Hazlitt on English Literature: An Introduction to the Appreciation of LiteratureOxford University Press, 1913 - 441 páginas |
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... Coleridge and Wordsworth . 1798 ? -1805 Study and practice of painting . 1802 Visit to Paris . 1805 Essay on the Principles of Human Action . 1806 Free Thoughts on Public Affairs . 1807 An Abridgment of the Light of Nature Revealed , by ...
... Coleridge and Wordsworth . 1798 ? -1805 Study and practice of painting . 1802 Visit to Paris . 1805 Essay on the Principles of Human Action . 1806 Free Thoughts on Public Affairs . 1807 An Abridgment of the Light of Nature Revealed , by ...
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... Coleridge and Wordsworth , Hazlitt continued to cling to his enthusiastic faith , but at the same time the spectacle of a world which turned away from its brightest dreams made of him a sharp critic of human nature , and his sense of ...
... Coleridge and Wordsworth , Hazlitt continued to cling to his enthusiastic faith , but at the same time the spectacle of a world which turned away from its brightest dreams made of him a sharp critic of human nature , and his sense of ...
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... Coleridge and Wordsworth of which he has left a record in one of his most eloquent essays , " My First Acquaint- ance with Poets . " But his active energies were concen- trated on the solution of a metaphysical problem which was ...
... Coleridge and Wordsworth of which he has left a record in one of his most eloquent essays , " My First Acquaint- ance with Poets . " But his active energies were concen- trated on the solution of a metaphysical problem which was ...
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... Coleridge and Southey because they were rene- gades from the cause which lay nearest to his heart . Their apostasy was an unforgivable offence in his eyes , and his wrath was proportioned to the admiration which he other- wise ...
... Coleridge and Southey because they were rene- gades from the cause which lay nearest to his heart . Their apostasy was an unforgivable offence in his eyes , and his wrath was proportioned to the admiration which he other- wise ...
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... Coleridge his prophet , and it is by virtue of what inspiration they drew from these oracles that John Lock- hart and John Scott became better qualified than Jeffrey or Gifford to form the literary opinions of the public . 66 Coleridge ...
... Coleridge his prophet , and it is by virtue of what inspiration they drew from these oracles that John Lock- hart and John Scott became better qualified than Jeffrey or Gifford to form the literary opinions of the public . 66 Coleridge ...
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Hazlitt on English Literature: An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature William Hazlitt,Jacob Zeitlin Visualização integral - 1913 |
Hazlitt on English Literature: An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature William Hazlitt Visualização integral - 1913 |
Hazlitt on English Literature: An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature William Hazlitt Visualização integral - 1913 |
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admiration affectation Age of Elizabeth appeared beauty Beggar's Opera better Burke character Chaucer Coleridge Coleridge's comedy criticism CYMBELINE delight dramatic dream Edinburgh Review English equal Essays expression Faerie Queene Falstaff fancy feeling French genius give Hamlet Hazlitt heart heaven human humour Iago idea imagination impression John Julius Cæsar Lamb lecture literary literature living look Lord Byron Macbeth manner Midsummer Night's Dream Milton mind moral Muse nature never object opinion Othello Paradise Lost passage passion person philosopher play pleasure poem poet poetical poetry political Pope prejudice principles prose reader reason romantic scene seems sense sentiment Shakspeare Shakspeare's shew soul sound Spenser spirit style sweet Table Talk taste Tatler things thou thought tion Tom Jones tragedy translation Troilus and Cressida truth verse William Hazlitt words Wordsworth writer
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...