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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... true or false , and on their inconsistency with certain acknowledged maxims , whether right or wrong . It is , therefore , a fair test , if not of philo- sophical or abstract truth , at least of what is truth according to public opinion ...
... true or false , and on their inconsistency with certain acknowledged maxims , whether right or wrong . It is , therefore , a fair test , if not of philo- sophical or abstract truth , at least of what is truth according to public opinion ...
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... true and false wit . Mr. Addison , indeed , goes so far as to make it the exclusive test of true wit that it will bear translation into another language , that is to say , that it does not depend at all on the form of expression . But ...
... true and false wit . Mr. Addison , indeed , goes so far as to make it the exclusive test of true wit that it will bear translation into another language , that is to say , that it does not depend at all on the form of expression . But ...
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... true analogies . A slight cause is sufficient to produce a slight effect . To be indifferent or sceptical , requires no effort ; to be enthusiastic and in earnest , requires a strong impulse , and collective power . Wit and humour ...
... true analogies . A slight cause is sufficient to produce a slight effect . To be indifferent or sceptical , requires no effort ; to be enthusiastic and in earnest , requires a strong impulse , and collective power . Wit and humour ...
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... true spirit of original genius , is , in my judgment , the masterpiece of Moliere . The set speeches in the original play , it is true , would not be borne on the English stage , nor indeed on the French , but that they are carried off ...
... true spirit of original genius , is , in my judgment , the masterpiece of Moliere . The set speeches in the original play , it is true , would not be borne on the English stage , nor indeed on the French , but that they are carried off ...
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... true and false pretensions to taste and elegance ; its lash is laid on with the utmost severity , to drive before it the common herd of knaves and fools , not to lacerate and terrify the single stragglers . In a word , it is when folly ...
... true and false pretensions to taste and elegance ; its lash is laid on with the utmost severity , to drive before it the common herd of knaves and fools , not to lacerate and terrify the single stragglers . In a word , it is when folly ...
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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...