Hazlitt
Cited as Hazlitt. — 25 quotations
Affect
Do not affect the society of your inferiors in rank, nor court that of the great.
Cavalier
The plodding, persevering scupulous accuracy of the one, and the easy, cavalier, verbal fluency of the other, form a complete contrast.
Decompound
It divides and decompounds objects into . . . parts.
Derogate
Would Charles X. derogate from his ancestors? Would he be the degenerate scion of that royal line?
Discursive
The power he [Shakespeare] delights to show is not intense, but discursive.
dissipate
The extreme tendency of civilization is to dissipate all intellectual energy.
Egotism
His excessive egotism, which filled all objects with himself.
Feel
To intercept and have a more kindly feel of its genial warmth.
Finical
The gross style consists in giving no detail, the finical in giving nothing else.
Fortuitous
So as to throw a glancing and fortuitous light upon the whole.
Grace
Grace in women gains the affections sooner, and secures them longer, than any thing else.
Hand
I was always reckoned a lively hand at a simile.
Hold
His imagination holds immediately from nature.
Indifferency
Moral liberty . . . does not, after all, consist in a power of indifferency, or in a power of choosing without regard to motives.
Liberal
I confess I see nothing liberal in this “ order of thoughts,” as Hobbes elsewhere expresses it.
Liking
Would he be the degenerate scion of that royal line . . . to be a king on liking and on sufferance?
Mannered
His style is in some degree mannered and confined.
Muddle
They muddle it [money] away without method or object, and without having anything to show for it.
Muster
One of those who can muster up sufficient sprightliness to engage in a game of forfeits.
Skim
Homer describes Mercury as flinging himself from the top of Olympus, and skimming the surface of the ocean.
Stickle
The obstinacy with which he stickles for the wrong.
Stultify
The modern sciolist stultifies all understanding but his own, and that which he conceives like his own.
Substantive
Strength and magnitude are qualities which impress the imagination in a powerful and substantive manner.
Touch
Eyes La touch of Sir Peter Lely in them.
Unction
The delightful equivoque and unction of the passage in Farquhar.