a particular regard for an old post which stood in the courtyard before the house where he was brought up.
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... effect not of our enjoyments, but of our passions. We are not attached to it so much for its own sake, or as it is connected with happiness, as because it is necessary to action. Without life there can be no action—no objects of pursuit ...
... effect not of our enjoyments, but of our passions. We are not attached to it so much for its own sake, or as it is connected with happiness, as because it is necessary to action. Without life there can be no action—no objects of pursuit ...
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... effect on the imagination of others, and we conform to their prejudices by mechanical sympathy, and for want of sufficient spirit to differ with them. So far then is public opinion from resting on a broad and solid basis, as the ...
... effect on the imagination of others, and we conform to their prejudices by mechanical sympathy, and for want of sufficient spirit to differ with them. So far then is public opinion from resting on a broad and solid basis, as the ...
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... effect of which you are unable to account for. There is then no sympathy, but an uneasy craving after it, and a dissatisfaction which pursues you on the way, and in the end probably produces illhumour. Now I never quarrel with myself ...
... effect of which you are unable to account for. There is then no sympathy, but an uneasy craving after it, and a dissatisfaction which pursues you on the way, and in the end probably produces illhumour. Now I never quarrel with myself ...
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