The Collected Works of William Hazlitt, Volume 13J. M. Dent & Company, 1903 |
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... performance , Mr. Emery's Robert Tyke . Again , unconsciousness in the person himself of what he is about , or of what others think of him , is also a great heightener of the sense of absurdity . It makes it come the fuller home upon us ...
... performance , Mr. Emery's Robert Tyke . Again , unconsciousness in the person himself of what he is about , or of what others think of him , is also a great heightener of the sense of absurdity . It makes it come the fuller home upon us ...
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... performance an humble foil to another's . Wit hovers round the borders of the light and trifling , whether in matters of pleasure or pain ; for as soon as it describes the serious seriously , it ceases to be wit , and passes into a ...
... performance an humble foil to another's . Wit hovers round the borders of the light and trifling , whether in matters of pleasure or pain ; for as soon as it describes the serious seriously , it ceases to be wit , and passes into a ...
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... performance a fresh- ness and purity like the first breath of morning . Its sportive irony never trespasses on modesty , though it sometimes ( laughing ) threatens to do so ! Suckling's Letters are full of habitual gaiety and good His ...
... performance a fresh- ness and purity like the first breath of morning . Its sportive irony never trespasses on modesty , though it sometimes ( laughing ) threatens to do so ! Suckling's Letters are full of habitual gaiety and good His ...
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... performance . It is an essence almost too fine ; and the sense of pleasure evaporates in an aspiration after something that seems too exquisite ever to have been realised . After inhaling the spirit of Congreve's wit , and tasting ...
... performance . It is an essence almost too fine ; and the sense of pleasure evaporates in an aspiration after something that seems too exquisite ever to have been realised . After inhaling the spirit of Congreve's wit , and tasting ...
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... performance of the whole duty of man ; and seems fully convinced , that if this nuisance were abated , the whole world would be regulated according to the creed and the catechism . This is a strange blindness and infatuation ! He ...
... performance of the whole duty of man ; and seems fully convinced , that if this nuisance were abated , the whole world would be regulated according to the creed and the catechism . This is a strange blindness and infatuation ! He ...
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Page 210 - O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From this world-wearied flesh.
Page 207 - 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 55 - 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 24 - The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long, That it had its head bit off by its young.
Page 450 - 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 449 - 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 26 - ... sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech ; in a tart irony ; in a lusty hyperbole ; in a startling metaphor ; in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a...
Page 471 - Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven As make the angels weep.
Page 276 - 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 19 - 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...