The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and ThingsWilliam Hazlitt, William Carew Hazlitt George Bell & sons, 1890 - 538 pages |
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... nature of his task precludes continual beauty ; but it does not pre- clude continual ingenuity , force , originality . He had to treat of political questions , mixed modes , abstract ideas , and his fancy ( or poetry , if you will ) was ...
... nature of his task precludes continual beauty ; but it does not pre- clude continual ingenuity , force , originality . He had to treat of political questions , mixed modes , abstract ideas , and his fancy ( or poetry , if you will ) was ...
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... nature . " 1 This , it must be confessed , is very unlike Burke : yet Mr. Montgomery is a very pleasing poet , and a ... natural death , has no Coroner's 1 Sheffield Advertiser , Aug. 20 , 1822 . Inquest to sit upon him . All these are ...
... nature . " 1 This , it must be confessed , is very unlike Burke : yet Mr. Montgomery is a very pleasing poet , and a ... natural death , has no Coroner's 1 Sheffield Advertiser , Aug. 20 , 1822 . Inquest to sit upon him . All these are ...
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... Nature Morale et Intellectuelle . But the work which suggested the present Essay was , The Physiognomical System of Drs . Gall and Spurzheim , founded on an Anatomical and Physiological Examination of the Nervous System in general , and ...
... Nature Morale et Intellectuelle . But the work which suggested the present Essay was , The Physiognomical System of Drs . Gall and Spurzheim , founded on an Anatomical and Physiological Examination of the Nervous System in general , and ...
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... nature ; whereas in the former , any two impressions , that meet or are alike , join company , and then are parted again , with- out notice , like the froth from the wave . So in madness , there is , I should apprehend , the same ...
... nature ; whereas in the former , any two impressions , that meet or are alike , join company , and then are parted again , with- out notice , like the froth from the wave . So in madness , there is , I should apprehend , the same ...
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... nature , since we are asleep and building up imaginations of this sort half our time . " I had nothing to say against it : it was one of his con- jectural subtleties , in which he excels all the persons I ever knew ; but I had some ...
... nature , since we are asleep and building up imaginations of this sort half our time . " I had nothing to say against it : it was one of his con- jectural subtleties , in which he excels all the persons I ever knew ; but I had some ...
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