Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and ThingsWiley & Putnam, 1845 - 386 páginas |
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... critic as well as a con- noisseur . The conclusions he draws are clear and convincing , because they are taken from actual experience . He is not a fanatic , a dupe , or a slave : for the habit of seeing for himself also disposes him to ...
... critic as well as a con- noisseur . The conclusions he draws are clear and convincing , because they are taken from actual experience . He is not a fanatic , a dupe , or a slave : for the habit of seeing for himself also disposes him to ...
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... critic , who was finding fault with a picture , in which the other saw no blemish . Why so ? The idea which prevented him from admiring this inferior production was a higher idea of truth and beauty which was ever present with him , and ...
... critic , who was finding fault with a picture , in which the other saw no blemish . Why so ? The idea which prevented him from admiring this inferior production was a higher idea of truth and beauty which was ever present with him , and ...
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... Greek verse , but whether either is worth the trouble , he leaves to the critics . Does he understand " the act and practique part of life " better than " the theorique ? " No. He knows no liberal or mechanic 50 TABLE TALK .
... Greek verse , but whether either is worth the trouble , he leaves to the critics . Does he understand " the act and practique part of life " better than " the theorique ? " No. He knows no liberal or mechanic 50 TABLE TALK .
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... criticism , in judicial astrology , and in finding out the art of making gold ! What actual benefit do we reap from the writings of a Laud or a Whitgift , or of Bishop Bull or Bishop Waterland , or Prideaux ' Connections , or Beausobre ...
... criticism , in judicial astrology , and in finding out the art of making gold ! What actual benefit do we reap from the writings of a Laud or a Whitgift , or of Bishop Bull or Bishop Waterland , or Prideaux ' Connections , or Beausobre ...
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... criticism could be persuaded to think so . The historic painter does not neglect or contravene nature , but follows her more closely up into her fantastic heights , or hidden recesses . He demonstrates what she would be in conceivable ...
... criticism could be persuaded to think so . The historic painter does not neglect or contravene nature , but follows her more closely up into her fantastic heights , or hidden recesses . He demonstrates what she would be in conceivable ...
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Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things (Classic Reprint) William Hazlitt Sin vista previa disponible - 2019 |
Términos y frases comunes
actor admiration affect appearance artist beauty Beggar's Opera better character common Correggio criticism delight Della Cruscan Domenichino Edinburgh Review effeminacy Elgin marbles ESSAY excellence expression face fame fancy feeling game at chess genius give grace hand head heart human idea imagination interest king laugh learned less living look Lord Lord Byron Louvre manner matter means merit Michael Angelo mind monarch nature never Nicolas Poussin object once opinion ourselves pain painter painting pass passion Paul Veronese perhaps person picture picturesque play pleasure poet pretensions pride principle racter Raphael reason Rembrandt respect SECOND SERIES-PART sense sion Sonnets sort soul speak spirit striking style supposed talents talk taste thing thou thought thrown tion Titian truth turn understand vanity vulgar Whig whole wish wonder words write
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Página 144 - As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done : Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright : To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery.
Página 30 - To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run: How many make the hour full complete, How many hours bring about the day, How many days will finish up the year, How many years a mortal man may live. When this is known, then to divide the times: So many hours must I tend my flock; So many hours must I take my rest; So many hours must I contemplate; So many hours must I sport myself...
Página 30 - God ! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run: How many make the hour full complete; How many hours bring about the day ; How many days will finish up the year; How many years a mortal man may live.
Página 145 - O'er-run and trampled on: Then what they do in present, Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop yours : For time is like a fashionable host, That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand ; And with his arms out-stretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer : Welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing.
Página 27 - That heavy Saturn laugh'd and leap'd with him. Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue, Could make me any summer's story tell, Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew : Nor did I wonder at the...
Página 31 - LAWRENCE, of virtuous father virtuous son, Now that the fields are dank, and ways are mire, Where shall we sometimes meet, and by the fire Help waste a sullen day, what may be won From the hard season gaining? Time will run On smoother, till Favonius reinspire The frozen earth, and clothe in fresh attire The lily and rose, that neither sowed nor spun.
Página 31 - And lively cheer, of vigour born, The thoughtless day, the easy night, The spirits pure, the slumbers light That fly th
Página 30 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our Fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Página 88 - DUKE'S PALACE. [Enter DUKE, CURIO, LORDS; MUSICIANS attending.] DUKE. If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die.— That strain again;— it had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.— Enough; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
Página 32 - Purification in the old law did save, And such, as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind. Her face was...