Selected Essays of William Hazlitt, 1778-1830Nonesuch Press, 1948 - 807 pagina's |
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Pagina 469
... write a good style who was not in the habit of talking and hearing the sound of his own voice . He might as well have said that no one could relish a good style without reading it aloud , as we find common people do to assist their ...
... write a good style who was not in the habit of talking and hearing the sound of his own voice . He might as well have said that no one could relish a good style without reading it aloud , as we find common people do to assist their ...
Pagina 474
... write without affectation is to write at random . the contrary , there is nothing that requires more pre- cision , and , if I may so say , purity of expression , than the style I am speaking of . It utterly rejects not only all ...
... write without affectation is to write at random . the contrary , there is nothing that requires more pre- cision , and , if I may so say , purity of expression , than the style I am speaking of . It utterly rejects not only all ...
Pagina 475
... write about . Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence , or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts ; but to write or speak with propriety and simplicity is a more difficult task . Thus it is easy to affect a pompous style ...
... write about . Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence , or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts ; but to write or speak with propriety and simplicity is a more difficult task . Thus it is easy to affect a pompous style ...
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