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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... fancy , and an over - match even for the delusions of our self - love . One part of a picture shames another , and you determine to paint up to yourself , if you cannot come up to nature . Every object becomes lustrous from the light ...
... fancy , and an over - match even for the delusions of our self - love . One part of a picture shames another , and you determine to paint up to yourself , if you cannot come up to nature . Every object becomes lustrous from the light ...
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... fancy ere I saw the picture . There were two portraits by the same hand - A young Nobleman with a glove ' -Another , a companion to it ' - I read the description over and over with fond expectancy , and filled up the imaginary outline ...
... fancy ere I saw the picture . There were two portraits by the same hand - A young Nobleman with a glove ' -Another , a companion to it ' - I read the description over and over with fond expectancy , and filled up the imaginary outline ...
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... fancy to those suns and skies so pure ' that lighted up my early path ? Is it to think of nothing , to set an idle value upon nothing , to think of all that has happened to me , and of all that can ever interest me ? Or , to use the ...
... fancy to those suns and skies so pure ' that lighted up my early path ? Is it to think of nothing , to set an idle value upon nothing , to think of all that has happened to me , and of all that can ever interest me ? Or , to use the ...
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... fancy that strewed his earliest years . When he begins the last of the Reveries of a Solitary Walker , Il y a aujourd'hui , jour des Pâques Fleuris , cinquante ans depuis que j'ai premier vu Madame Warens , ' what a yearning of the soul ...
... fancy that strewed his earliest years . When he begins the last of the Reveries of a Solitary Walker , Il y a aujourd'hui , jour des Pâques Fleuris , cinquante ans depuis que j'ai premier vu Madame Warens , ' what a yearning of the soul ...
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... fancy , and yet what canvas would be big enough to hold its striking groups , its endless subjects ! It is light as vanity , and yet if all its weary moments , if all its head and heart aches were com- pressed into one , what fortitude ...
... fancy , and yet what canvas would be big enough to hold its striking groups , its endless subjects ! It is light as vanity , and yet if all its weary moments , if all its head and heart aches were com- pressed into one , what fortitude ...
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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.