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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... seen in the sarcastic reply of Porson , who hearing some one observe that certain modern poets would be read and admired when Homer and Virgil were forgotten , ' made answer - And not till then ! ' Sir Robert Walpole's definition of the ...
... seen in the sarcastic reply of Porson , who hearing some one observe that certain modern poets would be read and admired when Homer and Virgil were forgotten , ' made answer - And not till then ! ' Sir Robert Walpole's definition of the ...
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... seen through that dim perspective , the difference between the great and little , the wise and foolish , is not much . ' One touch of nature makes the whole world kin : ' and old Double , though his exploits had been greater , could but ...
... seen through that dim perspective , the difference between the great and little , the wise and foolish , is not much . ' One touch of nature makes the whole world kin : ' and old Double , though his exploits had been greater , could but ...
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... seen to be despised . All beyond Hyde Park is a desart to it : ' while there the pastoral and poetic comedy begins to vegetate and flourish , unpruned , idle , and fantastic . It is hard to lay waste a country gentleman ' in a state of ...
... seen to be despised . All beyond Hyde Park is a desart to it : ' while there the pastoral and poetic comedy begins to vegetate and flourish , unpruned , idle , and fantastic . It is hard to lay waste a country gentleman ' in a state of ...
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... seen thy birth , and seen what every hour Gave to thy growth , thee to this height to raise , And now dost laugh and triumph on this bough . Little think'st thou That it will freeze anon , and that I shall To - morrow find thee fall'n ...
... seen thy birth , and seen what every hour Gave to thy growth , thee to this height to raise , And now dost laugh and triumph on this bough . Little think'st thou That it will freeze anon , and that I shall To - morrow find thee fall'n ...
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... seen , but which I have heard praised by one whose praise is never high but of the highest things , for the beauty and pathos , as well as generous frankness of the sentiments , coming , as they did , from a determined and incorruptible ...
... seen , but which I have heard praised by one whose praise is never high but of the highest things , for the beauty and pathos , as well as generous frankness of the sentiments , coming , as they did , from a determined and incorruptible ...
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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...