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To him an excess of beauty was a fault ; for it appeared to him like an excrescence ; and his imagination was dazzled by the blaze of light . His writings neither shone with the beams of native genius , nor reflected them .
To him an excess of beauty was a fault ; for it appeared to him like an excrescence ; and his imagination was dazzled by the blaze of light . His writings neither shone with the beams of native genius , nor reflected them .
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Shakspeare's bold and happy lights of imagination were equally thrown away upon our author . He was not only without any particular fineness of organic sensibility , alive to all the “ mighty world of ear and eye , ” which is necessary ...
Shakspeare's bold and happy lights of imagination were equally thrown away upon our author . He was not only without any particular fineness of organic sensibility , alive to all the “ mighty world of ear and eye , ” which is necessary ...
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That I might touchBut kiss , one kiss — ' Tis her breathing that Perfumes the chamber thus : the flame o ' th ' taper Bows toward her , and would under - peep her lids To see th ' enclosed lights now canopied Under the windows , white ...
That I might touchBut kiss , one kiss — ' Tis her breathing that Perfumes the chamber thus : the flame o ' th ' taper Bows toward her , and would under - peep her lids To see th ' enclosed lights now canopied Under the windows , white ...
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“ Light thickens and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood . ... The lights and shades are laid on with a determined hand ; the transitions from iriumph to despair , from the height of terror to the repose of death , are sudden and ...
“ Light thickens and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood . ... The lights and shades are laid on with a determined hand ; the transitions from iriumph to despair , from the height of terror to the repose of death , are sudden and ...
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BegoneRun to your houses , fall upon your knees , Pray to the Gods to intermit the plague , That needs must light on this ingratitude . ” The well - known dialogue between Brutus and Cassius , in which the latter breaks the design of ...
BegoneRun to your houses , fall upon your knees , Pray to the Gods to intermit the plague , That needs must light on this ingratitude . ” The well - known dialogue between Brutus and Cassius , in which the latter breaks the design of ...
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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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