The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Volume 6J. M. Dent and Sons, Limited, 1931 |
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... admiration or wean our affections from that which is lofty and impressive , instead of producing a more intense admiration and exalted passion , as poetry does . Wit may sometimes , indeed , be shewn in compliments as well as satire ...
... admiration or wean our affections from that which is lofty and impressive , instead of producing a more intense admiration and exalted passion , as poetry does . Wit may sometimes , indeed , be shewn in compliments as well as satire ...
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... admiration of , a whole host of able writers of our own , who are suffered to moulder in obscurity on the shelves of our libraries , with a decent reservation of one or two top - names , that are cried up for form's sake , and to save ...
... admiration of , a whole host of able writers of our own , who are suffered to moulder in obscurity on the shelves of our libraries , with a decent reservation of one or two top - names , that are cried up for form's sake , and to save ...
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... admiring gaze of the vulgar . This last circumstance could hardly have afforded so much advantage to the poets of that ... admiration of the world and posterity , that excellence of which the idea exists hitherto only in its own breast ...
... admiring gaze of the vulgar . This last circumstance could hardly have afforded so much advantage to the poets of that ... admiration of the world and posterity , that excellence of which the idea exists hitherto only in its own breast ...
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