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... the press or the lecture - room , the literary association or mechanics ' institute , we much of the immediate spring and impulse of the power which is now so happily producing power , to the force and life of Hazlitt's writings .
... the press or the lecture - room , the literary association or mechanics ' institute , we much of the immediate spring and impulse of the power which is now so happily producing power , to the force and life of Hazlitt's writings .
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... the press or the lecture - room , the literary association or mechanics ' institute , we much of the immediate spring and impulse of the power which is now so happily producing power , to the force and life of Hazlitt's writings .
... the press or the lecture - room , the literary association or mechanics ' institute , we much of the immediate spring and impulse of the power which is now so happily producing power , to the force and life of Hazlitt's writings .
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To a mere literal and formal apprehension , the inimitably characteristic epithet " violets dim , " must seem to imply a defect , rather than a beauty ; and to any one , not feeling the full force of that epithet , which suggests an ...
To a mere literal and formal apprehension , the inimitably characteristic epithet " violets dim , " must seem to imply a defect , rather than a beauty ; and to any one , not feeling the full force of that epithet , which suggests an ...
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... truant to the affections , and taught by the force of feeling when to forego the forms of propriety for the essence of it . His women are in this respect exquisite logicians ; for there is nothing so logical as passion .
... truant to the affections , and taught by the force of feeling when to forego the forms of propriety for the essence of it . His women are in this respect exquisite logicians ; for there is nothing so logical as passion .
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... not from design , but from the force of natural association , a particular train of feeling suggesting dif ferent inflections of the same predominant principle , melting into , and strengthening one another , like chords in music .
... not from design , but from the force of natural association , a particular train of feeling suggesting dif ferent inflections of the same predominant principle , melting into , and strengthening one another , like chords in music .
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| Title | Characters of Shakespeare's Plays Wiley & Putnam's library of choice reading |
| Author | William Hazlitt |
| Publisher | Wiley and Putnam, 1845 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 5 Nov 2007 |
| Length | 229 pages |
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