The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: The Round table. Characters of Shakespear's plays. A letter to William Gifford, esqJ. M. Dent & Company, 1902 |
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Pàgina 3
... answer to the question which has been asked , Why so few tyrants kill themselves ? first place , they are never satisfied with the mischief they have done , and cannot quit their hold of power , after all sense of pleasure is fled ...
... answer to the question which has been asked , Why so few tyrants kill themselves ? first place , they are never satisfied with the mischief they have done , and cannot quit their hold of power , after all sense of pleasure is fled ...
Pàgina 10
... answer itself . It is because so many excellent Comedies have been written , that there are none written at present . Comedy naturally wears itself out- destroys the very food on which it lives ; and by constantly and successfully ...
... answer itself . It is because so many excellent Comedies have been written , that there are none written at present . Comedy naturally wears itself out- destroys the very food on which it lives ; and by constantly and successfully ...
Pàgina 11
... answer , be it so : but at least we keep our follies to ourselves as much as possible— we palliate , shuffle , and equivocate with them - they sneak into by- corners , and do not , like Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims , march along the ...
... answer , be it so : but at least we keep our follies to ourselves as much as possible— we palliate , shuffle , and equivocate with them - they sneak into by- corners , and do not , like Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims , march along the ...
Pàgina 15
... answer for in his own person , and could not shift the responsibility to the heads of others . Mr. Kean's Richard was , therefore , we think , deficient in something of that regal jollity and reeling triumph of success which the part ...
... answer for in his own person , and could not shift the responsibility to the heads of others . Mr. Kean's Richard was , therefore , we think , deficient in something of that regal jollity and reeling triumph of success which the part ...
Pàgina 28
... answer - every thing about him denotes the utmost perplexity and dismay . The harmony and gradations of colour in this picture are uniformly preserved with the greatest nicety , and are well worthy the attention of the artist . No. 9 ...
... answer - every thing about him denotes the utmost perplexity and dismay . The harmony and gradations of colour in this picture are uniformly preserved with the greatest nicety , and are well worthy the attention of the artist . No. 9 ...
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The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: The Round table. Characters of ... William Hazlitt Visualització completa - 1902 |
The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: The Round table. Characters of ... William Hazlitt Visualització completa - 1902 |
The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: The Round table. Characters of ... William Hazlitt Visualització completa - 1902 |
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actor admiration affections answer Antony Apemantus appears beauty Beggar's Opera better Cæsar Caliban character circumstances comedy common contempt Coriolanus criticism CYMBELINE death delight Desdemona doth dream English equal Essays excited expression eyes Falstaff fame fancy fear feeling friends genius give grace habit Hamlet hath Hazlitt heart heaven Henry honour human Iago idea imagination indifference interest Julius Cæsar king lady Lear Leigh Hunt live look lord Lycidas Macbeth Malvolio manner means Midsummer Night's Dream Milton mind moral nature never objects opinion Othello painted painter Paradise Lost passage passion persons picture play pleasure poet poetry Prince principle reason refinement Regan Richard Richard II Round Table scene seems sense sentiment Shakespear shew soul speak spirit style sweet sympathy taste Tatler thee thing thought tion Titian true truth whole William Hazlitt words Wordsworth writer
Passatges populars
Pàgina 282 - Cover your heads and mock not flesh and blood With solemn reverence : throw away respect, Tradition, form and ceremonious duty, For you have but mistook me all this while : I live with bread like you, feel want, Taste grief, need friends : subjected thus, How can you say to me, I am a king ? Car.
Pàgina 223 - Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune, death and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell.
Pàgina 302 - The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
Pàgina 29 - Namancos and Bayona's hold ; Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth ! And, O ye dolphins, waft the hapless youth...
Pàgina 2 - tis no matter; Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on, how then ? Can honour set to a leg ? No. Or an arm ? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour ? What is that honour ? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it ? He that died o
Pàgina 186 - This was the noblest Roman of them all; All the conspirators save only he Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; He only, in a general honest thought, And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!
Pàgina 164 - Dis's waggon! daffodils That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath...
Pàgina 29 - Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart star sparely looks; Throw hither all your quaint enamelled eyes That on the green turf suck the honeyed showers, And purple all the ground with vernal flowers.
Pàgina 184 - O, you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, Knew you not Pompey? Many a time and oft Have you climb'd up to walls and battlements, To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops, Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The live-long day, with patient expectation, To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome...
Pàgina 282 - All murder'd: for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court; and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...