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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... poetry? He knows the number of feet in a verse, and of acts in a play; but of the soul or spirit he knows nothing. He can turn a Greek ode into English, or a Latin epigram into Greek verse; but whether either is worth the trouble he ...
... poetry? He knows the number of feet in a verse, and of acts in a play; but of the soul or spirit he knows nothing. He can turn a Greek ode into English, or a Latin epigram into Greek verse; but whether either is worth the trouble he ...
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... poets have sighed out their souls to the Muse in vain, without ever getting their effusions farther known than the Poet's Corner of a country newspaper, and looked and looked with grudging, wistful eyes at the envious horizon that ...
... poets have sighed out their souls to the Muse in vain, without ever getting their effusions farther known than the Poet's Corner of a country newspaper, and looked and looked with grudging, wistful eyes at the envious horizon that ...
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... poetry from the commencement of my acquaintance with the authors of the Lyrical Ballads; at least, my discrimination ... poetic diction and conception are concerned, I may be at a loss, and liable to be imposed upon: but in forming an ...
... poetry from the commencement of my acquaintance with the authors of the Lyrical Ballads; at least, my discrimination ... poetic diction and conception are concerned, I may be at a loss, and liable to be imposed upon: but in forming an ...
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... poetry. I believe it was the celebrated Sir Humphrey Davy who used to say, that Shakespeare was rather a metaphysician than a poet. At any rate, it was not ill said. I wish that I had sooner known the dramatic writers contemporary with ...
... poetry. I believe it was the celebrated Sir Humphrey Davy who used to say, that Shakespeare was rather a metaphysician than a poet. At any rate, it was not ill said. I wish that I had sooner known the dramatic writers contemporary with ...
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... Poets choose mistresses who have the fewest charms, that they may make something out of nothing. They succeed best in fiction, and they apply this rule to love. They make a Goddess of any dowdy. As Don Quixote said, in answer to the ...
... Poets choose mistresses who have the fewest charms, that they may make something out of nothing. They succeed best in fiction, and they apply this rule to love. They make a Goddess of any dowdy. As Don Quixote said, in answer to the ...
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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