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The most pungent ridicule , is that which is directed to mortify vanity , and to expose affectation ; but vanity and affectation , in their most exorbitant and studied excesses , are the ruling principles of society , only in a highly ...
The most pungent ridicule , is that which is directed to mortify vanity , and to expose affectation ; but vanity and affectation , in their most exorbitant and studied excesses , are the ruling principles of society , only in a highly ...
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There is nothing so tormenting as the affectation of ease and freedom from affectation . The ice being thus thawed , and the barrier that kept authors at a distance from common sense and feeling broken through , the transition was not ...
There is nothing so tormenting as the affectation of ease and freedom from affectation . The ice being thus thawed , and the barrier that kept authors at a distance from common sense and feeling broken through , the transition was not ...
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... that is , it has all the liveliness in the sketches of character , and smartness of common dialogue and repartee , without the tediousness of the story , and endless affectation of sentiment which disfigures the others .
... that is , it has all the liveliness in the sketches of character , and smartness of common dialogue and repartee , without the tediousness of the story , and endless affectation of sentiment which disfigures the others .
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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 California |
| Digitized | 16 Jul 2007 |
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