 | William Hazlitt - 1907 - 312 pages
...; in the aberrations of his reason, we discover a mighty irregular power of reasoning, immethodised from the ordinary purposes of life, but exerting its...powers, as the wind blows where it listeth, at will on the corruptions and abuses of mankind. What have looks or tones to do with that sublime identification... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1871 - 1018 pages
...of reasoning, immethodised from the ordinary purposes of life, but exerting itself, as the wind Hows where it listeth, at will upon the corruptions and abuses of mankind. What have looks ttr tones (o do with that sublime identification of his age with ilin of the heavens thftitselres,... | |
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... infirmities and weakness, the impotence of rage; while we read it, we see not Lear, but we are Lear, — we are in his mind, we are sustained by a grandeur which baffles the malice of daughters and storms; in the aberrations of his reason, we discover... 
