Literary Remains of the Late William Hazlitt, Volume 2Saunders and Otley, 1836 |
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Page 36
... what may give us pain ? Why do we sympathise with the distresses of others at all ? " The jealous God at sight of human ties , Spreads his light wings and in a moment flies . " Why does not our self - love in like manner 36 ON SELF - LOVE .
... what may give us pain ? Why do we sympathise with the distresses of others at all ? " The jealous God at sight of human ties , Spreads his light wings and in a moment flies . " Why does not our self - love in like manner 36 ON SELF - LOVE .
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... light , unsubstantial , and remote a creation to influence our real conduct , and that nothing is worthy of the concern of a wise man in which he has not this direct , unavoidable , and homefelt interest . This is , however , too absurd ...
... light , unsubstantial , and remote a creation to influence our real conduct , and that nothing is worthy of the concern of a wise man in which he has not this direct , unavoidable , and homefelt interest . This is , however , too absurd ...
Page 85
... light shines like a mighty sea - mark into the abyss of time . " 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 ...
... light shines like a mighty sea - mark into the abyss of time . " 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 ...
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... light of books is diffused very much abroad in the world in conversation and at second - hand ; and besides , common sense is not a monopoly , and expe- rience and observation are sources of informa- tion open to the man of the world as ...
... light of books is diffused very much abroad in the world in conversation and at second - hand ; and besides , common sense is not a monopoly , and expe- rience and observation are sources of informa- tion open to the man of the world as ...
Page 107
... light that shone on my disgrace . Hours , days , years , passed away ; and only turned false hope to fixed de- spair . And as my frail bark sails down the stream of time , the God of Love stands on the shore , and as I stretch out my ...
... light that shone on my disgrace . Hours , days , years , passed away ; and only turned false hope to fixed de- spair . And as my frail bark sails down the stream of time , the God of Love stands on the shore , and as I stretch out my ...
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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.