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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... favourite retreat of Hazlitt's, on Salisbury Plain, and there he developed his literary projects, a History of English Philosophy, an English Grammar, and a Life of Holcroft. The first of these was afterwards abandoned, but the other ...
... favourite retreat of Hazlitt's, on Salisbury Plain, and there he developed his literary projects, a History of English Philosophy, an English Grammar, and a Life of Holcroft. The first of these was afterwards abandoned, but the other ...
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... favourite object. We chiefly look upon life, then, as the means to an end. Its common enjoyments and its daily evils are alike disregarded for any idle purpose we have in view. It should seem as if there were a few green sunny spots in ...
... favourite object. We chiefly look upon life, then, as the means to an end. Its common enjoyments and its daily evils are alike disregarded for any idle purpose we have in view. It should seem as if there were a few green sunny spots in ...
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... favourite was as much of one as possible. Some satirical critic has represented him in Elysium “bowing over the faded hand of Lady Grandison” (Miss Byron that was) —he ought to have been represented bowing over his own hand, for he ...
... favourite was as much of one as possible. Some satirical critic has represented him in Elysium “bowing over the faded hand of Lady Grandison” (Miss Byron that was) —he ought to have been represented bowing over his own hand, for he ...
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... favourites of Fortune and the Muse, of great generals, of firstrate actors, of celebrated poets. These are at the head; we are struck with the glittering eminence on which they stand, and long to set out on the same tempting career,—not ...
... favourites of Fortune and the Muse, of great generals, of firstrate actors, of celebrated poets. These are at the head; we are struck with the glittering eminence on which they stand, and long to set out on the same tempting career,—not ...
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... favourites, more hasty in laying them aside, lest it should be supposed deficient in sagacity in either case. It is generally divided into two strong parties, each of which will allow neither common sense nor common honesty to the other ...
... favourites, more hasty in laying them aside, lest it should be supposed deficient in sagacity in either case. It is generally divided into two strong parties, each of which will allow neither common sense nor common honesty to the other ...
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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