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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... never the better , and generally the worse , from the habit of writing verse . Poets are winged animals , and can cleave the air , like birds , with ease to themselves and delight to the beholders ; but like those " feathered , two ...
... never the better , and generally the worse , from the habit of writing verse . Poets are winged animals , and can cleave the air , like birds , with ease to themselves and delight to the beholders ; but like those " feathered , two ...
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... never drift with the current , but is always hoisting sail , and has his streamers flying . He has got a striking simile on hand ; he lugs it in with the first opportunity , and with little connexion , and so defeats his object . He has ...
... never drift with the current , but is always hoisting sail , and has his streamers flying . He has got a striking simile on hand ; he lugs it in with the first opportunity , and with little connexion , and so defeats his object . He has ...
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... never fell over , was Burke's . It has the solidity and sparkling effect of the diamond : all other fine writing is like French paste or Bristol stones in the comparison . Burke's style is airy , flighty , adventurous , but it never ...
... never fell over , was Burke's . It has the solidity and sparkling effect of the diamond : all other fine writing is like French paste or Bristol stones in the comparison . Burke's style is airy , flighty , adventurous , but it never ...
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... never pass Windsor but I think of this passage in Burke , and hardly know to which I am indebted most for enriching my moral sense , that or the fine picturesque stanza in Gray , " From Windsor's heights the expanse below Of mead , of ...
... never pass Windsor but I think of this passage in Burke , and hardly know to which I am indebted most for enriching my moral sense , that or the fine picturesque stanza in Gray , " From Windsor's heights the expanse below Of mead , of ...
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... continuity , we often forget our dreams so speedily : if we cannot catch them as they are passing out at the door , we never set eyes on them again . There is no clue or thread D of imagination to trace them by . In a morning ON DREAMS .
... continuity , we often forget our dreams so speedily : if we cannot catch them as they are passing out at the door , we never set eyes on them again . There is no clue or thread D of imagination to trace them by . In a morning ON DREAMS .
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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.
Стр. 311 - And time and place are lost: where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal Anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand. For Hot, Cold, Moist, and Dry, four champions fierce Strive here for mastery...
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...
Стр. 63 - On one occasion, he was for making out a list of persons famous in history that one would wish to see again — at the head of whom were Pontius Pilate, Sir Thomas Browne, and Dr. Faustus — but we black-balled most of his list ! But with what a gusto would he describe his favourite authors, Donne, or Sir Philip Sidney, and call their most crabbed passages...