The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Lectures on the English poets and on the dramatic literature of the age of Elizabeth, etcJ. M. Dent & Company, 1902 - English essays |
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... friends , of good name , of country he is even without God in the world . He converses only with the spirits of the departed ; with the motionless and silent clouds . The cold moonlight sheds its faint lustre on his head ; the fox peeps ...
... friends , of good name , of country he is even without God in the world . He converses only with the spirits of the departed ; with the motionless and silent clouds . The cold moonlight sheds its faint lustre on his head ; the fox peeps ...
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... friends meant to enwrap ; For whom he could not kill he practiz'd to entrap . Next him was Fear , all arm'd from top to toe , Yet thought himselfe not safe enough thereby , But fear'd each shadow moving to and fro ; And his own arms ...
... friends meant to enwrap ; For whom he could not kill he practiz'd to entrap . Next him was Fear , all arm'd from top to toe , Yet thought himselfe not safe enough thereby , But fear'd each shadow moving to and fro ; And his own arms ...
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... friends here at home , and not less to an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me , that by labour and intense study ( which I take to be my portion in this life ) , joined with the strong propensity of nature , I might perhaps ...
... friends here at home , and not less to an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me , that by labour and intense study ( which I take to be my portion in this life ) , joined with the strong propensity of nature , I might perhaps ...
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... friend , citizen , and many others . Longinus preferred the Iliad to the Odyssey , on account of the greater number of battles it contains ; but I can neither agree to his criticism , nor assent to the present objection . It is true ...
... friend , citizen , and many others . Longinus preferred the Iliad to the Odyssey , on account of the greater number of battles it contains ; but I can neither agree to his criticism , nor assent to the present objection . It is true ...
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... friend- ship or self - love , as in his Epistles . He was not then distinguished as a poet of lofty enthusiasm , of ... friends . He was , in a word , the poet , not of nature , but of art ; and the distinc- tion between the two , as ...
... friend- ship or self - love , as in his Epistles . He was not then distinguished as a poet of lofty enthusiasm , of ... friends . He was , in a word , the poet , not of nature , but of art ; and the distinc- tion between the two , as ...
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Page 166 - Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother : They parted — ne'er to meet again ! But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining — They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs which had been rent asunder ; A dreary sea now flows between, But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been.
Page 10 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Page 82 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Page 64 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Page 314 - To his Coy Mistress Had we but world enough and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime. We would sit down and think which way To walk and pass our long love's day. Thou by the Indian Ganges' side Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide Of Huraber would complain.
Page 188 - Your face, my thane, is as a book, where men May read strange matters : — To beguile the time, Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it.
Page 114 - tis madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Page 78 - ... In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half -hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repaired with straw, With tape-tied curtains never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas ! how changed from him, That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim ! Gallant and gay, in Cliveden's proud alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love ; Or just as gay at council, in a ring...
Page 338 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.
Page 166 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.