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... passages in which we foretaste themasterly proseofHazlitt's later Essays, Ifind inthebook three merits which, as I study it, more and more efface that first impression of flimsiness. (1) To begin with, Hazlitt had hold of theright end ...
... passages in which we foretaste themasterly proseofHazlitt's later Essays, Ifind inthebook three merits which, as I study it, more and more efface that first impression of flimsiness. (1) To begin with, Hazlitt had hold of theright end ...
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... passages ofthe plays themselves, ofwhich Schlegel's work,fromthe extensiveness of hisplan, did not admit. Wewillatthe same time confess, that somelittle jealousy ofthecharacter of the national understanding was not withoutitsshare in ...
... passages ofthe plays themselves, ofwhich Schlegel's work,fromthe extensiveness of hisplan, did not admit. Wewillatthe same time confess, that somelittle jealousy ofthecharacter of the national understanding was not withoutitsshare in ...
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... passages,though, comparatively speaking, very few, where his poetry exceeds the bounds of true dialogue, where a too soaring imagination, a too luxuriant wit, rendered the complete dramatic forgetfulness of himself impossible. With this ...
... passages,though, comparatively speaking, very few, where his poetry exceeds the bounds of true dialogue, where a too soaring imagination, a too luxuriant wit, rendered the complete dramatic forgetfulness of himself impossible. With this ...
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... feeling ofthe beauty of the passages here referred to. A stately commonplace, such asCongreve's description of a ruininThe Mourning Bride, would have answered Johnson's purpose just as well, or better than the first;
... feeling ofthe beauty of the passages here referred to. A stately commonplace, such asCongreve's description of a ruininThe Mourning Bride, would have answered Johnson's purpose just as well, or better than the first;
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... . There is amoral senseinthe proud beauty of this last image, a rich surfeit of the fancy,—as that well—known passage beginning,'Me of mylawful pleasure she restrained, and prayed me oft forbearance,' sets a keener edge.
... . There is amoral senseinthe proud beauty of this last image, a rich surfeit of the fancy,—as that well—known passage beginning,'Me of mylawful pleasure she restrained, and prayed me oft forbearance,' sets a keener edge.
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