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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... 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 only the present moment, but all the interval (no matter how long) ...
... 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 only the present moment, but all the interval (no matter how long) ...
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... pass for learneder than he that's known To speak the strongest reason in his own.” BUTLER. THE description of ... passes around him or in his own mind. Such a one may be said to carry his understanding about with him in his pocket, or to ...
... pass for learneder than he that's known To speak the strongest reason in his own.” BUTLER. THE description of ... passes around him or in his own mind. Such a one may be said to carry his understanding about with him in his pocket, or to ...
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... passes for stupidity is much oftener a want of interest, of a sufficient motive to fix the attention and force a reluctant application to the dry and unmeaning pursuits of schoollearning. The best capacities are as much above this ...
... passes for stupidity is much oftener a want of interest, of a sufficient motive to fix the attention and force a reluctant application to the dry and unmeaning pursuits of schoollearning. The best capacities are as much above this ...
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... pass a twelvemonth with the undergraduates, or heads of colleges, of that famous university; and more home truths are to be learnt from listening to a noisy debate in an alehouse than from attending to a formal one in the House of ...
... pass a twelvemonth with the undergraduates, or heads of colleges, of that famous university; and more home truths are to be learnt from listening to a noisy debate in an alehouse than from attending to a formal one in the House of ...
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... passes into a proverb among the fair correspondents. This is not, however, an example of what I understand by living to one'sself, for Sir Charles Grandison was indeed always thinking of himself; but by this phrase I mean never thinking ...
... passes into a proverb among the fair correspondents. This is not, however, an example of what I understand by living to one'sself, for Sir Charles Grandison was indeed always thinking of himself; but by this phrase I mean never thinking ...
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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