Selected Essays of William Hazlitt1930 |
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Pagina 66
... tion of danger . He is uneasy at his own good fortune , as it takes from him his favourite topic of repining and complaint . Let him succeed to his heart's content in all that is reasonable or important , yet if there is any one thing ...
... tion of danger . He is uneasy at his own good fortune , as it takes from him his favourite topic of repining and complaint . Let him succeed to his heart's content in all that is reasonable or important , yet if there is any one thing ...
Pagina 397
... tion ; we can only fancy what we do not know . As in looking into the mazes of a tangled wood we fill them with what shapes we please , with ravenous beasts , with caverns vast , and drear enchantments , so in our ignorance of the world ...
... tion ; we can only fancy what we do not know . As in looking into the mazes of a tangled wood we fill them with what shapes we please , with ravenous beasts , with caverns vast , and drear enchantments , so in our ignorance of the world ...
Pagina 580
... tion and hostile factions . Mr. Irving speaks of the great superiority of religion over every other motive , since it enabled its professors to " endure having hot molten lead poured down their throats . " He forgets that it was ...
... tion and hostile factions . Mr. Irving speaks of the great superiority of religion over every other motive , since it enabled its professors to " endure having hot molten lead poured down their throats . " He forgets that it was ...
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