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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... never saw him before . Any one dressed in the height of the fashion , or quite out of it , is equally an object of ridicule . One rich source of the ludicrous is distress with which we cannot sympathise from its absurdity or ...
... never saw him before . Any one dressed in the height of the fashion , or quite out of it , is equally an object of ridicule . One rich source of the ludicrous is distress with which we cannot sympathise from its absurdity or ...
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... never preached . We see the frail condition of human life , and the weakness of the human understand- ing in Shallow's reflections on it ; who , while the past is sliding from beneath his feet , still clings to the present . The meanest ...
... never preached . We see the frail condition of human life , and the weakness of the human understand- ing in Shallow's reflections on it ; who , while the past is sliding from beneath his feet , still clings to the present . The meanest ...
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... never high but of the highest things , for the beauty and pathos , as well as generous frankness of the sentiments , coming , as they did , from a determined and incorruptible political foe . Shadwell was a successful and voluminous ...
... never high but of the highest things , for the beauty and pathos , as well as generous frankness of the sentiments , coming , as they did , from a determined and incorruptible political foe . Shadwell was a successful and voluminous ...
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... never trespasses on modesty , though it sometimes ( laughing ) threatens to do so ! Suckling's Letters are full of habitual gaiety and good sense . His Discourse on Reason in Religion is well enough meant . Though he excelled in the ...
... never trespasses on modesty , though it sometimes ( laughing ) threatens to do so ! Suckling's Letters are full of habitual gaiety and good sense . His Discourse on Reason in Religion is well enough meant . Though he excelled in the ...
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... never valued fortune , but as it was subservient to my pleasure ; and my only pleasure was to please this lady , ' - are alike admirable . The peremptory bluntness and exaggerated descriptions of Sir Sampson Legend are in a vein truly ...
... never valued fortune , but as it was subservient to my pleasure ; and my only pleasure was to please this lady , ' - are alike admirable . The peremptory bluntness and exaggerated descriptions of Sir Sampson Legend are in a vein truly ...
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Seite 512 - Shakspeare, that, take him for all in all, we shall not look upon his like again.
Seite 210 - O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From this world-wearied flesh.
Seite 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.
Seite 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?
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 471 - Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven As make the angels weep.
Seite 276 - All schooldays' 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, voices, and minds Had been incorporate. So we grew together Like to a double cherry, seeming parted But yet an union in partition...
Seite 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...
Seite 16 - The sun had long since, in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap, And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn...