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Genius was not become a vile and vulgar pretence , and they respected in others what they knew to be true inspiration in themselves . They courted the applause of the multitude , but came to one another for judgment and assistance .
Genius was not become a vile and vulgar pretence , and they respected in others what they knew to be true inspiration in themselves . They courted the applause of the multitude , but came to one another for judgment and assistance .
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This is true beauty and true sublimity : it is also true pathos and morality for it interests the mind , and affects it powerfully with the idea of glory tarnished , and happiness forfeited with the loss of virtue : but from the horns ...
This is true beauty and true sublimity : it is also true pathos and morality for it interests the mind , and affects it powerfully with the idea of glory tarnished , and happiness forfeited with the loss of virtue : but from the horns ...
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It is true , that in compendious treatises for practice , that form is not to be disallowed . But in the true handling of knowledge , men ought not to fall either on the one side into the vein of Velleius the Epicurean ; nil tam metuens ...
It is true , that in compendious treatises for practice , that form is not to be disallowed . But in the true handling of knowledge , men ought not to fall either on the one side into the vein of Velleius the Epicurean ; nil tam metuens ...
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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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