List of the Writings of William Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt: Chronologically Arranged with Notes, Descriptive, Critical, and Explanatory; and a Selection of Opinions Regarding Their Genius and Characteristics, by Distinguished Contemporaries and Friends as Well as by Subsequent Critics; Preceded by a Review Of, and Extracts From, Barry Cornwall's "Memorials of Charles Lamb;" with a Few Words on William Hazlitt and His Writings, and a Chronological List of the Works of Charles LambJohn Russell Smith, 1868 - 233 pàgines |
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List of the Writings of William Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt: Chronologically ... Alexander Ireland Visualització completa - 1868 |
List of the Writings of William Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt, Chronologically ... Alexander Ireland Visualització completa - 1868 |
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Pàgina 180 - THE OLD COURT SUBURB. BY LEIGH HUNT. " A delightful book, that will be welcome to all readers, and most welcome to those who have a love for the best kinds of reading.
Pàgina 36 - The Round Table, a collection of essays on literature, men and manners which were originally contributed to the Examiner.
Pàgina 4 - Keep to your bank, and the bank will keep you. Trust not to the public : you may hang, starve, drown yourself for anything that worthy personage cares. I bless every star that Providence, not seeing good to make me independent, has seen it next good to settle me upon the stable foundation of Leadenhall. Sit down, good BB, in the banking office : what!
Pàgina 198 - Sleepe after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.
Pàgina 3 - Throw yourself on the world without any rational plan of support, beyond what the chance employ of booksellers would afford you ! ! ! " Throw yourself rather, my dear Sir, from the steep Tarpeian rock slap-dash headlong upon iron spikes. If you had but five consolatory minutes between the desk and the bed, make much of them, and live a century in them, rather than turn slave to the Booksellers.
Pàgina 4 - I answered between surprise and gratitude, but it was understood that I accepted their proposal, and I was told that I was free from that hour to leave their service. I stammered out a bow, and at just ten minutes after eight I went home — for ever.
Pàgina 196 - For I have learned To look on Nature not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh, nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns And the round ocean, and the living air, And the blue sky, and in the mind of man...
Pàgina 17 - I should belie my own conscience, if I said less, than that I think WH to be, in his natural and healthy state, one of the wisest and finest spirits breathing. So far from being ashamed of that intimacy, which was betwixt us, it is my boast that I was able for so many years to have preserved it entire; and I think I shall go to my grave without finding, or expecting to find, such another companion.
Pàgina 34 - I have found in this writer more original thinking and observation, upon the several subjects that he has taken in hand, than in any other, not to say, than in all others put together.
Pàgina 9 - This saying was the beginning of a friendship between us, which I believe still continues.