The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and ThingsWilliam Hazlitt, William Carew Hazlitt George Bell & sons, 1890 - 538 Seiten |
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... fancy , the illusions of his own mind , round every object , ad libitum ; the prose - writer is compelled to extract his materials patiently and hit by bit , from his subject . What he adds of ornament , what he borrows from the pencil ...
... fancy , the illusions of his own mind , round every object , ad libitum ; the prose - writer is compelled to extract his materials patiently and hit by bit , from his subject . What he adds of ornament , what he borrows from the pencil ...
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... fancy : he must take what comes , and make the most of it . He works the most striking effects out of the most unpromising materials , by the mere activity of his mind . He rises with the lofty , descends with the mean , luxuriates in ...
... fancy : he must take what comes , and make the most of it . He works the most striking effects out of the most unpromising materials , by the mere activity of his mind . He rises with the lofty , descends with the mean , luxuriates in ...
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... fancy to give out in keeping hold of the object on which it has fastened , he seems to have " put his hook in the nostrils ” of this enormous creature of the crown , that empurples all its track through the glittering expanse of a ...
... fancy to give out in keeping hold of the object on which it has fastened , he seems to have " put his hook in the nostrils ” of this enormous creature of the crown , that empurples all its track through the glittering expanse of a ...
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... fancy . Dry details , abstruse speculations do not give scope to vividness of description ; and , as they cannot bear to be considered dull , they become too often affected , extravagant , and insipid . I am indebted to Mr. Coleridge ...
... fancy . Dry details , abstruse speculations do not give scope to vividness of description ; and , as they cannot bear to be considered dull , they become too often affected , extravagant , and insipid . I am indebted to Mr. Coleridge ...
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... Fancy's endless maze . He " stoops to earth , " at least , and prostitutes his pen to some purpose ( not at the same time losing his own soul , and gaining nothing by it ) — and he vilifies Reform , and praises the reign of George III ...
... Fancy's endless maze . He " stoops to earth , " at least , and prostitutes his pen to some purpose ( not at the same time losing his own soul , and gaining nothing by it ) — and he vilifies Reform , and praises the reign of George III ...
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