Hazlitt on English Literature: An Introduction to the Appreciation of LiteratureOxford University Press, 1913 - 441 Seiten |
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... Chaucer and Spenser to Wordsworth and Byron , prose sacred and profane from Bacon and Jeremy . Taylor to Burke and Edward Irving , the drama in its two flourishing periods , the familiar essay from Steele and Addison to Lamb and Leigh ...
... Chaucer and Spenser to Wordsworth and Byron , prose sacred and profane from Bacon and Jeremy . Taylor to Burke and Edward Irving , the drama in its two flourishing periods , the familiar essay from Steele and Addison to Lamb and Leigh ...
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... Chaucer , Spenser , and Milton in the sharp epigrammatic manner reminding one of Hazlitt . In the concluding pages of the essay on Spenser we are also kept in a reminiscent mood , till Lowell tells us that " to read him is like dreaming ...
... Chaucer , Spenser , and Milton in the sharp epigrammatic manner reminding one of Hazlitt . In the concluding pages of the essay on Spenser we are also kept in a reminiscent mood , till Lowell tells us that " to read him is like dreaming ...
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... Chaucer , was engaged in active life ; but the genius of his poetry was not active : it is inspired by the love of ease , and relaxation from all the cares and business of life . Of all the poets , he is the most poetical . Though much ...
... Chaucer , was engaged in active life ; but the genius of his poetry was not active : it is inspired by the love of ease , and relaxation from all the cares and business of life . Of all the poets , he is the most poetical . Though much ...
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... Chaucer's , and is enriched and adorned with phrases borrowed from the different languages of Europe , both ancient and modern . He was , probably , seduced into a certain license of ex- pression by the difficulty of filling up the ...
... Chaucer's , and is enriched and adorned with phrases borrowed from the different languages of Europe , both ancient and modern . He was , probably , seduced into a certain license of ex- pression by the difficulty of filling up the ...
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... Chaucer , Spenser , Shakspeare , and Milton . There are no others that can really be put in competition with these ... Chaucer excels as the poet of manners , or of real life ; Spenser , as the poet of romance ; Shakspeare , as the poet ...
... Chaucer , Spenser , Shakspeare , and Milton . There are no others that can really be put in competition with these ... Chaucer excels as the poet of manners , or of real life ; Spenser , as the poet of romance ; Shakspeare , as the poet ...
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admiration affectation Age of Elizabeth appeared beauty Beggar's Opera better Burke character Chaucer Coleridge Coleridge's comedy criticism CYMBELINE delight dramatic dream Edinburgh Review English equal Essays expression Faerie Queene Falstaff fancy feeling French genius give Hamlet Hazlitt heart heaven human humour Iago idea imagination impression John Julius Cæsar Lamb lecture literary literature living look Lord Byron Macbeth manner Midsummer Night's Dream Milton mind moral Muse nature never object opinion Othello Paradise Lost passage passion person philosopher play pleasure poem poet poetical poetry political Pope prejudice principles prose reader reason romantic scene seems sense sentiment Shakspeare Shakspeare's shew soul sound Spenser spirit style sweet Table Talk taste Tatler things thou thought tion Tom Jones tragedy translation Troilus and Cressida truth verse William Hazlitt words Wordsworth writer
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 91 - He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
Seite 88 - Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Seite 216 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Seite 77 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Seite lvii - Your face, my thane, is as a book, where men May read strange matters : — To beguile the time, Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it.
Seite 94 - ... In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half -hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repaired with straw, With tape-tied curtains never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas ! how changed from him, That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim ! Gallant and gay, in Cliveden's proud alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love ; Or just as gay at council, in a ring...
Seite 36 - I have lived long enough : my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf ; And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Seite 186 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Seite 5 - How noble in reason! how infinite in faculties, in form and moving, how express and admirable in action, how like an angel in apprehension, how like a god ! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me; no, nor woman neither, though, by your smiling, you seem to say so.
Seite 81 - And vapour as the Libyan air adust Began to parch that temperate clime; whereat In either hand the hast'ning angel caught Our ling'ring parents, and to th' eastern gate Led them direct, and down the cliff as fast To the subjected plain,— then disappear'd. They looking back, all th...