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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... matter - of - fact , they seem not to have the same use of their feet . What is a little extraordinary , there is a want of rhythmus and cadence in what they write with- out the help of metrical rules . Like persons who have been ...
... matter - of - fact , they seem not to have the same use of their feet . What is a little extraordinary , there is a want of rhythmus and cadence in what they write with- out the help of metrical rules . Like persons who have been ...
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... matter be longer or shorter , rough or smooth , round or square , different or the same . This mo- notonous and balanced mode of composition may be compared to that species of portrait - painting which prevailed about a century ago , in ...
... matter be longer or shorter , rough or smooth , round or square , different or the same . This mo- notonous and balanced mode of composition may be compared to that species of portrait - painting which prevailed about a century ago , in ...
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... matters of fact and close reasoning , the natural stimulus that at other times warms and rouses , deserts him altogether . He sees no unhallowed visions , he is inspired by no day - dreams . All is tame , literal , and barren , without ...
... matters of fact and close reasoning , the natural stimulus that at other times warms and rouses , deserts him altogether . He sees no unhallowed visions , he is inspired by no day - dreams . All is tame , literal , and barren , without ...
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... matter to the illustra- tion applied to it - the concrete and abstract are hardly co - ordinate , and therefore it is that , when the first difficulty is overcome , they must agree more closely in the essential qualities , in order that ...
... matter to the illustra- tion applied to it - the concrete and abstract are hardly co - ordinate , and therefore it is that , when the first difficulty is overcome , they must agree more closely in the essential qualities , in order that ...
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... matter and the illustration— " Like beauty making beautiful old rhyme ! " What can be more remote , for instance , and at the same time more apposite , more the same , than the following comparison of the English Constitution to the ...
... matter and the illustration— " Like beauty making beautiful old rhyme ! " What can be more remote , for instance , and at the same time more apposite , more the same , than the following comparison of the English Constitution to 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.
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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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