Selected Essays of William Hazlitt, 1778-1830 |
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The designing knave may sometimes wear a vizor , or , " to beguile the time , look like the time " ; but watch him narrowly , and you will detect him behind his mask ! We recognize , after a length of years , the same wellknown face ...
The designing knave may sometimes wear a vizor , or , " to beguile the time , look like the time " ; but watch him narrowly , and you will detect him behind his mask ! We recognize , after a length of years , the same wellknown face ...
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Those in question were some of the choice - spirits of the age , not " fellows of no mark or likelihood " ; and we so far did them justice : but it is well they did not hear what we sometimes said of them . I care little what any one ...
Those in question were some of the choice - spirits of the age , not " fellows of no mark or likelihood " ; and we so far did them justice : but it is well they did not hear what we sometimes said of them . I care little what any one ...
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Sometimes it is lodged in a sly question , in a smart answer ; in a quirkish reason ; in a shrewd intimation ; in cunningly diverting or cleverly restoring an objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech ; in a tart ...
Sometimes it is lodged in a sly question , in a smart answer ; in a quirkish reason ; in a shrewd intimation ; in cunningly diverting or cleverly restoring an objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech ; in a tart ...
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On the Love of Life | 8 |
On Living to Onesself | 24 |
On Reading Old Books | 40 |
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