The Spirit of the Age, Or, Contemporary Portraits, Том 2 |
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Сторінка 12
The same object seen near strikes us more powerfully than at a distance : things
thrown into masses give a greater blow to the imagination than when scattered
and divided into their component parts . A number of mole - hills do not make a ...
The same object seen near strikes us more powerfully than at a distance : things
thrown into masses give a greater blow to the imagination than when scattered
and divided into their component parts . A number of mole - hills do not make a ...
Сторінка 34
Mr. Godwin gives no quarter to the amiable weaknesses of our nature , nor does
he stoop to avail himself of the supplementary aids of an imperfect virtue .
Gratitude , promises , friendship , family affection give way , not that they may be ...
Mr. Godwin gives no quarter to the amiable weaknesses of our nature , nor does
he stoop to avail himself of the supplementary aids of an imperfect virtue .
Gratitude , promises , friendship , family affection give way , not that they may be ...
Сторінка 203
But he sometimes takes a higher tone , and gives his mind fair play . ... and
declaring he would not give a rush for any landscape that did not express the
time of day , the climate , the period of the world it was meant to illustrate , or had
not this ...
But he sometimes takes a higher tone , and gives his mind fair play . ... and
declaring he would not give a rush for any landscape that did not express the
time of day , the climate , the period of the world it was meant to illustrate , or had
not this ...
Сторінка 347
His shifting his point of view from time to time not merely adds variety and greater
comforts to his topics ( so that the Political Register is an armoury and magazine
for all the materials and weapons of political warfare ) , but it gives a greater zest
...
His shifting his point of view from time to time not merely adds variety and greater
comforts to his topics ( so that the Political Register is an armoury and magazine
for all the materials and weapons of political warfare ) , but it gives a greater zest
...
Сторінка 370
He gives us discoloured paintings of life ; helpless , repining , unprofitable ,
unedifying distress . He is not a ... He professes historical fidelity ; but his vein is
not dramatic ; nor does he give us the pros and cons of that versatile gipsey ,
Nature .
He gives us discoloured paintings of life ; helpless , repining , unprofitable ,
unedifying distress . He is not a ... He professes historical fidelity ; but his vein is
not dramatic ; nor does he give us the pros and cons of that versatile gipsey ,
Nature .
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| Назва | The Spirit of the Age, Or, Contemporary Portraits, Том 2 |
| Автор | William Hazlitt |
| Видавець | Henry Colburn, 1825 |
| Оригінал із | Нью-Йоркська публічна бібліотека |
| Оцифровано | 15 груд. 2006 |
| Обсяг | 408 стор. |
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