The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Free thoughts on public affairs. Political essays. Advertisement, etc., from The eloquence of the British senateJ. M. Dent & Company, 1902 |
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Pagina 23
... poet , -When , stript of all her charms , The land of scholars , and the nurse of arms , Where noble stems transmit the patriot flame , Where kings have toil'd and poets wrote for fame , One sink of level avarice shall lie , And ...
... poet , -When , stript of all her charms , The land of scholars , and the nurse of arms , Where noble stems transmit the patriot flame , Where kings have toil'd and poets wrote for fame , One sink of level avarice shall lie , And ...
Pagina 27
... Poet Laureat Mr. Southey's New Year's Ode Dottrel - catching · The Bourbons and Buonaparte Vetus On the Courier and Times Newspapers Illustrations of Vetus On the late War . Prince Maurice's Parrot Whether the Friends of Freedom can ...
... Poet Laureat Mr. Southey's New Year's Ode Dottrel - catching · The Bourbons and Buonaparte Vetus On the Courier and Times Newspapers Illustrations of Vetus On the late War . Prince Maurice's Parrot Whether the Friends of Freedom can ...
Pagina 34
... poets with their pens . He who tells me this deprives me not only of the right , but of the very heart and will to be free , takes the breath out of the body of liberty , and leaves it a dead and helpless corse , destroys at one fell ...
... poets with their pens . He who tells me this deprives me not only of the right , but of the very heart and will to be free , takes the breath out of the body of liberty , and leaves it a dead and helpless corse , destroys at one fell ...
Pagina 47
... , and was copied the next day in the Chronicle with the following remarks : - " The treasury journals complain of the harsh treatment shewn to ministers , let us see how they treat MR . SOUTHEY , POET LAUREAT Some Sept. 18 , 47.
... , and was copied the next day in the Chronicle with the following remarks : - " The treasury journals complain of the harsh treatment shewn to ministers , let us see how they treat MR . SOUTHEY , POET LAUREAT Some Sept. 18 , 47.
Pagina 48
... poet ( two venerable names , which we should wish never to see disunited ) is said to owe his intended elevation to the intercession of Mr. Croker , to whom , it will be recollected , he has dedicated his Life of Lord Nelson , with an ...
... poet ( two venerable names , which we should wish never to see disunited ) is said to owe his intended elevation to the intercession of Mr. Croker , to whom , it will be recollected , he has dedicated his Life of Lord Nelson , with an ...
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The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Free thoughts on public affairs ... William Hazlitt Volledige weergave - 1902 |
The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Free thoughts on public affairs ... William Hazlitt Volledige weergave - 1902 |
The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Free thoughts on public affairs ... William Hazlitt Volledige weergave - 1902 |
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Pagina 192 - My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The Child is father of the Man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
Pagina 157 - What is he, whose grief Bears such an emphasis ? whose phrase of sorrow Conjures the wand'ring stars, and makes them stand Like wonder-wounded hearers ? this is I, Hamlet the Dane.
Pagina 156 - And not for justice? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world, But for supporting robbers; shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes? And sell the mighty space of our large...
Pagina 35 - For never can true reconcilement grow Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep...
Pagina 295 - Holla your name to the reverberate hills, And make the babbling gossip of the air Cry out, Olivia ! O, you should not rest Between the elements of air and earth, But you should pity me.
Pagina 122 - Avaunt ! and quit my sight ! Let the earth hide thee ! Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold ; Thou hast no speculation in those eyes Which thou dost glare with ! Lady M.
Pagina 152 - The preacher then launched into his subject, like an eagle dallying with the wind. The sermon was upon peace and war — upon church and state — not their alliance, but their separation — on the spirit of the world, and the spirit of Christianity, not as the same, but as opposed to one another. He talked of those who had inscribed the cross of Christ on banners dripping with human gore.
Pagina 459 - Thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Pagina 420 - Lord North. He was a man of admirable parts; of general knowledge; of a versatile understanding fitted for every sort of business; of infinite wit and pleasantry; of a delightful temper; and with a mind most perfectly disinterested. But it would be only to degrade myself by a weak adulation, and not to honour the memory of a great man, to deny that he wanted something of the vigilance and spirit of command, that the time required.
Pagina 46 - Tis avarice all, ambition is no more ! See, all our nobles begging to be slaves ! See, all our fools aspiring to be knaves ! The wit of cheats, the courage of a whore, Are what ten thousand envy and adore ! All, all look up with reverential awe, At crimes that 'scape, or triumph o'er the law : While truth, worth, wisdom, daily they decry — ' Nothing is sacred now but villany.