The Miscellaneous Works, Volumen2H.C. Baird, 1854 |
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... the com- mencing volume of a rich and attractive series - an edi- tion of the miscellaneous and scattered writings of this Patriot , Metaphysician , and Critic . This latter class SOVERTISEMENT TO THE PRESENT EDITION.
... the com- mencing volume of a rich and attractive series - an edi- tion of the miscellaneous and scattered writings of this Patriot , Metaphysician , and Critic . This latter class SOVERTISEMENT TO THE PRESENT EDITION.
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William Hazlitt. Patriot , Metaphysician , and Critic . This latter class of seekers is rapidly increasing , as copies of the old editions disappear and the name of their author comes brighter and brighter out of the " foul fog " in ...
William Hazlitt. Patriot , Metaphysician , and Critic . This latter class of seekers is rapidly increasing , as copies of the old editions disappear and the name of their author comes brighter and brighter out of the " foul fog " in ...
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... critic has executed this part of his design were in avoiding an appearance of mysticism in his style , not very attractive to the English reader , and in bringing illustrations from particular pas sages of the plays themselves , of ...
... critic has executed this part of his design were in avoiding an appearance of mysticism in his style , not very attractive to the English reader , and in bringing illustrations from particular pas sages of the plays themselves , of ...
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... critic in behalf of Shakspeare , because our own countryman , Dr. Johnson , has not been so favorable to him . It ... critic must necessarily be a poet : but to be a good critic , he ought not to be a bad poet . Such poetry PREFACE . xvit.
... critic in behalf of Shakspeare , because our own countryman , Dr. Johnson , has not been so favorable to him . It ... critic must necessarily be a poet : but to be a good critic , he ought not to be a bad poet . Such poetry PREFACE . xvit.
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... critic seems more bent on maintaining the equilibrium of his style than the consistency or truth of his opinions . If Dr. Johnson's opa- nion was right , the following observations on Shakspeare's Plays must be greatly exaggerated , if ...
... critic seems more bent on maintaining the equilibrium of his style than the consistency or truth of his opinions . If Dr. Johnson's opa- nion was right , the following observations on Shakspeare's Plays must be greatly exaggerated , if ...
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Página 83 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves ; And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him, When he comes back ; you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites ; and you, whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms...
Página 13 - The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!
Página 97 - Romeo: and when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Página 145 - Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp, Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks, Infusing him with self and vain conceit, As if this flesh which walls about our life Were brass impregnable, and humour'd thus Comes at the last and with a little pin Bores through his castle wall, and farewell king...
Página 35 - DUKE'S PALACE. [Enter DUKE, CURIO, LORDS; MUSICIANS attending.] DUKE. If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die.— That strain again;— it had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.— Enough; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
Página 127 - Harry, I do not only marvel where thou spendest thy time, but also how thou art accompanied : for though the camomile, the more it is trodden on, the faster it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted, the sooner it wears.
Página 63 - Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light: But, oh ! she dances such a way— No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight.
Página 109 - Hear, Nature, hear ! dear goddess, hear ! Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful ! Into her womb convey sterility ! Dry up in her the organs of increase, And from her derogate body never spring A babe to honour her ! If she must teem...
Página 15 - A heavy summons lies like lead upon me, And yet I would not sleep. Merciful powers, Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature Gives way to in repose!
Página 81 - And mine shall. Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling Of their afflictions, and shall not myself, One of their kind, that relish all as sharply Passion* as they, be kindlier mov'd than thou art?