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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... manner reconciling us to its inevitable consequences . 6 Lastly , there is a wit of sense and observation , which consists in the acute illustration of good sense and practical wisdom , by means of some far - fetched conceit or quaint ...
... manner reconciling us to its inevitable consequences . 6 Lastly , there is a wit of sense and observation , which consists in the acute illustration of good sense and practical wisdom , by means of some far - fetched conceit or quaint ...
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... manners , who can easily turn themselves to all things , or turn all things to them- selves . ) It also procureth ... manner , an affectation of wit by degrees hardens the heart , and spoils good company and good manners . A perpetual ...
... manners , who can easily turn themselves to all things , or turn all things to them- selves . ) It also procureth ... manner , an affectation of wit by degrees hardens the heart , and spoils good company and good manners . A perpetual ...
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... manners . The most pungent ridicule , is that which is directed to mortify vanity , and to expose affectation ; but vanity and affectation , in their most exorbitant and studied excesses , are the ruling principles of society , only in ...
... manners . The most pungent ridicule , is that which is directed to mortify vanity , and to expose affectation ; but vanity and affectation , in their most exorbitant and studied excesses , are the ruling principles of society , only in ...
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... manner ! The one gives fair - play to nature and his own genius , while the other trusts almost entirely to imitation and custom . Shakspeare takes his groundwork in individual character and the manners of his age , and raises from them ...
... manner ! The one gives fair - play to nature and his own genius , while the other trusts almost entirely to imitation and custom . Shakspeare takes his groundwork in individual character and the manners of his age , and raises from them ...
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... manner , in which the thoughts are inlaid in a costly but imperfect mosaic - work . ' I long to talk with some old lover's ghost , Who died before the God of Love was born : I cannot think that he , who then lov'd most , Sunk so low ...
... manner , in which the thoughts are inlaid in a costly but imperfect mosaic - work . ' I long to talk with some old lover's ghost , Who died before the God of Love was born : I cannot think that he , who then lov'd most , Sunk so low ...
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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...