Selected Essays of William Hazlitt, 1778-1830Nonesuch Press, 1948 - 807 páginas |
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... beauty- not pleasure , but power . He has no choice , no selection of subject to flatter the reader's idle taste , or assist his own fancy : he must take what comes , and make the most of it . He works the most striking effects out of ...
... beauty- not pleasure , but power . He has no choice , no selection of subject to flatter the reader's idle taste , or assist his own fancy : he must take what comes , and make the most of it . He works the most striking effects out of ...
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... beauty is power . By their beauty they are raised above the frailties of pain or passion ; by their beauty they are deified . The infinite quantity of dramatic invention in Shak- speare takes from his gusto . The power he delights to ...
... beauty is power . By their beauty they are raised above the frailties of pain or passion ; by their beauty they are deified . The infinite quantity of dramatic invention in Shak- speare takes from his gusto . The power he delights to ...
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... beauty , not to enjoy it ! It is a fate , perhaps , not without its compensations- 66 Had Petrarch gained his Laura for a wife , Would he have written Sonnets all his life ? " This distinguished beauty is still living , and handsomer ...
... beauty , not to enjoy it ! It is a fate , perhaps , not without its compensations- 66 Had Petrarch gained his Laura for a wife , Would he have written Sonnets all his life ? " This distinguished beauty is still living , and handsomer ...
Contenido
On the Love of Life | 8 |
On Living to Onesself | 24 |
On Reading Old Books | 40 |
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