The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things : in Two Volumes, Volum 1Henry Colburn, New Burlington-Street, 1826 - 912 sider |
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Side 3
... better , and generally the worse from the habit of writing , verse . Poets are winged animals , and can cleave the air , like birds , with ease to themselves and delight to the beholders ; but like those " fea- thered , two - legged ...
... better , and generally the worse from the habit of writing , verse . Poets are winged animals , and can cleave the air , like birds , with ease to themselves and delight to the beholders ; but like those " fea- thered , two - legged ...
Side 7
... better try the effect of his sentences on his ' stomach than on his ear . He may be. * As a singular example of steadiness of nerves , Mr. Tooke on one occasion had got upon the table at a public dinner to return thanks for his health ...
... better try the effect of his sentences on his ' stomach than on his ear . He may be. * As a singular example of steadiness of nerves , Mr. Tooke on one occasion had got upon the table at a public dinner to return thanks for his health ...
Side 19
... take during life , for better for worse . Burke's exe- cution , like that of all good prose , savours of the texture of what he describes , and his pen slides or drags over the ground of his subject , c2 ON THE PROSE - STYLE OF POETS . 19.
... take during life , for better for worse . Burke's exe- cution , like that of all good prose , savours of the texture of what he describes , and his pen slides or drags over the ground of his subject , c2 ON THE PROSE - STYLE OF POETS . 19.
Side 23
... better pleased with this classical fable than with the death of the Noble Peer , and delights to dwell upon it , to however little use . So he is glad to take advantage of i : the scriptural idea of a gourd ; not ON THE PROSE - STYLE OF ...
... better pleased with this classical fable than with the death of the Noble Peer , and delights to dwell upon it , to however little use . So he is glad to take advantage of i : the scriptural idea of a gourd ; not ON THE PROSE - STYLE OF ...
Side 26
... - laureat is a much better prose - writer . His style has an antique quaint- ness , with a modern familiarity . He has just a sufficient sprinkling of archaisms , of allusions to old Fuller 26 ON THE PROSE - STYLE OF POETS .
... - laureat is a much better prose - writer . His style has an antique quaint- ness , with a modern familiarity . He has just a sufficient sprinkling of archaisms , of allusions to old Fuller 26 ON THE PROSE - STYLE OF POETS .
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The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things, Volum 1 William Hazlitt Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1826 |
The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things, Volum 1 William Hazlitt Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1826 |
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Side 173 - Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race Disporting on thy margent green The paths of pleasure trace; Who foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm, thy glassy wave? The captive linnet which enthral? What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball?
Side 146 - Take the instant way For honour travels in a strait so narrow, W'here one but goes abreast: keep then the path; For emulation hath a thousand sons, That one by one pursue: If you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost...
Side 403 - And time and place are lost: where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal Anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand. For Hot, Cold, Moist, and Dry, four champions fierce Strive here for mastery...
Side 137 - What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and a love That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Side 398 - Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise ; Born with whate'er could win it from the wise, 'Women and fools must like him, or he dies : Though wondering senates hung on all he spoke, The club must hail him master of the joke.
Side 147 - That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arms outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer : welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing. O ! let not virtue seek Remuneration for the thing it was ; For beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin...
Side 147 - O'er-run and trampled on : Then what they do in present, Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop yours...
Side 122 - Bos. Do you not weep? Other sins only speak; murder shrieks out: The element of water moistens the earth, But blood flies upwards and bedews the heavens. Ferd. Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle: she died young.
Side 135 - A jest's prosperity lies in the ear • Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it : then, if sickly ears, Deaf 'd with the clamours of their own dear groans.
Side 293 - Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues.