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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... Talk, published in 1821–22, and the Plain Speaker, published in 1826. For a short time, owing to the sudden death of Scott, Hazlitt acted as editor of the London Magazine, but he did not remain long in London, returning soon to ...
... Talk, published in 1821–22, and the Plain Speaker, published in 1826. For a short time, owing to the sudden death of Scott, Hazlitt acted as editor of the London Magazine, but he did not remain long in London, returning soon to ...
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... nature with, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes and indolent dispositions. The bookworm wraps himself up in his web of verbal generalities, and On the Ignorance of the Learned (Table Talk)
... nature with, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes and indolent dispositions. The bookworm wraps himself up in his web of verbal generalities, and On the Ignorance of the Learned (Table Talk)
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... talks about as a blind man does of colours. He cannot give a satisfactory answer to the plainest question, nor is he ever in the right in any one of his opinions upon any one matter of fact that really comes before him, and yet he gives ...
... talks about as a blind man does of colours. He cannot give a satisfactory answer to the plainest question, nor is he ever in the right in any one of his opinions upon any one matter of fact that really comes before him, and yet he gives ...
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... Charles Grandison was indeed always thinking of himself; but by this phrase I mean never thinking at all about one'sself, any more than if there was no such person in existence. The character I On Living to One'sself (Table Talk)
... Charles Grandison was indeed always thinking of himself; but by this phrase I mean never thinking at all about one'sself, any more than if there was no such person in existence. The character I On Living to One'sself (Table Talk)
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... talk of the Scotch Novels as overrated. How then can common authors be supposed to keep their heads long above water? As a general rule, all those who live by the public starve, and are made a byword and a standing jest into the bargain ...
... talk of the Scotch Novels as overrated. How then can common authors be supposed to keep their heads long above water? As a general rule, all those who live by the public starve, and are made a byword and a standing jest into the bargain ...
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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