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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... pretensions . It rests upon the simple process of feeling , it anchors in experience . It is not , nor it cannot be , the test of abstract , speculative opinions . But half the opinions and prejudices of mankind , those which they hold ...
... pretensions . It rests upon the simple process of feeling , it anchors in experience . It is not , nor it cannot be , the test of abstract , speculative opinions . But half the opinions and prejudices of mankind , those which they hold ...
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... pretensions of his own . His genius consisted in the faculty of transforming himself at will into whatever he chose : his originality was the power of seeing every object from the exact point of view in which others would see it . He ...
... pretensions of his own . His genius consisted in the faculty of transforming himself at will into whatever he chose : his originality was the power of seeing every object from the exact point of view in which others would see it . He ...
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... pretensions than from an absolute poverty of resources . I have given instances of this elsewhere . Perhaps Shakespear's tragedies would in some respects have been better , if he had never written comedies at all ; and in that case ...
... pretensions than from an absolute poverty of resources . I have given instances of this elsewhere . Perhaps Shakespear's tragedies would in some respects have been better , if he had never written comedies at all ; and in that case ...
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... pretensions to be always dragging them forward into the fore - ground , as if the proverb held here - Out of sight out of mind . Does he , for instance , conceive that no one would ever think of his poetry , unless he forced it upon ...
... pretensions to be always dragging them forward into the fore - ground , as if the proverb held here - Out of sight out of mind . Does he , for instance , conceive that no one would ever think of his poetry , unless he forced it upon ...
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... pretensions ; are less impli- cated in theories ; and judge of objects more from their immediate and involuntary impression on the mind , and , therefore , more truly and naturally . They cannot reason wrong ; for they do not reason at ...
... pretensions ; are less impli- cated in theories ; and judge of objects more from their immediate and involuntary impression on the mind , and , therefore , more truly and naturally . They cannot reason wrong ; for they do not reason at ...
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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.