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Finally , I will not say that he had not as great a natural genius for comedy as any one ; but I may venture to say , that he had not the same artificial models and regulated mass of fashionable absurdity or elegance to work upon .
Finally , I will not say that he had not as great a natural genius for comedy as any one ; but I may venture to say , that he had not the same artificial models and regulated mass of fashionable absurdity or elegance to work upon .
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They went out one by one unnoticed , like evening lights ; or were swallowed up in the headlong torrent of puritanic zeal which succeeded , and swept away every thing in its unsparing course , throwing up the wrecks of taste and genius ...
They went out one by one unnoticed , like evening lights ; or were swallowed up in the headlong torrent of puritanic zeal which succeeded , and swept away every thing in its unsparing course , throwing up the wrecks of taste and genius ...
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It is to the High Way where his mistress had passed , a strange subject , but not unsuitable to the author's genius . ' High - way , since you my chief Parnassus be , And that my Muse ( to some ears not unsweet ) Tempers her words to ...
It is to the High Way where his mistress had passed , a strange subject , but not unsuitable to the author's genius . ' High - way , since you my chief Parnassus be , And that my Muse ( to some ears not unsweet ) Tempers her words to ...
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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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