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... extravagance that sets all common sense and serious concern at defiance . The To understand or define the ludicrous , we must first know what the serious is . Now the serious is the habitual stress which the mind lays upon the ...
... extravagance that sets all common sense and serious concern at defiance . The To understand or define the ludicrous , we must first know what the serious is . Now the serious is the habitual stress which the mind lays upon the ...
Page 186
... extravagance , that every breath that blew , that every wave that rolled to our shores , brought with it some accession to our knowledge , which was engrafted on the national genius . In fact , all the disposeable materials that had ...
... extravagance , that every breath that blew , that every wave that rolled to our shores , brought with it some accession to our knowledge , which was engrafted on the national genius . In fact , all the disposeable materials that had ...
Page 272
... extravagance , might argue the reliance of the author on the truth of feeling prompting him to hazard it ; but the whole scene is a forced transposition of that already alluded to in Marston's Malcontent . Even the form of the stage ...
... extravagance , might argue the reliance of the author on the truth of feeling prompting him to hazard it ; but the whole scene is a forced transposition of that already alluded to in Marston's Malcontent . Even the form of the stage ...
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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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