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JOHNSON thought Shakspeare's comedies better than his tragedies , and gives as a reason , that he was more at home in the one than in the other . That comedies should be written in a more easy and careless vein than tragedies , is but ...
JOHNSON thought Shakspeare's comedies better than his tragedies , and gives as a reason , that he was more at home in the one than in the other . That comedies should be written in a more easy and careless vein than tragedies , is but ...
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There is nothing remote in thought , or comprehensive in feeling . The whole is intensely personal and local : but the interest of the ideal and poetical style of art , relates to more permanent and universal objects ; and the ...
There is nothing remote in thought , or comprehensive in feeling . The whole is intensely personal and local : but the interest of the ideal and poetical style of art , relates to more permanent and universal objects ; and the ...
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They had the same faults and the same excellences ; the same strength and depth and richness , the same truth of character , passion , imagination , thought and language , thrown , heaped , massed ...
They had the same faults and the same excellences ; the same strength and depth and richness , the same truth of character , passion , imagination , thought and language , thrown , heaped , massed ...
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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 | Alfred Rayney Waller, Arnold Glover |
| Publisher | J. M. Dent and Sons, Limited, 1931 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 16 Jul 2007 |
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