The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Lectures on the English poets and on the dramatic literature of the age of Elizabeth, etcJ. M. Dent & Company, 1902 |
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... Chaucer and Spenser • LECTURE II . LECTURE III . PAGE I 19 On Shakspeare and Milton • 44 LECTURE IV . On Dryden and Pope 68 LECTURE V. On Thomson and Cowper 85 LECTURE VI . On Swift , Young , Gray , Collins , etc. 104 LECTURE VII . On ...
... Chaucer and Spenser • LECTURE II . LECTURE III . PAGE I 19 On Shakspeare and Milton • 44 LECTURE IV . On Dryden and Pope 68 LECTURE V. On Thomson and Cowper 85 LECTURE VI . On Swift , Young , Gray , Collins , etc. 104 LECTURE VII . On ...
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... Chaucer , went on his way sounding always the increase of his winning . ' Every prose - writer has more or less of rhythmical adaptation , except poets , who , when deprived of the regular mechanism of verse , seem to have no principle ...
... Chaucer , went on his way sounding always the increase of his winning . ' Every prose - writer has more or less of rhythmical adaptation , except poets , who , when deprived of the regular mechanism of verse , seem to have no principle ...
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... confirmation of that feeling which makes him so often complain , ' Roll on , ye dark brown years , ye bring no joy on your wing to Ossian ! ' LECTURE II ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER HAVING , in the 18 LECTURES ON THE ENGLISH POETS.
... confirmation of that feeling which makes him so often complain , ' Roll on , ye dark brown years , ye bring no joy on your wing to Ossian ! ' LECTURE II ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER HAVING , in the 18 LECTURES ON THE ENGLISH POETS.
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... Chaucer and Spenser , two out of four of the greatest names in poetry , which this country has to boast . Both of them , however , were much indebted to the early poets of Italy , and ... CHAUCER AND SPENSER LECTURE II On Chaucer and Spenser.
... Chaucer and Spenser , two out of four of the greatest names in poetry , which this country has to boast . Both of them , however , were much indebted to the early poets of Italy , and ... CHAUCER AND SPENSER LECTURE II On Chaucer and Spenser.
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... Chaucer's mind and restless impatience of his character , and the tone of his writings . Yet it would be too much to attribute the one to the other as cause and effect : for Spenser , whose poetical tempera- ment was an effeminate as ...
... Chaucer's mind and restless impatience of his character , and the tone of his writings . Yet it would be too much to attribute the one to the other as cause and effect : for Spenser , whose poetical tempera- ment was an effeminate as ...
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Page 166 - Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother : They parted — ne'er to meet again ! But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining — They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs which had been rent asunder ; A dreary sea now flows between, But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been.
Page 10 - I have almost forgot the taste of fears. The time has been, my senses would have cool'd To hear a night-shriek ; and my fell of hair, Would at a dismal treatise rouse, and stir, As life were in't. I have supp'd full with horrors : Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot once start me.
Page 72 - Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the Sun, her Eyes the Gazers strike, And, like the Sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful Ease, and Sweetness void of Pride, Might hide her Faults, if Belles had Faults to hide : If to her share some Female Errors fall, Look on her Face, and you'll forget 'em all.
Page 10 - 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.
Page 58 - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that eternal spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 82 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily; when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards and found her there.
Page 64 - 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?
Page 314 - To his Coy Mistress Had we but world enough and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime. We would sit down and think which way To walk and pass our long love's day. Thou by the Indian Ganges' side Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide Of Huraber would complain.
Page 188 - 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.
Page 114 - tis madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.