The Collected Works of William Hazlitt, Volume 13J. M. Dent & Company, 1903 |
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Page 23
... whole charm , and puts an end to our admiration of the sublime or beautiful . Reading the finest passage in Milton's Paradise Lost in a false tone , will make it seem insipid and absurd . The cavilling at , or invidiously pointing out ...
... whole charm , and puts an end to our admiration of the sublime or beautiful . Reading the finest passage in Milton's Paradise Lost in a false tone , will make it seem insipid and absurd . The cavilling at , or invidiously pointing out ...
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... whole families in country places , to the great annoyance of their neighbours . To be struck with incongruity in whatever comes before us , does not argue great com- prehension or refinement of perception , but rather a looseness and ...
... whole families in country places , to the great annoyance of their neighbours . To be struck with incongruity in whatever comes before us , does not argue great com- prehension or refinement of perception , but rather a looseness and ...
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... whole characters in Shakspeare equal in wit and drollery to any thing upon record . Falstaff alone is an instance which , if I would , I could not get over . C He is the leviathan of all the creatures of the author's comic genius , and ...
... whole characters in Shakspeare equal in wit and drollery to any thing upon record . Falstaff alone is an instance which , if I would , I could not get over . C He is the leviathan of all the creatures of the author's comic genius , and ...
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... whole story , from the beginning to the end , is a gratuitous assumption , and the height of improbability . The author , in sustaining the weight of his plot , seems like a balance - master who supports a number of people , piled one ...
... whole story , from the beginning to the end , is a gratuitous assumption , and the height of improbability . The author , in sustaining the weight of his plot , seems like a balance - master who supports a number of people , piled one ...
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... , and as a mere passing jest , Ben Jonson would set about building a whole play upon . The directions for making love given by Truewit , the author's favourite , discover great knowledge 43 ON SHAKSPEARE AND BEN JONSON.
... , and as a mere passing jest , Ben Jonson would set about building a whole play upon . The directions for making love given by Truewit , the author's favourite , discover great knowledge 43 ON SHAKSPEARE AND BEN JONSON.
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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 24 - The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long, That it had its head bit off by its young.
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 26 - ... sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech ; in a tart irony ; in a lusty hyperbole ; in a startling metaphor ; in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a...
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 school-days' 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...
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...