The Round Table. Northcote's Conversations. CharacteristicsWilliam Hazlitt, William Carew Hazlitt |
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... mind to take an interest in things foreign to itself ; to love virtue for its own sake ; to prefer fame to life , and glory to riches ; and to fix our thoughts on the remote and permanent , instead of narrow and fleeting objects . It ...
... mind to take an interest in things foreign to itself ; to love virtue for its own sake ; to prefer fame to life , and glory to riches ; and to fix our thoughts on the remote and permanent , instead of narrow and fleeting objects . It ...
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... mind ; we feel the presence of that power which gives immortality to human thoughts and actions , and catch the flame of enthusiasm from all nations and ages . It is hard to find , in minds otherwise formed , either a real love of ...
... mind ; we feel the presence of that power which gives immortality to human thoughts and actions , and catch the flame of enthusiasm from all nations and ages . It is hard to find , in minds otherwise formed , either a real love of ...
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... mind : the only know- ledge that is of use , in a practical sense , is professional knowledge . But knowledge , considered as a branch of general education , can be of use only to the mind of the person acquiring it . If the knowledge ...
... mind : the only know- ledge that is of use , in a practical sense , is professional knowledge . But knowledge , considered as a branch of general education , can be of use only to the mind of the person acquiring it . If the knowledge ...
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... mind and person , which he does with a most copious and unsparing hand . The English journalist , goodnaturedly , lets you into the secret both of his own affairs and those of his neighbours . A young lady , on the other side of Temple ...
... mind and person , which he does with a most copious and unsparing hand . The English journalist , goodnaturedly , lets you into the secret both of his own affairs and those of his neighbours . A young lady , on the other side of Temple ...
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... mind , and therefore deserves consideration . The character of lago , in fact , belongs to a class of characters common to Shak- speare , and at the same time peculiar to him - namely , that of great intellectual activity , accompanied ...
... mind , and therefore deserves consideration . The character of lago , in fact , belongs to a class of characters common to Shak- speare , and at the same time peculiar to him - namely , that of great intellectual activity , accompanied ...
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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.