The Collected Works of William Hazlitt, Volume 5J.M. Dent & Company, 1902 |
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... sort of poetry or rhetoric . We are as fond of indulging our violent passions as of reading a description of those of others . We are as prone to make a torment of our fears , as to luxuriate in our hopes of good . If it be asked , Why ...
... sort of poetry or rhetoric . We are as fond of indulging our violent passions as of reading a description of those of others . We are as prone to make a torment of our fears , as to luxuriate in our hopes of good . If it be asked , Why ...
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... sort of echo to itself to mingle the tide of verse , the golden cadences of poetry , ' with the tide of feeling , flowing and murmuring as it flows — in short , to take the language of the imagination from off the ground , and enable it ...
... sort of echo to itself to mingle the tide of verse , the golden cadences of poetry , ' with the tide of feeling , flowing and murmuring as it flows — in short , to take the language of the imagination from off the ground , and enable it ...
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... sort of blank verse or measured prose . The merchant , as described in Chaucer , went on his way sounding always the increase of his winning . ' Every prose - writer has more or less of rhythmical adaptation , except poets , who , when ...
... sort of blank verse or measured prose . The merchant , as described in Chaucer , went on his way sounding always the increase of his winning . ' Every prose - writer has more or less of rhythmical adaptation , except poets , who , when ...
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... sort of a figure would he cut , translated into an epic poem , by the side of Achilles ? Clarissa , the divine Clarissa , is too interesting by half . She is interesting in her ruffles , in her gloves , her samplers , her aunts and ...
... sort of a figure would he cut , translated into an epic poem , by the side of Achilles ? Clarissa , the divine Clarissa , is too interesting by half . She is interesting in her ruffles , in her gloves , her samplers , her aunts and ...
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... sort of tangible character belonging to them , and produce the effect of sculpture on the mind . Chaucer had an equal eye for truth of nature and discrimination of character ; and his interest in what he saw gave new distinctness and ...
... sort of tangible character belonging to them , and produce the effect of sculpture on the mind . Chaucer had an equal eye for truth of nature and discrimination of character ; and his interest in what he saw gave new distinctness and ...
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Page 166 - Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother : They parted — ne'er to meet again ! But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining — They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs which had been rent asunder ; A dreary sea now flows between, But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been.
Page 59 - And, missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way, And oft, as if her head she bowed, Stooping through a fleecy cloud.
Page 166 - Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above ; And life is thorny ; and youth is vain ; And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 73 - Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the Sun, her Eyes the Gazers strike, And, like the Sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful Ease, and Sweetness void of Pride, Might hide her Faults, if Belles had Faults to hide : If to her share some Female Errors fall, Look on her Face, and you'll forget 'em all.
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 64 - 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?
Page 188 - Your face, my thane, is as a book, where men May read strange matters : — To beguile the time, Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it.
Page 114 - tis madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Page 78 - ... 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...
Page 58 - Siren 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...