The round table [essays] by W. Hazlitt [including A day by the fire, by J.H.L. Hunt].1869 |
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... continued 171 The Subject continued 182 On Common - place Critics On Religious Hypocrisy On the Literary Character On Actors and Acting On the same 192 197 205 211 216 PRELIMINARY NOTE . N the year 1821 an ardent American. vi CONTENTS .
... continued 171 The Subject continued 182 On Common - place Critics On Religious Hypocrisy On the Literary Character On Actors and Acting On the same 192 197 205 211 216 PRELIMINARY NOTE . N the year 1821 an ardent American. vi CONTENTS .
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... continued 156 A Day by the Fire 163 The Subject continued The Subject continued 171 182 192 On Religious Hypocrisy On the Literary Character On Actors and Acting On the same On Common - place Critics 197 205 211 216. vi CONTENTS .
... continued 156 A Day by the Fire 163 The Subject continued The Subject continued 171 182 192 On Religious Hypocrisy On the Literary Character On Actors and Acting On the same On Common - place Critics 197 205 211 216. vi CONTENTS .
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... " Blackwood , " the " Quarterly , " and other reviews , and to the abuse so unsparingly lavished on the essayist . One critic went so far as to call him " the pimpled Hazlitt , " which epithet , as viii PRELIMINARY NOTE .
... " Blackwood , " the " Quarterly , " and other reviews , and to the abuse so unsparingly lavished on the essayist . One critic went so far as to call him " the pimpled Hazlitt , " which epithet , as viii PRELIMINARY NOTE .
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... he makes us amends for this unlucky accident by a criticism on the shower in Virgil , and concludes with a burlesque copy of verses on a city shower . He en- tertains us , when he dates from his own apartment ON THE TATLER . II.
... he makes us amends for this unlucky accident by a criticism on the shower in Virgil , and concludes with a burlesque copy of verses on a city shower . He en- tertains us , when he dates from his own apartment ON THE TATLER . II.
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... criticism in the " Spectator , " that on the Cartoons of Raphael , is by Steele . We owed this acknowledg- ment to a writer who has so often put us in good humour with ourselves and every thing about us , when few things else could.1 廳 ...
... criticism in the " Spectator , " that on the Cartoons of Raphael , is by Steele . We owed this acknowledg- ment to a writer who has so often put us in good humour with ourselves and every thing about us , when few things else could.1 廳 ...
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Page 42 - 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.
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Page 26 - 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 118 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of Noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days...
Page 187 - The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ; On shining altars of japan they raise The silver lamp ; the fiery spirits blaze : From silver spouts the grateful liquors glide, While China's earth receives the smoking tide : At once they gratify their scent and taste, And frequent cups prolong the rich repast.
Page 192 - When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath thresh'd the corn That ten day-labourers could not end; Then lies him down, the lubber fiend, And, stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength; And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
Page 141 - 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!
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Page 179 - Pronounced, and in his volumes taught, our laws, Which others at their bar so often wrench ; To-day deep thoughts resolve with me to drench In mirth that, after, no repenting draws : Let Euclid rest, and Archimedes pause, And what the Swede intends, and what the French.
Page 139 - For softness she and sweet attractive grace ; He for God only, she for God in him : His fair large front and eye sublime declared Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks Round from his parted forelock manly hung Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad...