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... a funeral , or a wedding . What an excellent old custom was that of throwing the stocking ! What a deal of innocent mirth has been spoiled by the disuse of it ! -It is not an easy matter to preserve decorum in courts of ...
... a funeral , or a wedding . What an excellent old custom was that of throwing the stocking ! What a deal of innocent mirth has been spoiled by the disuse of it ! -It is not an easy matter to preserve decorum in courts of ...
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The matter is the same : but how different is the manner ! The one gives fair - play to nature and his own genius , while the other trusts almost entirely to imitation and custom . Shakspeare takes his groundwork in individual character ...
The matter is the same : but how different is the manner ! The one gives fair - play to nature and his own genius , while the other trusts almost entirely to imitation and custom . Shakspeare takes his groundwork in individual character ...
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In the one , the spark of genius seems to have met with its congenial matter : the shaft is sped ; the forked lightning dresses up the face of nature in ghastly smiles , and the loud thunder rolls far away from the ruin that is made .
In the one , the spark of genius seems to have met with its congenial matter : the shaft is sped ; the forked lightning dresses up the face of nature in ghastly smiles , and the loud thunder rolls far away from the ruin that is made .
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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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