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... Muse in child - bearing . In his satirical descriptions he seldom stops short of the lowest and most offensive point of meanness ; and in his serious poetry he seems to repose with com- placency only on the pedantic and far - fetched ...
... Muse in child - bearing . In his satirical descriptions he seldom stops short of the lowest and most offensive point of meanness ; and in his serious poetry he seems to repose with com- placency only on the pedantic and far - fetched ...
Page 58
... Muse , of ' marching the Muse's Hannibal ' into undiscovered regions . That is , he thinks first of being a leader in poetry , and then he im- mediately , by virtue of this abstraction , becomes a Hannibal ; though no two things can ...
... Muse , of ' marching the Muse's Hannibal ' into undiscovered regions . That is , he thinks first of being a leader in poetry , and then he im- mediately , by virtue of this abstraction , becomes a Hannibal ; though no two things can ...
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... Muse does not point , as she was wont , at the peculiarities of our gait and gesture , and exhibit the picturesque contrasts of our dress and costume , in all that graceful variety in which she delights . The genuine source of comic ...
... Muse does not point , as she was wont , at the peculiarities of our gait and gesture , and exhibit the picturesque contrasts of our dress and costume , in all that graceful variety in which she delights . The genuine source of comic ...
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| Title | The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Volume 6 The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Percival Presland Howe |
| Author | William Hazlitt |
| Editors | Percival Presland Howe, Alfred Rayney Waller, Arnold Glover |
| Compiled by | James Thornton |
| Publisher | J. M. Dent and Sons, Limited, 1931 |
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