The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Volume 6J. M. Dent and Sons, Limited, 1931 |
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Page 14
... pleasure from death . The strongest instances of effectual and harrowing imagination , are in the story of Amine and her three sisters , whom she led by her side as a leash of hounds , and of the goul who nibbled grains of rice for her ...
... pleasure from death . The strongest instances of effectual and harrowing imagination , are in the story of Amine and her three sisters , whom she led by her side as a leash of hounds , and of the goul who nibbled grains of rice for her ...
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... pleasure in making human nature look as mean , as ridiculous , and contemptible as possible . It is in this respect ... pleasure you take in witnessing them . Our later comic writers represent a state of manners , in which to be a man of ...
... pleasure in making human nature look as mean , as ridiculous , and contemptible as possible . It is in this respect ... pleasure you take in witnessing them . Our later comic writers represent a state of manners , in which to be a man of ...
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... pleasure ; and my only pleasure was to please this lady , ' - are alike admirable . The peremptory bluntness and exaggerated descriptions of Sir Sampson Legend are in a vein truly oriental , with a Shakespearian cast of language , and ...
... pleasure ; and my only pleasure was to please this lady , ' - are alike admirable . The peremptory bluntness and exaggerated descriptions of Sir Sampson Legend are in a vein truly oriental , with a Shakespearian cast of language , and ...
Contents
LECTURE I | 5 |
LECTURE II | 30 |
On Cowley Butler Suckling Etherege | 70 |
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