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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... Spirit of Controversy , ' were added . The fourth edition ( 1857-1861 ) is a reprint or a re - issue of the third . In the fifth edition ( 1 volume 8vo , 1869 , Bell & Daldy ) , edited by Mr. William Carew Hazlitt , the text and ...
... Spirit of Controversy , ' were added . The fourth edition ( 1857-1861 ) is a reprint or a re - issue of the third . In the fifth edition ( 1 volume 8vo , 1869 , Bell & Daldy ) , edited by Mr. William Carew Hazlitt , the text and ...
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... spirit of inquiry , that influence his daily practice , to other subjects . He perceives form , he distinguishes character . He reads men and books with an intuitive eye . He is a critic as well as a connoisseur . The conclusions he ...
... spirit of inquiry , that influence his daily practice , to other subjects . He perceives form , he distinguishes character . He reads men and books with an intuitive eye . He is a critic as well as a connoisseur . The conclusions he ...
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... spirit of the artist ! Not to have been disappointed with these works afterwards , was the highest compliment I can pay to their transcendant merits . Indeed , it was from seeing other works of the same great masters that I had formed a ...
... spirit of the artist ! Not to have been disappointed with these works afterwards , was the highest compliment I can pay to their transcendant merits . Indeed , it was from seeing other works of the same great masters that I had formed a ...
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... spirit . If Whad never looked at any thing but megilps and handling , he never would have put the soul of life and manners into his pictures , as he has done . Another objection is , that the instrumental parts of the art , the means ...
... spirit . If Whad never looked at any thing but megilps and handling , he never would have put the soul of life and manners into his pictures , as he has done . Another objection is , that the instrumental parts of the art , the means ...
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... spirit for the relief , and look forward to it with pleasure all the week . Sir Joshua Reynolds was never comfortable out of his painting - room , and died of chagrin and regret , because he could not paint on to the last moment of his ...
... spirit for the relief , and look forward to it with pleasure all the week . Sir Joshua Reynolds was never comfortable out of his painting - room , and died of chagrin and regret , because he could not paint on to the last moment of his ...
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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.