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Página xxi
How many such days are there in a year , how many years in a long life , still
occupied with something interesting , still recalling some old impression , still
recurring to some difficult question and making progress in it , every step
accompanied ...
How many such days are there in a year , how many years in a long life , still
occupied with something interesting , still recalling some old impression , still
recurring to some difficult question and making progress in it , every step
accompanied ...
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In regard to every impression , every , prejudice , every stray thought that
struggled into consciousness , his practice was , to use his own favorite quotation
, “ To pour out all as plain As downright Shippen or as old Montaigne . ” 3 He has
...
In regard to every impression , every , prejudice , every stray thought that
struggled into consciousness , his practice was , to use his own favorite quotation
, “ To pour out all as plain As downright Shippen or as old Montaigne . ” 3 He has
...
Página lxi
Those who have praised Hazlitt's simplicity have often given the impression that
his prose is a single - stringed instrument , and have failed to suggest the range
comprised between the simple hammer - strokes of the essay on Cobbett and the
...
Those who have praised Hazlitt's simplicity have often given the impression that
his prose is a single - stringed instrument , and have failed to suggest the range
comprised between the simple hammer - strokes of the essay on Cobbett and the
...
Página lxvi
I grant thus much , that it is in vain to seek for the word we want , or endeavour to
get at it second - hand , or as a paraphrase on some other word - it must come of
itself , or arise out of an immediate impression or lively intuition of the subject ...
I grant thus much , that it is in vain to seek for the word we want , or endeavour to
get at it second - hand , or as a paraphrase on some other word - it must come of
itself , or arise out of an immediate impression or lively intuition of the subject ...
Página lxvii
That is why his criticism , like Lamb's or that of the master of this form , Longinus ,
is itself first - rate literature , recreating the impression of a masterpiece and
sometimes even going beyond it . Of his picturesque quality examples enough
may ...
That is why his criticism , like Lamb's or that of the master of this form , Longinus ,
is itself first - rate literature , recreating the impression of a masterpiece and
sometimes even going beyond it . Of his picturesque quality examples enough
may ...
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Hazlitt on English Literature: An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature William Hazlitt,Jacob Zeitlin Visualização integral - 1913 |
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Hazlitt on English Literature: An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature William Hazlitt,Jacob Zeitlin Visualização integral - 1913 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
action admiration affectation appearance beauty become better Burke called character circumstances Coleridge common conversation criticism death delight describes distinction English equal Essays excellence expression face fancy feeling force friends genius give hand Hazlitt head heart hopes human idea imagination impression interest kind language least leave less light literature living look Lord manner means mind moral nature never objects observation once opinion original passage passed passion perhaps period person play pleasure poet poetical poetry political present principles reader reason respect round scene seems seen sense sentiment Shakspeare sometimes sound speak spirit story striking style talk taste things thou thought tion true truth turn understanding verse whole wish Wordsworth writings
Passagens conhecidas
Página 91 - He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
Página 88 - Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Página 216 - 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 77 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Página lvii - Your face, my thane, is as a book, where men May read strange matters : — To beguile the time, Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it.
Página 94 - ... In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half -hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repaired with straw, With tape-tied curtains never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas ! how changed from him, That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim ! Gallant and gay, in Cliveden's proud alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love ; Or just as gay at council, in a ring...
Página 36 - I have lived long enough : my way of life Is fall'n 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.
Página 186 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Página 5 - How noble in reason! how infinite in faculties, in form and moving, how express and admirable in action, how like an angel in apprehension, how like a god ! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me; no, nor woman neither, though, by your smiling, you seem to say so.
Página 81 - And vapour as the Libyan air adust Began to parch that temperate clime; whereat In either hand the hast'ning angel caught Our ling'ring parents, and to th' eastern gate Led them direct, and down the cliff as fast To the subjected plain,— then disappear'd. They looking back, all th...
Informação bibliográfica
| Título | Hazlitt on English Literature: An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature |
| Autores | William Hazlitt, Jacob Zeitlin |
| Editor | Jacob Zeitlin |
| Editora | Oxford University Press, 1913 |
| Original de | Universidade de Harvard |
| Digitalizado | 30 Jan 2006 |
| ISBN | 140477002X, 9781404770027 |
| Número de páginas | 441 páginas |
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