The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Table talk and Conversations of James Northcote, esq., R.AJ. M. Dent & Company, 1903 |
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18. oldal
... excellence which lies between these two extremes , -all , at least , that marks the excess above mediocrity , all that constitutes true beauty , harmony , refinement , grandeur , is lost upon the common observer . But it is from this ...
... excellence which lies between these two extremes , -all , at least , that marks the excess above mediocrity , all that constitutes true beauty , harmony , refinement , grandeur , is lost upon the common observer . But it is from this ...
30. oldal
... dwell upon the past , lest it should retard our future progress ; the indulgence of ease is fatal to excellence ; and to succeed in life , we lose the ends of being ! ESSAY IV ON GENIUS AND COMMON SENSE WE hear it 30 TABLE - TALK.
... dwell upon the past , lest it should retard our future progress ; the indulgence of ease is fatal to excellence ; and to succeed in life , we lose the ends of being ! ESSAY IV ON GENIUS AND COMMON SENSE WE hear it 30 TABLE - TALK.
42. oldal
... or fanciful exercise of the imagination , which consists in finding out some striking object or image to illustrate another . by being blind to all excellence but its own . 42 TABLE - TALK ESSAY V The same Subject continued.
... or fanciful exercise of the imagination , which consists in finding out some striking object or image to illustrate another . by being blind to all excellence but its own . 42 TABLE - TALK ESSAY V The same Subject continued.
43. oldal
William Hazlitt Alfred Rayney Waller, Arnold Glover. by being blind to all excellence but its own . It is just the reverse of the cameleon ; for it does not borrow , but lend its colour to all about it : or like the glow - worm ...
William Hazlitt Alfred Rayney Waller, Arnold Glover. by being blind to all excellence but its own . It is just the reverse of the cameleon ; for it does not borrow , but lend its colour to all about it : or like the glow - worm ...
48. oldal
... excellence , may think himself very well off . It would not be fair to complain of the style of an Encyclopedia as dull , as wanting volatile salt ; nor of the style of an Essay because it is too light and sparkling , because it is not ...
... excellence , may think himself very well off . It would not be fair to complain of the style of an Encyclopedia as dull , as wanting volatile salt ; nor of the style of an Essay because it is too light and sparkling , because it is not ...
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396. oldal - DO not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you.
178. oldal - 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...
179. oldal - 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...
123. oldal - 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.
393. oldal - 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
180. oldal - 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.
39. oldal - 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.
367. oldal - 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...
295. oldal - Katterfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wondering for his bread.
99. oldal - 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.