The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Volume 6J. M. Dent and Sons, Limited, 1931 |
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Page 35
... affectation ; but vanity and affectation , in their most exorbitant and studied excesses , are the ruling principles of society , only in a highly advanced state of civilisation and manners . Man can hardly be said to be a truly ...
... affectation ; but vanity and affectation , in their most exorbitant and studied excesses , are the ruling principles of society , only in a highly advanced state of civilisation and manners . Man can hardly be said to be a truly ...
Page 37
... affectation of the manners and conversation of fashionable life , and before the distinction between rusticity and elegance , art and nature , was lost ( as it afterwards was ) in a general diffusion of knowledge , and the reciprocal ...
... affectation of the manners and conversation of fashionable life , and before the distinction between rusticity and elegance , art and nature , was lost ( as it afterwards was ) in a general diffusion of knowledge , and the reciprocal ...
Page 143
... affectation verging into idiotism , or of languid sensibility , that might— ' Die of a rose in aromatic pain . ' In short , Hogarth was a painter , not of low but of actual life ; and the ridiculous and prominent features of high or low ...
... affectation verging into idiotism , or of languid sensibility , that might— ' Die of a rose in aromatic pain . ' In short , Hogarth was a painter , not of low but of actual life ; and the ridiculous and prominent features of high or low ...
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