The Round Table. Northcote's Conversations. CharacteristicsWilliam Hazlitt, William Carew Hazlitt Bell & Daldy, 1871 - 568 من الصفحات |
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... things foreign to itself ; to love virtue for its own sake ; to prefer fame to life , and glory to riches ; and to fix our thoughts on the remote and permanent , instead of narrow and fleeting objects . It teaches us to believe that ...
... things foreign to itself ; to love virtue for its own sake ; to prefer fame to life , and glory to riches ; and to fix our thoughts on the remote and permanent , instead of narrow and fleeting objects . It teaches us to believe that ...
الصفحة 8
... things , and to give the preference in all cases to the latter . But , in the first place , the knowledge of things , or of the realities of life , is not easily to be taught except by things themselves , and , even if it were , is not ...
... things , and to give the preference in all cases to the latter . But , in the first place , the knowledge of things , or of the realities of life , is not easily to be taught except by things themselves , and , even if it were , is not ...
الصفحة 13
... things . Systems and opinions change , but nature is always true . It is the extremely moral and didactic tone of the ' Spectator ' which makes us apt to think of Addison ( according to Mandeville's sarcasm ) as “ a parson in a tie ...
... things . Systems and opinions change , but nature is always true . It is the extremely moral and didactic tone of the ' Spectator ' which makes us apt to think of Addison ( according to Mandeville's sarcasm ) as “ a parson in a tie ...
الصفحة 34
... things were of too universal and compre- hensive a cast , not to have taught him to estimate the importance of posthumous fame according to its true value and relative proportions . Though he might have some conception of his future ...
... things were of too universal and compre- hensive a cast , not to have taught him to estimate the importance of posthumous fame according to its true value and relative proportions . Though he might have some conception of his future ...
الصفحة 51
... things in the world , and he does say them . He adorns and dignifies his subject to the utmost . He surrounds it with all the possible associations of beauty or grandeur , 1 Act iv . sc . 3 , Dyce's 2nd edit . 1868 , vol . iii . pp ...
... things in the world , and he does say them . He adorns and dignifies his subject to the utmost . He surrounds it with all the possible associations of beauty or grandeur , 1 Act iv . sc . 3 , Dyce's 2nd edit . 1868 , vol . iii . pp ...
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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.