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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... look for a coronation, or the death of an enemy, or a day of joy, passing from fancy to possession without any intermediate notices, we throw away a precious year.” JEREMY TAYLOR.—We would willingly, and without remorse, sacrifice not ...
... look for a coronation, or the death of an enemy, or a day of joy, passing from fancy to possession without any intermediate notices, we throw away a precious year.” JEREMY TAYLOR.—We would willingly, and without remorse, sacrifice not ...
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... look on one, the least of nature's works; One who might move the wise man to that scorn Which wisdom holds unlawful ever.” He looks out of himself at the wide, extended prospect of nature, and takes an interest beyond his narrow ...
... look on one, the least of nature's works; One who might move the wise man to that scorn Which wisdom holds unlawful ever.” He looks out of himself at the wide, extended prospect of nature, and takes an interest beyond his narrow ...
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... look into a criticism unless some one has tasted it for him, to see that there is no offence in it: if he does not draw crowded houses every night, he can neither eat nor sleep; or if all these terrible inflictions are removed, and he ...
... look into a criticism unless some one has tasted it for him, to see that there is no offence in it: if he does not draw crowded houses every night, he can neither eat nor sleep; or if all these terrible inflictions are removed, and he ...
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... look into Anastasius; but I have not yet ventured upon that task. A lady, the other day, could not refrain from expressing her surprise to a friend, who said he had been reading Delphine:1—she asked,—If it had not been published some ...
... look into Anastasius; but I have not yet ventured upon that task. A lady, the other day, could not refrain from expressing her surprise to a friend, who said he had been reading Delphine:1—she asked,—If it had not been published some ...
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... look into their works. But the dust and smoke and noise of modern literature have nothing in common with the pure, silent air of immortality. When I take up a work that I have read before (the oftener the better) I know what I have to ...
... look into their works. But the dust and smoke and noise of modern literature have nothing in common with the pure, silent air of immortality. When I take up a work that I have read before (the oftener the better) I know what I have to ...
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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