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 , bet 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 , bet shewn in compliments as well as satire ...
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... admiration or passion . The general forms and aggregate masses of our ideas must be brought more into play , to give weight and magni- tude . Imagination may be said to be the finding out something similar in things generally alike , or ...
... admiration or passion . The general forms and aggregate masses of our ideas must be brought more into play , to give weight and magni- tude . Imagination may be said to be the finding out something similar in things generally alike , or ...
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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 ...
Contents
LECTURE I | 5 |
LECTURE II | 30 |
On Cowley Butler Suckling Etherege | 70 |
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