The Round Table. Northcote's Conversations. CharacteristicsWilliam Hazlitt, William Carew Hazlitt |
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... favourite object . We chiefly look upon life , then , as the means to an end . Its common enjoyments and its daily evils are alike disregarded for any idle purpose we have in view . It should seem as if there were a few green sunny ...
... favourite object . We chiefly look upon life , then , as the means to an end . Its common enjoyments and its daily evils are alike disregarded for any idle purpose we have in view . It should seem as if there were a few green sunny ...
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... favourite propensity , gives greater zest to his thoughts , ! and scope to his actions . Be it observed , too ( for the sake of those who are for squaring all human actions by the maxims of Rochefoucault ) , that he is quite or nearly ...
... favourite propensity , gives greater zest to his thoughts , ! and scope to his actions . Be it observed , too ( for the sake of those who are for squaring all human actions by the maxims of Rochefoucault ) , that he is quite or nearly ...
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... favourite , Belinda , just at the moment of the Rape of the Lock . ' The heightened glow , the forward intelligence , and loosened soul of love in the same face , in the assignation scene before the masquerade , form a fine and ...
... favourite , Belinda , just at the moment of the Rape of the Lock . ' The heightened glow , the forward intelligence , and loosened soul of love in the same face , in the assignation scene before the masquerade , form a fine and ...
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... favourite , and with the portrait of Monsieur Des Noyers in the background , dancing in a grand ballet , surrounded by butterflies . And again , in The Election Dinner , ' is the immortal cobbler , surrounded by his peers , who ...
... favourite , and with the portrait of Monsieur Des Noyers in the background , dancing in a grand ballet , surrounded by butterflies . And again , in The Election Dinner , ' is the immortal cobbler , surrounded by his peers , who ...
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... favourite with us . We cannot agree to the charge which Dr. Johnson has brought against it , of pedantry and want of feeling . It is the fine emanation of classical sentiment in a youthful scholar- " most musical , most melancholy . " A ...
... favourite with us . We cannot agree to the charge which Dr. Johnson has brought against it , of pedantry and want of feeling . It is the fine emanation of classical sentiment in a youthful scholar- " most musical , most melancholy . " A ...
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Page 50 - Namancos and Bayona's hold ; Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth ! And, O ye dolphins, waft the hapless youth...
Page 49 - Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe and pale jessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freaked with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose, and the well-attired woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears ; Bid Amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffadillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.
Page 163 - When winds are blowing strong. The traveller slaked His thirst from rill or gushing fount, and thanked The Naiad. Sunbeams, upon distant hills Gliding apace, with shadows in their train, Might, with small help from fancy, be transformed Into fleet Oreads sporting visibly. The Zephyrs fanning, as they passed, their wings, Lacked not, for love, fair objects whom they wooed With gentle whisper. Withered boughs grotesque, Stripped of their leaves and twigs by hoary age, From depth of shaggy covert peeping...
Page 153 - Not distant far from thence, a murmuring sound Of waters issued from a cave, and spread Into a liquid plain, then stood unmoved, Pure as the expanse of Heaven: I thither went, With unexperienced thought, and laid me down On the green bank, to look into the clear Smooth lake, that to me seem'd another sky.
Page 154 - As through unquiet rest: he, on his side Leaning, half raised, with looks of cordial love Hung over her enamour'd, and beheld Beauty, which, whether waking or asleep, Shot forth peculiar graces; then with voice Mild, as when Zephyrus on Flora breathes, Her hand soft touching, whisper'd thus: ' Awake My fairest, my espoused, my latest found, Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight!
Page 152 - Two of far nobler shape erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad In naked majesty seemed lords of all, And worthy seemed, for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure, Severe, but in true filial freedom placed; Whence true authority in men...
Page 56 - Whose midnight revels, by a forest side, Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course ; they, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear ; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds.
Page 47 - Last came, and last did go The Pilot of the Galilean lake; Two massy keys he bore of metals twain...
Page 34 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Page 45 - We drove a-field, and both together heard What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn, Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night, Oft till the star that rose at evening, bright, Toward heaven's descent had sloped his westering wheel.