The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Volume 4J. M. Dent and Sons, Limited, 1930 - 408 pages |
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Page 123
... affections callous , and the eye dull . Man left to him- self soon degenerates into a very disagreeable person . Ignorance is always bad enough ; but rustic ignorance is intolerable . Aristotle has observed , that tragedy purifies the ...
... affections callous , and the eye dull . Man left to him- self soon degenerates into a very disagreeable person . Ignorance is always bad enough ; but rustic ignorance is intolerable . Aristotle has observed , that tragedy purifies the ...
Page 180
... affections for support , so well as Shakespear no one ever so well painted natural tenderness free from affectation and disguise - no one else ever so well shewed how delicacy and timidity , when driven to extremity , grow romantic and ...
... affections for support , so well as Shakespear no one ever so well painted natural tenderness free from affectation and disguise - no one else ever so well shewed how delicacy and timidity , when driven to extremity , grow romantic and ...
Page 200
... affections by terror and pity . That is , it substitutes imaginary sympathy for mere selfishness . It gives us a high and permanent interest , beyond ourselves , in humanity as such . It raises the great , the remote , and the possible ...
... affections by terror and pity . That is , it substitutes imaginary sympathy for mere selfishness . It gives us a high and permanent interest , beyond ourselves , in humanity as such . It raises the great , the remote , and the possible ...
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