The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Lectures on the English comic writers. A view of the English stage. Dramatic essays from 'The London magazine.'J. M. Dent & Company, 1903 |
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... truth of absurdity to itself . That reason and good sense should be con- sistent , is not wonderful : but that caprice , and whim , and fantastical prejudice , should be uniform and infallible in their results , is the surprising thing ...
... truth of absurdity to itself . That reason and good sense should be con- sistent , is not wonderful : but that caprice , and whim , and fantastical prejudice , should be uniform and infallible in their results , is the surprising thing ...
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... truth of the character , and in the happy exposure of the ludicrous contradiction between the pretext and the practice ; between their lenity towards their own vices , and their severity to those of others . The same principle of nice ...
... truth of the character , and in the happy exposure of the ludicrous contradiction between the pretext and the practice ; between their lenity towards their own vices , and their severity to those of others . The same principle of nice ...
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... truth ( if truth it were ) by a fortuitous concourse of letters of the alphabet , jumping in a foregone conclusion , ' but there was no proof of the thing , unless it was self - evident . And , indeed , this may be considered as the ...
... truth ( if truth it were ) by a fortuitous concourse of letters of the alphabet , jumping in a foregone conclusion , ' but there was no proof of the thing , unless it was self - evident . And , indeed , this may be considered as the ...
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... Truth makes the greatest libel ; and it is that which barbs the darts of wit . The Duke of Buckingham's saying , ' Laws are not , like women , the worse for being old , ' is an instance of a harmless truism and the utmost malice of wit ...
... Truth makes the greatest libel ; and it is that which barbs the darts of wit . The Duke of Buckingham's saying , ' Laws are not , like women , the worse for being old , ' is an instance of a harmless truism and the utmost malice of wit ...
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... truth they convey is a mere dry observation on human life , without elevation or enthusiasm , and the illustration of it is of that quaint and familiar kind that is merely curious and fanciful . Cowley is an instance of the same kind in ...
... truth they convey is a mere dry observation on human life , without elevation or enthusiasm , and the illustration of it is of that quaint and familiar kind that is merely curious and fanciful . Cowley is an instance of the same kind in ...
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Page 182 - O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From this world-wearied flesh.
Page 179 - I have liv'd long enough : my way of life Is fallen into the sear, the yellow leaf : And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses not loud, but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Page 47 - Why so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale?
Page 386 - 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.
Page 48 - Her lips were red; and one was thin Compared to that was next her chin, Some bee had stung it newly: But, Dick, her eyes so guard her face, I durst no more upon them gaze Than on the sun in July.
Page 385 - Tom? whom the foul fiend hath led through fire and through flame, through ford and whirlpool, o'er bog and quagmire; that hath laid knives under his pillow, and halters in his pew...
Page 407 - Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven As make the angels weep.
Page 239 - All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence ? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key ; As if our hands, our sides...
Page 384 - No, you unnatural hags, I will have such revenges on you both, That all the world shall — I will do such things — What they are yet I know not ; but they shall be The terrors of the earth.
Page 15 - Wit lying most in the assemblage of Ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant Pictures, and agreeable Visions in the fancy...