Essays : on self-loveSaunders and Otley, 1836 |
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... follow , if we were only satisfied to believe any extravagance of assertion , and to use words systematically with- out either connexion or meaning . The whole of this writer's argument against the existence of a benevolent principle in ...
... follow , if we were only satisfied to believe any extravagance of assertion , and to use words systematically with- out either connexion or meaning . The whole of this writer's argument against the existence of a benevolent principle in ...
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... follow- ing passage from Rousseau's ' Emilius ' in support of his doctrine : - " A man may indeed pretend to prefer my interest to his own ; however plausibly he colours over this falsehood , I am quite sure it is one . " But I would ...
... follow- ing passage from Rousseau's ' Emilius ' in support of his doctrine : - " A man may indeed pretend to prefer my interest to his own ; however plausibly he colours over this falsehood , I am quite sure it is one . " But I would ...
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... follow from both principles combined : but to say that our attachment to others is in the exact ratio of our obligations to them , is contrary to all we know of human nature . I would ask whether the affection of a mother for her child ...
... follow from both principles combined : but to say that our attachment to others is in the exact ratio of our obligations to them , is contrary to all we know of human nature . I would ask whether the affection of a mother for her child ...
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... follows from this is , that so far as he desires the good of others he is not in a state of indif- ference . That a man cannot desire an object and not desire it at the same time requires no proof . But what ought to have been proved ...
... follows from this is , that so far as he desires the good of others he is not in a state of indif- ference . That a man cannot desire an object and not desire it at the same time requires no proof . But what ought to have been proved ...
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... follows : " What then do I feel in the presence of an object of compassion ? A strong emotion . What causes this emotion ? The recollection of the sufferings to which man is subject , and to which I am myself liable . It is this ...
... follows : " What then do I feel in the presence of an object of compassion ? A strong emotion . What causes this emotion ? The recollection of the sufferings to which man is subject , and to which I am myself liable . It is this ...
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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
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Página 406 - 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 214 - 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 405 - 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 364 - As he gave out this text, his voice ' rose like a stream of rich distilled perfumes;' and when he came to the two last words, which he pronounced loud, deep, and distinct, it seemed to me, who was then young, as if the sounds had echoed from the bottom of the human heart, and as if that prayer might have floated in solemn silence through the universe. The idea of St. John came into my mind, ' of one crying in the wilderness, who had his loins girt about, and whose food was locusts and wild honey.
Página 85 - Whose honours with increase of ages grow, As streams roll down, enlarging as they flow ; Nations unborn your mighty names shall sound, And worlds applaud that must not yet be found...
Página 344 - But why then publish? Granville the polite, And knowing Walsh, would tell me I could write; Well-natured Garth inflamed with early praise; And Congreve loved, and Swift endured my lays; The courtly Talbot, Somers, Sheffield read; Ev'n mitred Rochester would nod the head, And St. John's self (great Dryden's friends before) With open arms received one poet more.
Página 453 - 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 272 - 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 386 - Coleridge's cottage. I think I see him now. He answered in some degree to his friend's description of him, but was more gaunt and Don Quixote-like. He was quaintly dressed (according to the costume of that unconstrained period) in a brown fustian jacket and striped pantaloons. There was something of a roll, a lounge in his gait, not unlike his own
Página 279 - Search then the ruling passion: there, alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.