Literary Remains of the Late William Hazlitt: Essays: On self-love. On the conduct of life: or, Advice to a school-boy. On the fine arts. The fight. On want of money. On the feeling of immortality in youth. The main-chance. The opera. Of persons one would wish to have seen. My first acquaintance with poets. The shyness of scholars. The Vatican. On the spirit of monarchySaunders and Otley, 1836 - 315 páginas |
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Página 121
... perfect truth and delicacy , in all the varieties of motion and expression . It is fortunate that I can refer , in illustration of my doctrine , to the admirable fragment of the Theseus at Lord Elgin's , which shows ON THE FINE ARTS . 121.
... perfect truth and delicacy , in all the varieties of motion and expression . It is fortunate that I can refer , in illustration of my doctrine , to the admirable fragment of the Theseus at Lord Elgin's , which shows ON THE FINE ARTS . 121.
Página 127
... admirable . No one else , perhaps , ever gave the same harmony and roundness to his compositions . So true are his shadows , equally free from coldness , opacity , or false glare ; -so clear , so broken , so airy , and yet so deep ...
... admirable . No one else , perhaps , ever gave the same harmony and roundness to his compositions . So true are his shadows , equally free from coldness , opacity , or false glare ; -so clear , so broken , so airy , and yet so deep ...
Página 141
... admirable Spanish painters . It is difficult to characterize their peculiar excellences as distinct from those of the Italian and Dutch schools . They may be said to hold a middle rank between the painters of mind and body . They ...
... admirable Spanish painters . It is difficult to characterize their peculiar excellences as distinct from those of the Italian and Dutch schools . They may be said to hold a middle rank between the painters of mind and body . They ...
Página 154
... admirable . Nor can too much praise be given to his Shepherd Boy in a Storm , in which the unconscious simplicity of the boy's expression , looking up with his hands folded and with timid wonder ; -the noisy chattering of a magpie ...
... admirable . Nor can too much praise be given to his Shepherd Boy in a Storm , in which the unconscious simplicity of the boy's expression , looking up with his hands folded and with timid wonder ; -the noisy chattering of a magpie ...
Página 159
... admirable success ; he was an industrious compiler or skilful translator , not an original inventor , in art . The art would re- main , in all its essential elements , just where it is if Sir Joshua had never lived . He has sup- plied ...
... admirable success ; he was an industrious compiler or skilful translator , not an original inventor , in art . The art would re- main , in all its essential elements , just where it is if Sir Joshua had never lived . He has sup- plied ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
abstract action admirable affection artist beauty benevolence Brentford character Cimabue Coleridge colour common connexion Correggio Count Ugolino delight desire distinction distress Domenichino Dr Johnson Elgin Marbles equally ESSAY excellence excited expression face faculty fancy feeling fight figure Gas-man genius give grace habit hand head Helvetius Hogarth human idea imagination imitation impressions impulse individual interest Jem Belcher king Lamb live look main chance manner matter means ment Michael Angelo mind moral motives nature ness Nether Stowey never nexion object opinion ourselves pain painted painter passed passion perfection person pleasure poet portraits present pretend principle pursuit racter Raphael reason refined Rembrandt Reynolds seems self-interest self-love selfish sensation sense Sir Joshua Sir Joshua Reynolds spirit strange matters suppose sympathy taste thing thought tion Titian true truth turn vanity Whigs WILLIAM HAZLITT wish
Passagens conhecidas
Página 404 - Let it pry through the portage of the head Like the brass cannon ; let the brow o'erwhelm it As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit To his full height.
Página 212 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Página 403 - In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility : 5 But, when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...
Página 361 - A poet and a philosopher getting up into a Unitarian pulpit to preach the Gospel, was a romance in these degenerate days, a sort of revival of the primitive spirit of Christianity, which was not to be resisted.
Página 364 - ... the cold dank drops of dew, that hung half melted on the beard of the thistle, had something genial and refreshing in them ; for there was a spirit of hope and youth in all nature, that turned every thing into good.
Página 451 - Fear made her devils, and weak hope her gods; Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust, Whose attributes were rage, revenge, or lust; Such as the souls of cowards might conceive, And, form'd like tyrants, tyrants would believe.
Página 342 - Where Murray (long enough his country's pride) Shall be no more than Tully or than Hyde...
Página 217 - I never saw anything more terrific than his aspect just before he fell. All traces of life, of natural expression, were gone from him. His face was like a human skull, a death's head, spouting blood. The eyes were filled with blood, the nose streamed with blood, the mouth gaped blood. He was not like an actual man, but like a preternatural, spectral appearance, or like one of the figures in Dante's Inferno.
Página 270 - On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires; E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of th...
Página 83 - Still green with bays each ancient altar stands Above the reach of sacrilegious hands, Secure from flames, from Envy's fiercer rage, Destructive war, and all-involving Age. See from each clime the learn'd their incense bring ! Hear in all tongues consenting paeans ring!