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And to speak truly , ' he adds , ' Antiquitas seculi juventus`mundi . These times are the ancient times when the world is ancient ; and not those which we count ancient ordine retrogrado , by a computation backwards from ourselves .
And to speak truly , ' he adds , ' Antiquitas seculi juventus`mundi . These times are the ancient times when the world is ancient ; and not those which we count ancient ordine retrogrado , by a computation backwards from ourselves .
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This consisted , I apprehend , in the introduction of persons on the stage , speaking , feeling , and acting according to nature , that is , according to the impression of given circumstances on the passions and mind of man in those ...
This consisted , I apprehend , in the introduction of persons on the stage , speaking , feeling , and acting according to nature , that is , according to the impression of given circumstances on the passions and mind of man in those ...
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are different things : actions do not always speak the character any more than words . We feel this , and do justice to the romantic extravagance of the German Muse . In Germany , where this outré style of treating every thing ...
are different things : actions do not always speak the character any more than words . We feel this , and do justice to the romantic extravagance of the German Muse . In Germany , where this outré style of treating every thing ...
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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 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 6 Jul 2009 |
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