Selected Essays of William Hazlitt, 1778-1830Nonesuch Press, 1948 - 807 pagina's |
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Pagina 412
... laughter gives place to tears . It is usual to play with infants , and make them laugh by clapping your hands suddenly before them ; but if you clapped your hands too loud , or too near their sight , their countenances immediately ...
... laughter gives place to tears . It is usual to play with infants , and make them laugh by clapping your hands suddenly before them ; but if you clapped your hands too loud , or too near their sight , their countenances immediately ...
Pagina 413
... laughter.1 The transition here is not from one thing of importance to another , or from a state of indifference to a ... laugh at the unconsciousness of others as to its situation . A person concealed from assassins , is in no danger of ...
... laughter.1 The transition here is not from one thing of importance to another , or from a state of indifference to a ... laugh at the unconsciousness of others as to its situation . A person concealed from assassins , is in no danger of ...
Pagina 417
... laugh , you cannot give a reason why they should laugh ; -they must laugh of themselves , or not at all . As we laugh from a spon- taneous impulse , we laugh the more at any restraint upon this impulse . We laugh at a thing merely ...
... laugh , you cannot give a reason why they should laugh ; -they must laugh of themselves , or not at all . As we laugh from a spon- taneous impulse , we laugh the more at any restraint upon this impulse . We laugh at a thing merely ...
Inhoudsopgave
On the Love of Life | 8 |
On Living to Onesself | 24 |
On Reading Old Books | 40 |
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abstract admiration appearance beauty better Burke caput mortuum character Coleridge colour common conversation Correggio death delight effect English Essay expression face fancy favour favourite feeling French French Revolution friends genius give habit hand Hazlitt head heart House of Commons human humour idea imagination impression indifference interest Jeremy Taylor Job Orton Lamb laugh learned less live look Lord Lord Byron Lord Keppel manner means mind Molière nature Nether Stowey never object opinion ourselves pain painter painting pass passion perhaps person picture play pleasure poet poetry portrait prejudice pretensions principle prose reason Rembrandt round seems sense sentiment Shakespear shew sort sound speak spirit style supposed talk taste things thought tion Titian Tom Jones truth turn understanding vanity virtue vulgar William Hazlitt Winterslow wish words write