The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: The Round table. Characters of Shakespear's plays. A letter to William Gifford, esqJ. M. Dent & Company, 1902 |
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... shew that the strength of our attachment to it is a very fallacious test of its happiness . W. H. No. 2. ] ON CLASSICAL EDUCATION [ FEB . 12 , 1815 . THE study of the Classics is less to be regarded as an exercise of the intellect ...
... shew that the strength of our attachment to it is a very fallacious test of its happiness . W. H. No. 2. ] ON CLASSICAL EDUCATION [ FEB . 12 , 1815 . THE study of the Classics is less to be regarded as an exercise of the intellect ...
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... shew how much Hogarth excelled in the power of giving soft and effeminate expression . They have , however , been less noticed than the other figures , which tell a plainer story and convey a more palpable moral . Nothing can be more ...
... shew how much Hogarth excelled in the power of giving soft and effeminate expression . They have , however , been less noticed than the other figures , which tell a plainer story and convey a more palpable moral . Nothing can be more ...
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... shew the deepest insight into human nature , and into the effects of those refinements in depravity by which it has been good - naturedly asserted , that ' vice loses half its evil in losing all its grossness . ' The story of this ...
... shew the deepest insight into human nature , and into the effects of those refinements in depravity by which it has been good - naturedly asserted , that ' vice loses half its evil in losing all its grossness . ' The story of this ...
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... shews the strength of his genius ; so much art would have overloaded any other writer . Milton's learning has all the effect of intuition . He describes objects of which he had only read in books , with the vividness of actual ...
... shews the strength of his genius ; so much art would have overloaded any other writer . Milton's learning has all the effect of intuition . He describes objects of which he had only read in books , with the vividness of actual ...
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... shews great pride or little sense .'- / . 386 , 7 . ' Be silent always , when you doubt your sense , And speak , though sure , with seeming diffidence .'- 1 . 566 , 7 . ' Be niggards of advice on no pretence , For the worst avarice is ...
... shews great pride or little sense .'- / . 386 , 7 . ' Be silent always , when you doubt your sense , And speak , though sure , with seeming diffidence .'- 1 . 566 , 7 . ' Be niggards of advice on no pretence , For the worst avarice is ...
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actor admiration affections answer appears beauty Beggar's Opera Ben Jonson better Cæsar Caliban character Claudio comedy comic common contempt Coriolanus critic CYMBELINE death delight Desdemona doth English equal excited eyes Falstaff fame fancy fear feelings folly fool friends genius give grace habit hath Hazlitt heart heaven honour Hubert human Iago idea imagination indifference instance interest Julius Cæsar king lady Lear live look lord Macbeth Malvolio manner means Midsummer Night's Dream mind mistress moral nature never objects opinion Othello pain painted painter Paradise Lost passages passion persons picture play pleasure poet poetry prejudices Prince principle reason refined Richard II Round Table scene seems sense sentiment Shakespear shew soul speak spirit style sweet sympathy taste Tatler thee things thou art thought tion Titian Titus Andronicus true truth whole WILLIAM GIFFORD William Hazlitt words writer
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Página 294 - For within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court: and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state, and grinning at his pomp...
Página 293 - Let's choose executors and talk of wills : And yet not so — for what can we bequeath Save our deposed bodies to the ground? Our lands, our lives, and all are Bolingbroke's, And nothing can we call our own but death, And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
Página 267 - And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind. Methinks I should know you and know this man; Yet I am doubtful; for I am mainly ignorant What place this is, and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments; nor I know not Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me; For, as I am a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia.
Página 233 - Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what is mortal, and unsure To all that fortune, death and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell.
Página 307 - I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is?
Página 220 - And make a sop of all this solid globe: Strength should be lord of imbecility, And the rude son should strike his father dead: Force should be right; or rather, right and wrong, Between whose endless jar justice resides, Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then...
Página 220 - Which is the ladder to all high designs, The enterprise is sick. How could communities, Degrees in schools, and brotherhoods in cities, Peaceful commerce from dividable shores, The primogenitive and due of birth, Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels, But by degree, stand in authentic place ? Take but degree away, untune that string, And hark, what discord follows...
Página 33 - Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe and pale jessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freaked with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose, and the well-attired woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears ; Bid Amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffadillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.
Página 174 - Dis's waggon! daffodils That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath...
Página 320 - A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it...