The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Lectures on the English comic writers. A view of the English stage. Dramatic essays from 'The London magazine.'J.M. Dent & Company, 1903 |
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... human heart with a word that explains its hollowness at once . Voltaire's saying , in answer to a stranger who was observing how tall his trees grew - That they had nothing else to do ' - was a quaint mixture of wit and humour , making ...
... human heart with a word that explains its hollowness at once . Voltaire's saying , in answer to a stranger who was observing how tall his trees grew - That they had nothing else to do ' - was a quaint mixture of wit and humour , making ...
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... human nature it implies , would hardly pass for wit without the alliteration , as some poetry would hardly be acknowledged as such without the rhyme to clench it . A quotation or a hackneyed phrase dextrously turned or wrested to ...
... human nature it implies , would hardly pass for wit without the alliteration , as some poetry would hardly be acknowledged as such without the rhyme to clench it . A quotation or a hackneyed phrase dextrously turned or wrested to ...
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... human life , without elevation or enthusiasm , and the illustration of it is of that quaint and familiar kind that is merely curious and fanciful . Cowley is an instance of the same kind in almost all his writings . Many of the jests ...
... human life , without elevation or enthusiasm , and the illustration of it is of that quaint and familiar kind that is merely curious and fanciful . Cowley is an instance of the same kind in almost all his writings . Many of the jests ...
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... human nature , and beheld its weaknesses and errors trans- ferred to another species . Vice and virtue were to him as plain as any objects of sense . He saw in man a talking , absurd , obstinate , proud , angry animal ; and clothed ...
... human nature , and beheld its weaknesses and errors trans- ferred to another species . Vice and virtue were to him as plain as any objects of sense . He saw in man a talking , absurd , obstinate , proud , angry animal ; and clothed ...
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... human breast ; Boileau , the flatterer of courts and judge of men ! Were these men nothing ? They have passed for men ( and great ones ) hitherto , and though the prejudice is an old one , I should hope it may still last our time ...
... human breast ; Boileau , the flatterer of courts and judge of men ! Were these men nothing ? They have passed for men ( and great ones ) hitherto , and though the prejudice is an old one , I should hope it may still last our time ...
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Page 512 - Shakspeare, that, take him for all in all, we shall not look upon his like again.
Page 210 - O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From this world-wearied flesh.
Page 207 - I have liv'd long enough : my way of life Is fallen into the sear, the yellow leaf : And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses not loud, but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Page 55 - Why so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale?
Page 450 - Methinks I should know you and know this man; yet I am doubtful: for I am mainly ignorant what place this is, and all the skill I have remembers not these garments; nor I know not where I did lodge last night.
Page 449 - Tom? whom the foul fiend hath led through fire and through flame, through ford and whirlpool, o'er bog and quagmire; that hath laid knives under his pillow, and halters in his pew...
Page 471 - Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven As make the angels weep.
Page 276 - All schooldays' friendship, childhood innocence? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key, As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds Had been incorporate. So we grew together Like to a double cherry, seeming parted But yet an union in partition...
Page 19 - Wit lying most in the assemblage of Ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant Pictures, and agreeable Visions in the fancy...
Page 16 - The sun had long since, in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap, And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn...