The Round Table. Northcote's Conversations. CharacteristicsWilliam Hazlitt, William Carew Hazlitt Bell & Daldy, 1871 - 568 من الصفحات |
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... opinion of that sage who thought " that the best thing that could have happened to a man was never to have been born , and the next best to have died the moment after he came into existence . " The common argument , however , which is ...
... opinion of that sage who thought " that the best thing that could have happened to a man was never to have been born , and the next best to have died the moment after he came into existence . " The common argument , however , which is ...
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... the persuasion that they ought to be happier than other men . The prejudice of opinion , which attaches us to life , is in them stronger than in others , and incorrigible to experience . The great are life's fools 4 On the Love of Life .
... the persuasion that they ought to be happier than other men . The prejudice of opinion , which attaches us to life , is in them stronger than in others , and incorrigible to experience . The great are life's fools 4 On the Love of Life .
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... opinion , and raises us above that low and servile fear which bows only to present power and upstart authority . Rome and Athens filled a place in the history of mankind which can never be occupied again . They were two cities set on a ...
... opinion , and raises us above that low and servile fear which bows only to present power and upstart authority . Rome and Athens filled a place in the history of mankind which can never be occupied again . They were two cities set on a ...
الصفحة 7
... opinion , according to the natural sluggishness or activity of their minds . For they either become blindly bigoted to the first opinions they have struck out for themselves , and inaccessible to conviction ; or else ( the dupes of ...
... opinion , according to the natural sluggishness or activity of their minds . For they either become blindly bigoted to the first opinions they have struck out for themselves , and inaccessible to conviction ; or else ( the dupes of ...
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... opinion of a contemporary critic , that his Richard is not gay enough , and that his Iago is not grave enough . This he may perhaps conceive to be the mere caprice of idle criticism ; but we will try to give our reasons , and shall ...
... opinion of a contemporary critic , that his Richard is not gay enough , and that his Iago is not grave enough . This he may perhaps conceive to be the mere caprice of idle criticism ; but we will try to give our reasons , and shall ...
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الصفحة 9 - tis no matter; Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on, how then ? Can honour set to a leg ? No. Or an arm ? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour ? What is that honour ? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it ? He that died o
الصفحة 50 - Namancos and Bayona's hold ; Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth ! And, O ye dolphins, waft the hapless youth...
الصفحة 157 - O unexpected stroke, worse than of Death! Must I thus leave thee$ Paradise? thus leave Thee, native soil! these happy walks and shades, Fit haunt of Gods? where I had hope to spend, Quiet though sad, the respite of that day That must be mortal to us both.
الصفحة 169 - Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower ; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind, In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be, In the...
الصفحة 152 - Two of far nobler shape erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad In naked majesty seemed lords of all, And worthy seemed, for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure, Severe, but in true filial freedom placed; Whence true authority in men...
الصفحة 47 - Last came, and last did go The Pilot of the Galilean lake; Two massy keys he bore of metals twain...
الصفحة 153 - Pure as the expanse of Heaven: I thither went, With unexperienced thought, and laid me down On the green bank, to look into the clear Smooth lake, that to me seem'd another sky. As I bent down to look, just opposite A shape within the watery gleam appear'd, Bending to look on me; I started back: It started back: but pleased I soon return'd; Pleas'd it return'd as soon, with answering looks Of sympathy and love...
الصفحة 134 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of Noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days...
الصفحة 34 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.