Biographical Essays and Essays on the PoetsOsgood, 1875 |
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Page 186
... Hazlitt ac- cordingly is styled The great thinker . ' But had he been such potentially , there was an absolute bar to his achievement of that station in act and consummation . No man can be a great thinker in our days upon large and ...
... Hazlitt ac- cordingly is styled The great thinker . ' But had he been such potentially , there was an absolute bar to his achievement of that station in act and consummation . No man can be a great thinker in our days upon large and ...
Page 187
... Hazlitt had read nothing . Unacquaint- ed with Grecian philosophy , with Scholastic philoso- phy , and with the recomposition of these philosophies in the looms of Germany during the last sixty and odd years , trusting merely to the ...
... Hazlitt had read nothing . Unacquaint- ed with Grecian philosophy , with Scholastic philoso- phy , and with the recomposition of these philosophies in the looms of Germany during the last sixty and odd years , trusting merely to the ...
Page 188
... Hazlitt's defect in elo- quence as a lecturer , is sufficient also as a reason why he could not have been a ... Hazlitt forfeited his chance of eloquence by accommodating himself to this evening's excite- ment , or by gloomily resisting ...
... Hazlitt's defect in elo- quence as a lecturer , is sufficient also as a reason why he could not have been a ... Hazlitt forfeited his chance of eloquence by accommodating himself to this evening's excite- ment , or by gloomily resisting ...
Page 189
... Hazlitt's thoughts were of the same fractured and discontinuous order as - his illustrative images seldom or never self - diffusive ; and that is a sufficient argument that he had never cultivated philosophic thinking . - Not , however ...
... Hazlitt's thoughts were of the same fractured and discontinuous order as - his illustrative images seldom or never self - diffusive ; and that is a sufficient argument that he had never cultivated philosophic thinking . - Not , however ...
Page 195
... Hazlitt's mode of com- position , viz . , the habit of trite quotation , too common to have challenged much notice , were it not for these reasons : 1st , That Sergeant Talfourd speaks of it in equivocal terms , as a fault perhaps , but ...
... Hazlitt's mode of com- position , viz . , the habit of trite quotation , too common to have challenged much notice , were it not for these reasons : 1st , That Sergeant Talfourd speaks of it in equivocal terms , as a fault perhaps , but ...
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