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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... breath we draw . It is still and calm as the face of death . Nothing can touch it in its ethereal purity : tender as the yielding flower , it is fixed as the marble firmament . The only remonstrance she makes , the only complaint she ...
... breath we draw . It is still and calm as the face of death . Nothing can touch it in its ethereal purity : tender as the yielding flower , it is fixed as the marble firmament . The only remonstrance she makes , the only complaint she ...
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... breath that under heav'n is blown . ' The love of beauty , however , and not of truth , is the moving principle of his mind ; and he is guided in his fantastic delineations by no rule but the impulse of an inexhaustible imagination . He ...
... breath that under heav'n is blown . ' The love of beauty , however , and not of truth , is the moving principle of his mind ; and he is guided in his fantastic delineations by no rule but the impulse of an inexhaustible imagination . He ...
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... breath , now raging like a torrent . The human soul is made the sport of fortune , the prey of adversity : it is stretched on the wheel of destiny , in restless ecstacy . The passions are in a state of pro- jection . Years are melted ...
... breath , now raging like a torrent . The human soul is made the sport of fortune , the prey of adversity : it is stretched on the wheel of destiny , in restless ecstacy . The passions are in a state of pro- jection . Years are melted ...
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... breathing odours . Theirs was the first delicious taste of life , and on them depended all that was to come of it . In them hung trembling all our hopes and fears . They were as yet alone in the world , in the eye of nature , wondering ...
... breathing odours . Theirs was the first delicious taste of life , and on them depended all that was to come of it . In them hung trembling all our hopes and fears . They were as yet alone in the world , in the eye of nature , wondering ...
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... breathing , like those of the living statue in the Winter's Tale . Nature in his descriptions is seen growing around us , fresh and lusty as in itself . We feel the effect of the atmosphere , its humidity or clearness , its heat or cold ...
... breathing , like those of the living statue in the Winter's Tale . Nature in his descriptions is seen growing around us , fresh and lusty as in itself . We feel the effect of the atmosphere , its humidity or clearness , its heat or cold ...
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Page 152 - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.
Page 59 - And, missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way, And oft, as if her head she bowed, Stooping through a fleecy cloud.
Page 166 - 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 6 - Never, lago. Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the Propontic and the Hellespont ; Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace, Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love. Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up. — Now, by yond marble heaven, In the due reverence of a sacred vow {Kneels, I here engage my words.
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 137 - The black'ning trains o' craws to their repose : The toil-worn cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend, And weary o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; Th' expectant wee-things, toddlin, stacher through To meet their dad, wi' flichterin noise an
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.