Selected Essays of William Hazlitt 1778 to 1830Read Books Ltd, 18 apr 2013 - 830 pagina's Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. |
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... character, his views become jaundiced, sinister, and double: he takes no farther interest in the great changes of the world but as he has a paltry share in producing them: instead of opening his senses, his understanding, and his heart ...
... character, his views become jaundiced, sinister, and double: he takes no farther interest in the great changes of the world but as he has a paltry share in producing them: instead of opening his senses, his understanding, and his heart ...
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... for his personal talents and character, but does not quite come up to our expectations in print. All these contradictions and petty details interrupt the calm current of our reflections. On Reading Old Books (Plain Speaker)
... for his personal talents and character, but does not quite come up to our expectations in print. All these contradictions and petty details interrupt the calm current of our reflections. On Reading Old Books (Plain Speaker)
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... character of Emilius, and of whom it is sure to be the bane. This dull, phlegmatic, retiring humour is not in a fair way to be corrected, but confirmed and rendered desperate, by being in that work held up as an object of imitation, as ...
... character of Emilius, and of whom it is sure to be the bane. This dull, phlegmatic, retiring humour is not in a fair way to be corrected, but confirmed and rendered desperate, by being in that work held up as an object of imitation, as ...
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Geoffrey Keynes. —from my interest in the events, and knowledge of the characters from other sources, and from having seen fine portraits of most of them. I like to read a wellpenned character, and Clarendon is said to have been a master ...
Geoffrey Keynes. —from my interest in the events, and knowledge of the characters from other sources, and from having seen fine portraits of most of them. I like to read a wellpenned character, and Clarendon is said to have been a master ...
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Geoffrey Keynes. ON. PERSONAL. CHARACTER. (LONDON MAGAZINE, MARCH, 1821) “Men palliate and conceal their original qualities, but do not extirpate them.”—MONTAIGNE'S Essays. NO one ever changes his character from the time he is two years old ...
Geoffrey Keynes. ON. PERSONAL. CHARACTER. (LONDON MAGAZINE, MARCH, 1821) “Men palliate and conceal their original qualities, but do not extirpate them.”—MONTAIGNE'S Essays. NO one ever changes his character from the time he is two years old ...
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abstract admiration Æschylus appearance beauty Beggar’s Opera better Burke Burke’s caput mortuum character circumstances Coleridge colours common commonplace conversation Correggio death delight effect English Essay expression face fancy favour favourite feeling French French Revolution friends genius give habit hand Hazlitt heart House of Commons human humour idea imagination impression indifference interest Job Orton Lamb laugh learned less live look Lord Lord Byron Lord Keppel man’s manner means mind Molière nature Nether Stowey never object one’s opinion ourselves pain painter painting pass passion perhaps person picture pleasure poet poetry portrait prejudice pretensions principle prose reason Rembrandt seems sense sentiment Shakespear shew sort sound speak spirit style supposed talk taste things thought Titian truth turn understanding vanity virtue vulgar William Hazlitt Winterslow wish words write