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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... equal to the original . There was the Transfiguration too . With what awe I saw it in my mind's eye , and was overshadowed with the spirit of the artist ! Not to have been disappointed with these works afterwards , was the highest ...
... equal to the original . There was the Transfiguration too . With what awe I saw it in my mind's eye , and was overshadowed with the spirit of the artist ! Not to have been disappointed with these works afterwards , was the highest ...
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... equals . I saw him many years ago , when he treated the masterly sketches he had by him ( one in particular of the group of citizens in Shakespear ' swallowing the tailor's news ' ) as bastards of his genius , not his children ; ' and ...
... equals . I saw him many years ago , when he treated the masterly sketches he had by him ( one in particular of the group of citizens in Shakespear ' swallowing the tailor's news ' ) as bastards of his genius , not his children ; ' and ...
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... equal another.1 But the artist undertakes to imitate another , or to do what nature has done , and this it appears is more difficult , viz . to copy what she has set before us in the face of nature or human face divine , ' entire and ...
... equal another.1 But the artist undertakes to imitate another , or to do what nature has done , and this it appears is more difficult , viz . to copy what she has set before us in the face of nature or human face divine , ' entire and ...
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... equal power and skill , quickness , and judgment . He could either out - wit his an- tagonist by finesse , or beat him by main strength . Sometimes , when he seemed preparing to send the ball with the full swing of his arm , he would by ...
... equal power and skill , quickness , and judgment . He could either out - wit his an- tagonist by finesse , or beat him by main strength . Sometimes , when he seemed preparing to send the ball with the full swing of his arm , he would by ...
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... equal to another , is to be nothing he starts at the prospect of a successor , and retains the mimic sceptre with a convulsive grasp : perhaps as he is about to seize the first place which he has long had in his eye , an unsuspected ...
... equal to another , is to be nothing he starts at the prospect of a successor , and retains the mimic sceptre with a convulsive grasp : perhaps as he is about to seize the first place which he has long had in his eye , an unsuspected ...
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Page 396 - DO not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you.
Page 178 - CROMWELL, our chief of men, who through a cloud Not of war only, but detractions rude, Guided by faith and matchless fortitude, To peace and truth thy glorious way hast ploughed...
Page 179 - 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 123 - 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 393 - The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly: — Yet he that can endure To follow with allegiance a fallen lord, Does conquer him that did his master conquer, And earns a place i
Page 180 - In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature, not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
Page 39 - Merciful heaven ! What, man ? ne'er pull your hat upon your brows ; Give sorrow words : the grief, that does not speak, Whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids it break.
Page 367 - Vice thus abused, demands a nation's care ; This calls the Church to deprecate our sin, And hurls the thunder of the laws on gin. Let modest Foster, if he will, excel Ten Metropolitans in preaching well...
Page 295 - Katterfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wondering for his bread.
Page 99 - But he, his own affections' counsellor, Is to himself — I will not say, how true — • But to himself so secret and so close, So far from sounding and discovery, As is the bud bit with an envious worm, Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air, Or dedicate his beauty to the sun.