William Hazlitt, Essayist and Critic: Selections from His Writings, with a Memoir, Biographical and CriticalF. Warne and Company, 1889 - 510 páginas |
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... observation of character . " Mrs. Barton asked us , as if she were afraid we would accept her invita- tion , if we would stay to tea . . . . I had rather one would tell one to go out of the house than ask one to stay , and at the same ...
... observation of character . " Mrs. Barton asked us , as if she were afraid we would accept her invita- tion , if we would stay to tea . . . . I had rather one would tell one to go out of the house than ask one to stay , and at the same ...
Página xxv
... observation , and deserve a place in the literature of the earlier portion of this century . They possess all the ease and unstudied variety of conversation . In 1817 Hazlitt gave to the world his Characters of Shakespeare's Plays ...
... observation , and deserve a place in the literature of the earlier portion of this century . They possess all the ease and unstudied variety of conversation . In 1817 Hazlitt gave to the world his Characters of Shakespeare's Plays ...
Página xxvi
... observing that ' she had written a great deal which he had never read , ' a voice gave expression to the general commiseration and surprise by calling out , ' More pity for you ! ' They were confounded at his reading , with more ...
... observing that ' she had written a great deal which he had never read , ' a voice gave expression to the general commiseration and surprise by calling out , ' More pity for you ! ' They were confounded at his reading , with more ...
Página xxix
... observation , which makes it perhaps one of the best and most unexceptionable of his compositions . He shows that the general causes of that sudden and rich development of poetical feeling and of intellectual activity were mainly the ...
... observation , which makes it perhaps one of the best and most unexceptionable of his compositions . He shows that the general causes of that sudden and rich development of poetical feeling and of intellectual activity were mainly the ...
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... observing very little how their tempers were likely to harmonise . . . . I believe that Mr. Hazlitt was physically incapable of giving his affections to a single object . His wife had not much pretence for quarrelling with him on the ...
... observing very little how their tempers were likely to harmonise . . . . I believe that Mr. Hazlitt was physically incapable of giving his affections to a single object . His wife had not much pretence for quarrelling with him on the ...
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Página 119 - 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?
Página 68 - Stop up th' access and passage to remorse; That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect and it!
Página 117 - Memory and her syren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out His seraphim, with the hallowed fire of His altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases.
Página 224 - I have not loved the world, nor the world me; I have not flatter'd its rank breath, nor bow'd To its idolatries a patient knee, Nor coin'd my cheek to smiles, nor cried aloud In worship of an echo; in the crowd They could not deem me one of such; I stood Among them, but not of them; in a shroud Of thoughts which were not their thoughts and still could, Had I not filed my mind, which thus itself subdued.
Página 68 - The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!
Página 33 - O, how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her votary yields ! The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields ; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, » And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of Heaven...
Página 164 - Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good : Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
Página 393 - The Devil was sick, the Devil a monk would be : The Devil grew well, the Devil a monk was he...
Página 452 - It is the first mild day of March: Each minute sweeter than before, The red-breast sings from the tall larch That stands beside our door. There is a blessing in the air, Which seems a sense of joy to yield To the bare trees, and mountains bare, And grass in the green field.
Página 82 - It ascends me into the brain ; dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapours which environ it ; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble fiery and delectable shapes; which, delivered o'er to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit.