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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... THE ENGLISH POETS LECTURES ON THE DRAMATIC LITERATURE OF PAGE I THE AGE OF ELIZABETH 169 PREFACE AND CRITICAL LIST OF AUTHORS FROM SELECT BRITISH POETS 365 NOTES 381 LECTURES ON THE ENGLISH POETS BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE The Lectures on.
... THE ENGLISH POETS LECTURES ON THE DRAMATIC LITERATURE OF PAGE I THE AGE OF ELIZABETH 169 PREFACE AND CRITICAL LIST OF AUTHORS FROM SELECT BRITISH POETS 365 NOTES 381 LECTURES ON THE ENGLISH POETS BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE The Lectures on.
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... poet in fact , when he first plays at hide - and - seek , or repeats the story of Jack the Giant - killer ; the shepherd - boy is a poet , when he first crowns his mistress with a garland of flowers ; the countryman , when he stops to ...
... poet in fact , when he first plays at hide - and - seek , or repeats the story of Jack the Giant - killer ; the shepherd - boy is a poet , when he first crowns his mistress with a garland of flowers ; the countryman , when he stops to ...
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... poet ? Plato banished the poets from his Common- wealth , lest their descriptions of the natural man should spoil his mathematical man , who was to be without passions and affections , who was neither to laugh nor weep , to feel sorrow ...
... poet ? Plato banished the poets from his Common- wealth , lest their descriptions of the natural man should spoil his mathematical man , who was to be without passions and affections , who was neither to laugh nor weep , to feel sorrow ...
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... poet , speaks of the auburn tresses of his mistress as locks of shining gold , because the least tinge of yellow in the hair has , from novelty and a sense of personal beauty , a more lustrous effect to the imagination than the purest ...
... poet , speaks of the auburn tresses of his mistress as locks of shining gold , because the least tinge of yellow in the hair has , from novelty and a sense of personal beauty , a more lustrous effect to the imagination than the purest ...
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... poet to describe the most striking and vivid impressions which things can be supposed to make upon the mind , in the language of common conversation . Let who will strip nature of the colours and the shapes of fancy , the poet is not ...
... poet to describe the most striking and vivid impressions which things can be supposed to make upon the mind , in the language of common conversation . Let who will strip nature of the colours and the shapes of fancy , the poet is not ...
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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.