Hazlitt on English Literature: An Introduction to the Appreciation of LiteratureOxford University Press, 1913 - 441 Seiten |
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... true that an ingenious person may take advantage of the elusive nature of language to play tricks with the ordinary understanding , but it is equally true that words of themselves have a way of im- posing on the uninquiring mind and ...
... true that an ingenious person may take advantage of the elusive nature of language to play tricks with the ordinary understanding , but it is equally true that words of themselves have a way of im- posing on the uninquiring mind and ...
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... true , as his generous biographer suggests , that " his politics and his feud with many of these men was an affair of ignorance and accidental associations in Edin- burgh , " that under different circumstances " he might have been found ...
... true , as his generous biographer suggests , that " his politics and his feud with many of these men was an affair of ignorance and accidental associations in Edin- burgh , " that under different circumstances " he might have been found ...
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... true that he treated their motives hastily and unjustly , but none of his opponents set him the example of charity . In the earlier years of their acquaintance Coleridge had spoken of Hazlitt as a " think- ing , observant , original man ...
... true that he treated their motives hastily and unjustly , but none of his opponents set him the example of charity . In the earlier years of their acquaintance Coleridge had spoken of Hazlitt as a " think- ing , observant , original man ...
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... true of his humor . He relished heartily its appearance in others and had a most wholesome laugh ; but in himself there is no real merriment , only an ironic realization of the contrasts of life . When he writes , the smile which ...
... true of his humor . He relished heartily its appearance in others and had a most wholesome laugh ; but in himself there is no real merriment , only an ironic realization of the contrasts of life . When he writes , the smile which ...
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... true application of the method . Gibbon did it in a passage which impressed itself upon the younger critics . of Hazlitt's generation . " I was acquainted only with two ways of criticising a beautiful passage : the one , to shew , by an ...
... true application of the method . Gibbon did it in a passage which impressed itself upon the younger critics . of Hazlitt's generation . " I was acquainted only with two ways of criticising a beautiful passage : the one , to shew , by an ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 23 - To th' instruments divine respondence meet; The silver sounding instruments did meet With the base murmure of the waters fall; The waters fall with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call; The gentle warbling wind low answered to all.
Seite 124 - Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Seite 127 - He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
Seite 111 - 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?
Seite 130 - ... In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half -hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repaired with straw, With tape-tied curtains never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas ! how changed from him, That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim ! Gallant and gay, in Cliveden's proud alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love ; Or just as gay at council, in a ring...
Seite 70 - I have lived long enough : my way of life Is fall'n 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.
Seite 63 - Come, you spirits That tend on mortal* thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty ! make thick my blood, Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose...
Seite 66 - tis later, sir. Ban. Hold, take my sword. There's husbandry in heaven, Their candles are all out. Take thee that too. A heavy summons lies like lead upon me, And yet I would not sleep. Merciful powers, Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature Gives way to in repose!
Seite 107 - With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Seite 108 - As bees In spring time, when the sun with Taurus rides, Pour forth their populous youth about the hive In clusters: they among fresh dews and flowers Fly to and fro, or on the smoothed plank, The suburb of their strawbuilt citadel, New rubb'd with balm, expatiate and confer Their state affairs.