The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Volume 6J. M. Dent and Sons, Limited, 1931 |
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Page 49
... learning , and to show their learning was their whole endeavour : but unluckily resolving to show it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry , they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than ...
... learning , and to show their learning was their whole endeavour : but unluckily resolving to show it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry , they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than ...
Page 207
... learning . - The intermediate comic parts , in which Faustus is not directly concerned , are mean and grovelling to the last degree . One of the Clowns says to another : Snails ! what hast got there ? A book ? Why thou can'st not tell ...
... learning . - The intermediate comic parts , in which Faustus is not directly concerned , are mean and grovelling to the last degree . One of the Clowns says to another : Snails ! what hast got there ? A book ? Why thou can'st not tell ...
Page 329
... learning , than one man's means can hold way with a common purse .'- This is finely put . It might be added , on the other hand , by way of caution , that neither can the wit or opinion of one learned man set itself up , as it sometimes ...
... learning , than one man's means can hold way with a common purse .'- This is finely put . It might be added , on the other hand , by way of caution , that neither can the wit or opinion of one learned man set itself up , as it sometimes ...
Contents
LECTURE I | 5 |
LECTURE II | 30 |
On Cowley Butler Suckling Etherege | 70 |
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