The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive writingsJ. M. Dent & Company, 1904 - English essays |
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... effect , and we agreed to adjourn to my lodgings to discuss measures with that cordiality which makes old friends like new , and new friends like old , on great occasions . We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves , and ...
... effect , and we agreed to adjourn to my lodgings to discuss measures with that cordiality which makes old friends like new , and new friends like old , on great occasions . We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves , and ...
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... effect - such was the greater noise within ; -and when the doors were unbarred , and we got admittance , we found a party assembled in the kitchen round a good hospitable fire , some sleeping , others drinking , others talking on ...
... effect - such was the greater noise within ; -and when the doors were unbarred , and we got admittance , we found a party assembled in the kitchen round a good hospitable fire , some sleeping , others drinking , others talking on ...
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... effect of a brilliant sun on the tawny meads or moss - coloured cottages , now exulting in the fight , now digressing to some topic of general and elegant literature . My friend was dressed in character for the occasion , or like one of ...
... effect of a brilliant sun on the tawny meads or moss - coloured cottages , now exulting in the fight , now digressing to some topic of general and elegant literature . My friend was dressed in character for the occasion , or like one of ...
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... effect : those who have seen it ( at Florence , for example ) , will say that it is duller than any thing in England . Our Bartholomew- Fair is Queen Mab herself to it ! What can be duller than a parcel of masks moving about the streets ...
... effect : those who have seen it ( at Florence , for example ) , will say that it is duller than any thing in England . Our Bartholomew- Fair is Queen Mab herself to it ! What can be duller than a parcel of masks moving about the streets ...
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... effect of conversing with " the mighty dead , " and this is truly spectral , ghastly , necromantic . ' B- put it to me if I should like to see Spenser as well as Chaucer ; and I answered without hesitation , ' No ; for that his beauties ...
... effect of conversing with " the mighty dead , " and this is truly spectral , ghastly , necromantic . ' B- put it to me if I should like to see Spenser as well as Chaucer ; and I answered without hesitation , ' No ; for that his beauties ...
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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.