The plain speaker: opinions on books, men, and things [by W. Hazlitt]. By W. Hazlitt, ed. by his son, Том 11851 |
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... delight to the beholders ; but like those " feathered , two- legged things , " when they light upon the ground of prose and matter - of - fact , they seem not to have the same use of their feet . What is a little extraordinary , there ...
... delight to the beholders ; but like those " feathered , two- legged things , " when they light upon the ground of prose and matter - of - fact , they seem not to have the same use of their feet . What is a little extraordinary , there ...
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... delight in endless lays . " Not so the prose - writer , who always mingles clay with his gold , and often separates truth from mere pleasure . He can only arrive at the last through the first . In poetry , one pleasing or striking image ...
... delight in endless lays . " Not so the prose - writer , who always mingles clay with his gold , and often separates truth from mere pleasure . He can only arrive at the last through the first . In poetry , one pleasing or striking image ...
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... delighted in a labyrinth of words , like a truant schoolboy , who is only glad to have escaped from his task . He has a very slight hold of his subject , and is tempted to let it go for any fallacious ornament of style . How obscure and ...
... delighted in a labyrinth of words , like a truant schoolboy , who is only glad to have escaped from his task . He has a very slight hold of his subject , and is tempted to let it go for any fallacious ornament of style . How obscure and ...
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... delights to dwell upon it , to however little use . So he is glad to take advan- tage of the scriptural idea of a gourd ; not to enforce , but as a relief to his reflections ; and points his conclusion with a puling sort of common ...
... delights to dwell upon it , to however little use . So he is glad to take advan- tage of the scriptural idea of a gourd ; not to enforce , but as a relief to his reflections ; and points his conclusion with a puling sort of common ...
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... delight in pictures , he endeavours , not by fair argument , but by a side- wind , to put you out of conceit with so frivolous an art . If you have a taste for music , he does not think much good is to be done by this tickling ON THE ...
... delight in pictures , he endeavours , not by fair argument , but by a side- wind , to put you out of conceit with so frivolous an art . If you have a taste for music , he does not think much good is to be done by this tickling ON THE ...
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Стр. 220 - Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues.
Стр. 120 - For time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And, with his arms outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer: welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing.
Стр. 15 - British monarchy, not more limited than fenced by the orders of the state, shall, like the proud keep of Windsor, rising in the majesty of proportion, and girt with the double belt of its kindred and coeval towers...
Стр. 358 - The quality of mercy is not strained'; It droppeth as the gentle dew from heaven Upon the place beneath* : it is twice blessed* ; It blesseth him that gives', and him that takes*.
Стр. 203 - I ever looked on Lord Keppel as one of the greatest and best men of his age ; and I loved, and cultivated him accordingly. He was much in my heart, and I believe I was in his to the very last beat.
Стр. 120 - Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright. To have done is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mock'ry.
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Стр. 111 - The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion ; the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colors and their forms were then to me An appetite: a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Стр. 15 - As long as our Sovereign Lord the King, and his faithful subjects, the Lords and Commons of this realm — the triple cord which no man can break; the solemn, sworn, constitutional frank-pledge of this nation; the firm guarantees of each other's being, and each other's rights; the joint and several securities, each in its place and order, for every kind, and every quality of property and of dignity...
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