The Collected Works of William Hazlitt 12
The Collected Works of William Hazlitt 12
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Fame and popularity are Ssparate quantities, having no common measure. A poet or painter now living may be as great as any poet or painter that ever did live ; and if he be so, he wifi be so thought of by future ages, but he cannot by the present. Persons of overweening vanity and shortsighted ambition, who would forestall the meed of fame, show themselves unworthy of it, for they reduce it to a level with the repuution they have already earned. They should surely leave something to look forwar...d to. It is weighing dross against gold — comparing a meteor with the polar star. Lord Byron's narrowness or presumption in this respect was remarkable.
371 TRIFLES LIGHT AS AIR What ! did he not hope to lire two hundred years hixaicl^ tkK should say it was merely a fashion to admire Milton and Shakips as it was the fashion to admire him? Those who cooo^i^ Walter Scott with Shakspeare do not know what thej are iasi, They may blunt the feeling with which we regard Shakspeare a: old and tried friend, though they cannot transfer it to Sir ^in Scott, who is, after all, but a new and dazzling aoauainunce.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Fame and popularity are Ssparate quantities, having no common measure. A poet or painter now living may be as great as any poet or painter that ever did live ; and if he be so, he wifi be so thought of by future ages, but he cannot by the present. Persons of overweening vanity and shortsighted ambition, who would forestall the meed of fame, show themselves unworthy of it, for they reduce it to a level with the repuution they have already earned. They should surely leave something to look forwar...d to. It is weighing dross against gold — comparing a meteor with the polar star. Lord Byron's narrowness or presumption in this respect was remarkable.
371 TRIFLES LIGHT AS AIR What ! did he not hope to lire two hundred years hixaicl^ tkK should say it was merely a fashion to admire Milton and Shakips as it was the fashion to admire him? Those who cooo^i^ Walter Scott with Shakspeare do not know what thej are iasi, They may blunt the feeling with which we regard Shakspeare a: old and tried friend, though they cannot transfer it to Sir ^in Scott, who is, after all, but a new and dazzling aoauainunce.
What to read after The Collected Works of William Hazlitt 12?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Hazlitt, William, 1778-1830 to read onlineMoreLess
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