The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive writingsJ. M. Dent & Company, 1904 - English essays |
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... become a popular writer . Dr. Donne was mentioned as a writer of the same period , with a very interesting countenance , whose history was singular , and whose meaning was often quite as uncomeatable , without a personal citation from ...
... become a popular writer . Dr. Donne was mentioned as a writer of the same period , with a very interesting countenance , whose history was singular , and whose meaning was often quite as uncomeatable , without a personal citation from ...
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... become of him , till they were drawn to the window by the convulsive screams and peals of laughter of a young negro boy , who was rolling on the ground in an ecstacy of delight to see Garrick mimicing a turkey - cock in the court - yard ...
... become of him , till they were drawn to the window by the convulsive screams and peals of laughter of a young negro boy , who was rolling on the ground in an ecstacy of delight to see Garrick mimicing a turkey - cock in the court - yard ...
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... become obscured , from not being brought out in company and exposed to the gaze of instant admiration . A lord has always some one at hand on whom he can ' bestow his tediousness , ' and grows voluble , copious , inexhaustible in ...
... become obscured , from not being brought out in company and exposed to the gaze of instant admiration . A lord has always some one at hand on whom he can ' bestow his tediousness , ' and grows voluble , copious , inexhaustible in ...
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... become furniture , pro- perty in their hands . The purchasers look to the price they will fetch , or turn to that which they have cost . They consider not beauty or expression , but the workmanship , the date , the pedigree , the school ...
... become furniture , pro- perty in their hands . The purchasers look to the price they will fetch , or turn to that which they have cost . They consider not beauty or expression , but the workmanship , the date , the pedigree , the school ...
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... become the Monks of letters , and from having taken up learning as a profession , to live on the reputation of it . As gentlemen have turned authors , authors seem inclined to turn gentlemen ; and enjoying the otium cum dignitate , to ...
... become the Monks of letters , and from having taken up learning as a profession , to live on the reputation of it . As gentlemen have turned authors , authors seem inclined to turn gentlemen ; and enjoying the otium cum dignitate , to ...
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Page 71 - Let it pry through the portage of the head Like the brass cannon ; let the brow o'erwhelm it As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit To his full height.
Page 229 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
Page 339 - Dis's waggon! daffodils That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength...
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 47 - Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress ; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness.
Page 240 - And, having dropped th' expected bag, pass on. He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch, Cold and yet cheerful; messenger of grief Perhaps to thousands, and of joy to some, To him indifferent whether grief or joy.
Page 428 - Still green with bays each ancient altar stands Above the reach of sacrilegious hands, Secure from flames, from Envy's fiercer rage, Destructive war, and all-involving Age. See from each clime the learn'd their incense bring ! Hear in all tongues consenting paeans ring!
Page 71 - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead ! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility ; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...
Page 78 - Search then the ruling passion: there, alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.
Page 245 - Fear made her devils, and weak hope her gods; Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust, Whose attributes were rage, revenge, or lust; Such as the souls of cowards might conceive, And, form'd like tyrants, tyrants would believe.