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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... matter of no moment to think whether I have been one or the other ? Do I delude myself , do I build upon a shadow or a dream , do I dress up in the gaudy garb of idleness and folly a pure fiction , with nothing answering to it in the ...
... matter of no moment to think whether I have been one or the other ? Do I delude myself , do I build upon a shadow or a dream , do I dress up in the gaudy garb of idleness and folly a pure fiction , with nothing answering to it in the ...
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... matter , whether we regard its pleasures or its pains . To draw a peevish conclusion to the contrary from our own superannuated desires or forgetful indifference is about as reasonable as to say , a man never was young because he is ...
... matter , whether we regard its pleasures or its pains . To draw a peevish conclusion to the contrary from our own superannuated desires or forgetful indifference is about as reasonable as to say , a man never was young because he is ...
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... matter , there could be no rule given for them : nature does not follow the Orule , but suggests it . Reason is the interpreter and critic of nature and genius , not their lawgiver and judge . He must be a poor creature indeed whose ...
... matter , there could be no rule given for them : nature does not follow the Orule , but suggests it . Reason is the interpreter and critic of nature and genius , not their lawgiver and judge . He must be a poor creature indeed whose ...
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... matter is reduced to a common - place invention . This is sometimes the effect of what I mean to caution you against ; that is to say , an unfounded distrust of the imagination and feeling , in favour of narrow , partial , confined ...
... matter is reduced to a common - place invention . This is sometimes the effect of what I mean to caution you against ; that is to say , an unfounded distrust of the imagination and feeling , in favour of narrow , partial , confined ...
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... matter with him . To the flitting , shadowy , half - distinguished profile that had glided by his window was linked unconsciously and mysteriously , but inseparably , the impression of the trains that had been laid for him by this ...
... matter with him . To the flitting , shadowy , half - distinguished profile that had glided by his window was linked unconsciously and mysteriously , but inseparably , the impression of the trains that had been laid for him by this ...
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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.