A Group of English Essayists of the Early Nineteenth Century
A Group of English Essayists of the Early Nineteenth Century
Caleb Thomas Winchester
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He likes to expose the unfamiliar side of some familiar truth, to break up our self-satisfied common- place, to explode a paradox under some smug pro- priety. He has in memory rich stores of example, and he constantly enlivens an abstract discussion with some shrewd bit of observation or bright gleam of fancy. In this subtle, imaginative, half- cynical philosophy of everyday life no other Eng- lish essayist is so great a master. His pages sparkle with truths of character and conduct cast into s...triking aphorisms or epigrams, often with an edge of satire. "We enjoy a friend's society only in proportion as he is satisfied with ours. " "To look down upon anything seemingly implies a greater elevation and enlargement of view than to look up to it. " 68 WILLIAM HAZLITT "An excess of modesty is, in effect, an excess of pride. " " Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken by it. " "A woman's attachment to her husband is not to be suspected if she will allow no one to abuse him but herself.
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