The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Volume 6J. M. Dent and Sons, Limited, 1931 |
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Page 38
... genius for comedy as any one ; but I may venture to say , that he had not the same artificial models and regulated mass of fashionable absurdity or elegance to work upon . The superiority of Shakspeare's natural genius for comedy cannot ...
... genius for comedy as any one ; but I may venture to say , that he had not the same artificial models and regulated mass of fashionable absurdity or elegance to work upon . The superiority of Shakspeare's natural genius for comedy cannot ...
Page 176
... genius at random , and at long fitful intervals , amidst the painted gew - gaws and foreign frippery of the reign of Charles II . and from which we are only now recovering the scattered fragments and broken images to erect a temple to ...
... genius at random , and at long fitful intervals , amidst the painted gew - gaws and foreign frippery of the reign of Charles II . and from which we are only now recovering the scattered fragments and broken images to erect a temple to ...
Page 326
... genius . ' High - way , since you my chief Parnassus be , And that my Muse ( to some ears not unsweet ) Tempers her words to trampling horses ' feet More oft than to a chamber melody ; Now blessed you bear onward blessed me To her ...
... genius . ' High - way , since you my chief Parnassus be , And that my Muse ( to some ears not unsweet ) Tempers her words to trampling horses ' feet More oft than to a chamber melody ; Now blessed you bear onward blessed me To her ...
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