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Pagina 166
... death become more familiar to us as we approach nearer to it : that life seems to ebb with the decay of blood and youthful spirits ; and that as we find everything about us subject to chance and change , as our strength and beauty die ...
... death become more familiar to us as we approach nearer to it : that life seems to ebb with the decay of blood and youthful spirits ; and that as we find everything about us subject to chance and change , as our strength and beauty die ...
Pagina 167
... death , locking up its faculties and benumbing its senses ; so that , if it could , it would complain of its own hard state . Perhaps religious considerations reconcile the mind to this change sooner than any others , by representing ...
... death , locking up its faculties and benumbing its senses ; so that , if it could , it would complain of its own hard state . Perhaps religious considerations reconcile the mind to this change sooner than any others , by representing ...
Pagina 171
... death . It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain , but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being . Sedentary and studious men are the most apprehensive on this score . Dr. Johnson was an ...
... death . It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain , but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being . Sedentary and studious men are the most apprehensive on this score . Dr. Johnson was an ...
Inhoudsopgave
On the Love of Life | 8 |
On Living to Onesself | 24 |
On Reading Old Books | 40 |
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Selected Essays of William Hazlitt, 1778-1830 William Hazlitt,Geoffrey Keynes Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2013 |
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abstract absurdity admiration appearance battle of Marengo beauty better character circumstances Coleridge common contempt conversation Correggio death delight effect equally expression face fancy favour favourite feeling French French Revolution friends genius Gil Blas give habit hand Hazlitt hear heart House of Commons Hudibras human humour idea imagination impression indifference instance interest Jeremy Taylor laugh learned less live look Lord Lord Byron manner means mind Molière nature never object observation once opinion ourselves pain painting Paradise Lost pass passion perhaps person play pleasure poet poetry prejudice pretensions pride principle prose reason Rembrandt seems sense sentiment Shakespear shew sort sound speak spirit spleen style supposed talk taste things thought tion Titian Tom Jones true truth turn understanding vanity virtue vulgar William Hazlitt Winterslow wish words write