The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Volume 6J. M. Dent and Sons, Limited, 1931 |
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Page 227
... grace ; but especially before so instructing a wisdom as that of your Excellency . ' The garrulous self - complacency of this old lord is kept up in a vein of pleasant humour ; an instance of which might be given in his owning of some ...
... grace ; but especially before so instructing a wisdom as that of your Excellency . ' The garrulous self - complacency of this old lord is kept up in a vein of pleasant humour ; an instance of which might be given in his owning of some ...
Page 249
... grace or striking feature ; they are masters of style and versification in almost every variety of melting modulation or sounding pomp , of which they are capable : in comic wit and spirit , they are scarcely surpassed by any writers of ...
... grace or striking feature ; they are masters of style and versification in almost every variety of melting modulation or sounding pomp , of which they are capable : in comic wit and spirit , they are scarcely surpassed by any writers of ...
Page 265
... grace is merely but lip - good , And that , no longer than he airs himself Abroad in public , there to seem to shun The strokes and stripes of flatterers , which within Are lechery unto him , and so feed His brutish sense with their ...
... grace is merely but lip - good , And that , no longer than he airs himself Abroad in public , there to seem to shun The strokes and stripes of flatterers , which within Are lechery unto him , and so feed His brutish sense with their ...
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LECTURE I | 5 |
LECTURE II | 30 |
On Cowley Butler Suckling Etherege | 70 |
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