Literary Remains of the Late William Hazlitt, Volume 2Saunders and Otley, 1836 |
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Page 77
... to the same exclusive and narrow - minded spirit . Think that the minds of men are various as their faces - that the modes and employments of life are numberless as they are necessary - that there is more than ON THE CONDUCT OF LIFE . 77.
... to the same exclusive and narrow - minded spirit . Think that the minds of men are various as their faces - that the modes and employments of life are numberless as they are necessary - that there is more than ON THE CONDUCT OF LIFE . 77.
Page 80
... face upon the worst things . I only mean that indiscriminate , unqualified satire can do little good , and that ... faces as those ; nor despair of doing something worthy of a laudable ambition , when you see what such hands have wrought ...
... face upon the worst things . I only mean that indiscriminate , unqualified satire can do little good , and that ... faces as those ; nor despair of doing something worthy of a laudable ambition , when you see what such hands have wrought ...
Page 107
... face from me . I have gazed along the silent air for that smile which had lured me to my doom . I no more heard those accents which would have burst upon me , like a voice from heaven . I loathed the light that shone on my disgrace ...
... face from me . I have gazed along the silent air for that smile which had lured me to my doom . I no more heard those accents which would have burst upon me , like a voice from heaven . I loathed the light that shone on my disgrace ...
Page 115
... face and figure , which we observe in the old statues , is not an ideal abstraction , is not a fanciful invention of the sculptor , but is as completely local and national ( though it happens to be more beau- tiful ) as the figures on a ...
... face and figure , which we observe in the old statues , is not an ideal abstraction , is not a fanciful invention of the sculptor , but is as completely local and national ( though it happens to be more beau- tiful ) as the figures on a ...
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... faces , and I have heard it remarked , that the women in the streets of Rome seem to have walked out of his pictures in ... face or figure which is any thing more than fine individual nature finely disposed and copied . The late Mr Barry ...
... faces , and I have heard it remarked , that the women in the streets of Rome seem to have walked out of his pictures in ... face or figure which is any thing more than fine individual nature finely disposed and copied . The late Mr Barry ...
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Page 404 - Let it pry through the portage of the head Like the brass cannon ; let the brow o'erwhelm it As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Page 214 - 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 403 - In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility : 5 But, when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...
Page 451 - Fear made her devils, and weak hope her gods; Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust, Whose attributes were rage, revenge, or lust; Such as the souls of cowards might conceive, And, form'd like tyrants, tyrants would believe.
Page 342 - Where Murray (long enough his country's pride) Shall be no more than Tully or than Hyde...
Page 270 - On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires; E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of th...
Page 85 - 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!
Page 384 - Coleridge's cottage. I think I see him now. He answered in some degree to his friend's description of him, but was more gaunt and Don Quixote-like. He was quaintly dressed (according to the costume of that unconstrained period) in a brown fustian jacket and striped pantaloons. There was something of a roll, a lounge in his gait, not unlike his own
Page 277 - Search then the ruling passion: there, alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.
Page 463 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella.