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Page 135
The vacant stillness , the docility to vice , the premature suppression of youthful sensibility , the doll - like mechanism of the whole figure , which seems to have no other feeling but a sickly sense of pain- shew the deepest insight ...
The vacant stillness , the docility to vice , the premature suppression of youthful sensibility , the doll - like mechanism of the whole figure , which seems to have no other feeling but a sickly sense of pain- shew the deepest insight ...
Page 241
Nothing can be imagined finer than the whole conduct and conception of this scene , than her scorn of her accusers and of herself . The sincerity of her sense of guilt triumphs over the hypocrisy of their affected and official contempt ...
Nothing can be imagined finer than the whole conduct and conception of this scene , than her scorn of her accusers and of herself . The sincerity of her sense of guilt triumphs over the hypocrisy of their affected and official contempt ...
Page 253
That that whole armies , nay , whole nations , Many and mighty kings , have been struck blind at , And fled before , wing'd with their fear and terrors , That steel War waited ...
That that whole armies , nay , whole nations , Many and mighty kings , have been struck blind at , And fled before , wing'd with their fear and terrors , That steel War waited ...
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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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