Literary Remains of the Late William Hazlitt: With a Notice of His Life by His Son, and Thoughts on His Genius and Writings by E.L. BulwerSaunders and Otley, 1836 - 315 pages |
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... produce that mutual happiness which was its object , owing in great measure to an imagined and most unfounded idea on my father's part , of a want of sympathy on that of my mother . For some time previous to this my father had fallen ...
... produce that mutual happiness which was its object , owing in great measure to an imagined and most unfounded idea on my father's part , of a want of sympathy on that of my mother . For some time previous to this my father had fallen ...
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... produced many men of poetical genius , and some of analytical acumen ; but I doubt whether it has produced any one ... produce . Thus especially in his Characters of Shakspeare's Plays , ' he seizes at once upon the ruling principle of ...
... produced many men of poetical genius , and some of analytical acumen ; but I doubt whether it has produced any one ... produce . Thus especially in his Characters of Shakspeare's Plays , ' he seizes at once upon the ruling principle of ...
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... this time , also , while at once laborous and listless , he became the as- sociate of a band of young poets of power and promise such as England 6 had not produced for two centuries , whose genius xxxiv THOUGHTS UPON THE.
... this time , also , while at once laborous and listless , he became the as- sociate of a band of young poets of power and promise such as England 6 had not produced for two centuries , whose genius xxxiv THOUGHTS UPON THE.
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... produced for two centuries , whose genius had been awakened by the rising sun of liberty , and breathed forth most eloquent music . Their political creed resembled his own ; yet , for the better and more influential part , they were ...
... produced for two centuries , whose genius had been awakened by the rising sun of liberty , and breathed forth most eloquent music . Their political creed resembled his own ; yet , for the better and more influential part , they were ...
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... produced in Hazlitt a rooted attachment to the theatre , where the delights of the mind and the senses are blended ; where the grandeur of the poet's conceptions is in some degree , made palpable , and luxury is raised and refined by ...
... produced in Hazlitt a rooted attachment to the theatre , where the delights of the mind and the senses are blended ; where the grandeur of the poet's conceptions is in some degree , made palpable , and luxury is raised and refined by ...
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Page 101 - IT is evident to any one who takes a survey of the objects of human knowledge, that they are either ideas actually imprinted on the senses; or else such as are perceived by attending to the passions and operations of the mind; or lastly, ideas formed by help of memory and imagination— either compounding, dividing, or barely representing those originally perceived in the aforesaid ways.
Page 230 - 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.
Page 295 - In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility : But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...
Page 208 - The birds their quire apply; airs, vernal airs, Breathing the smell of field and grove, attune The trembling leaves; while universal Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance^ Led on the eternal spring.
Page 81 - Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas ; how comes it to be furnished ? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge ? To this I answer in one word, from experience ; in that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives itself.
Page 108 - A spirit is one simple, undivided, active being: as it perceives ideas, it is called the understanding, and as it produces or otherwise operates about them, it is called the will.
Page 82 - These two, I say, viz., external material things as the objects of sensation, and the operations of our own minds within as the objects of reflection, are, to me, the only originals from whence all our ideas take their beginnings.
Page 101 - But, besides all that endless variety of ideas or objects of knowledge, there is likewise Something which knows or perceives them ; and exercises divers operations, as willing, imagining, remembering, about them. This perceiving, active being is what I call mind, spirit, soul, or myself. By which words I do not denote any one of my ideas, but a thing entirely distinct from them, wherein they exist, or, which is the same thing, whereby they are perceived ; for the existence of an idea consists in...
Page 102 - For as to what is said of the absolute existence of unthinking things, without any relation to their being perceived, that is to me perfectly unintelligible. Their esse is percipi; nor is it possible they should have any existence out of the minds or thinking things which perceive them.
Page 155 - Still green with bays each ancient altar stands Above the reach of sacrilegious hands, Secure from flames, from Envy's fiercer rage, Destructive war, and all-involving Age. See from each clime the learn'd their incense bring ! Hear in all tongues consenting paeans ring!