The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Table talk and Conversations of James Northcote, esq., R.AJ. M. Dent & Company, 1903 - English essays |
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... Pleasure of Painting " and " On the Ignorance of the Learned , " in this Volume , have already appeared in periodical publications . ' The second volume contained a list of ' errata . ' The second edition appeared in 1824 in two 8vo ...
... Pleasure of Painting " and " On the Ignorance of the Learned , " in this Volume , have already appeared in periodical publications . ' The second volume contained a list of ' errata . ' The second edition appeared in 1824 in two 8vo ...
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William Hazlitt Alfred Rayney Waller, Arnold Glover. CONTENTS On the Pleasure of Painting ESSAY I. PAGE 5 · ESSAY II . The same Subject continued 13 On the Past and Future ESSAY III . ESSAY IV . 21 On Genius and Common Sense 31 ESSAY V ...
William Hazlitt Alfred Rayney Waller, Arnold Glover. CONTENTS On the Pleasure of Painting ESSAY I. PAGE 5 · ESSAY II . The same Subject continued 13 On the Past and Future ESSAY III . ESSAY IV . 21 On Genius and Common Sense 31 ESSAY V ...
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... . ESSAY XXX . ESSAY XXXI . On the Knowledge of Character On the Picturesque and Ideal • · ESSAY XXXII . On the Fear of Death ESSAY XXXIII . • 272 · 279 · 289 303 • 317 • 321 X F TABLE TALK ESSAY I ON THE PLEASURE OF PAINTING 4 TABLE TALK.
... . ESSAY XXX . ESSAY XXXI . On the Knowledge of Character On the Picturesque and Ideal • · ESSAY XXXII . On the Fear of Death ESSAY XXXIII . • 272 · 279 · 289 303 • 317 • 321 X F TABLE TALK ESSAY I ON THE PLEASURE OF PAINTING 4 TABLE TALK.
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... PLEASURE OF PAINTING " THERE is a pleasure in painting which none but painters know . ' In writing , you have to contend with the world ; in painting , you have only to carry on a friendly strife with Nature . You sit down to your task ...
... PLEASURE OF PAINTING " THERE is a pleasure in painting which none but painters know . ' In writing , you have to contend with the world ; in painting , you have only to carry on a friendly strife with Nature . You sit down to your task ...
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... pleasure in writing these Essays , or in reading them afterwards ; though I own I now and then meet with a phrase that I like , or a thought that strikes me as a true one . But after I begin them , I am only anxious to get to the end of ...
... pleasure in writing these Essays , or in reading them afterwards ; though I own I now and then meet with a phrase that I like , or a thought that strikes me as a true one . But after I begin them , I am only anxious to get to the end of ...
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Page 97 - 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.
Page 177 - Purification in the old law did save, And such, as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind. Her face was...
Page 121 - Nay, take my life and all; pardon not that. You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house ; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
Page 97 - I have not loved the world, nor the world me, But let us part fair foes; I do believe, Though I have found them not, that there may be Words which are things, hopes which will not deceive, And virtues which are merciful, nor weave Snares for the failing; I would also deem O'er others...
Page 176 - God's trophies, and his work pursued, While Darwen stream, with blood of Scots imbrued, And Dunbar field, resounds thy praises loud, And Worcester's laureate wreath...
Page 176 - ... stocks and stones, Forget not : in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks.
Page 28 - O God ! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain ; J To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to...
Page 28 - God! methinks, it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run: How many make the hour full complete, How many hours bring about the day, How many days will finish up the year, How many years a mortal man may live.
Page 176 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Page 173 - From you have I been absent in the spring, When proud-pied April dress'd in all his trim Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing, That heavy Saturn laugh'd and leap'd with him. Yet nor the lays of birds nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue Could make me any summer's story tell, Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew ; Nor did I wonder at the...