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" There are moments in the life of a solitary thinker which are to him what the evening of some great victory is to the conqueror and hero — milder triumphs long remembered with truer and deeper delight. And though the shouts of multitudes do not hail... "
An Essay on the Principles of Human Action: Being an Argument in Favour of ... - Page 133
by William Hazlitt - 1805 - 263 pages
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William Hazlitt

Augustine Birrell - Literary Criticism - 1902 - 258 pages
...not innate — that seems to \ be the discovery. The passage Southey admired runs as follows : — " There are moments in the life of a solitary thinker...of some great victory is to the conqueror and hero — though milder triumphs are long remembered with truer and deeper delight. And though the shouts...
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William Hazlitt

Augustine Birrell - 1902 - 264 pages
...selfishness is not innate — that seems to be the discovery. The passage Southey admired ran as follows: — "There are moments in the life of a solitary thinker...evening of some great victory is to the conqueror and hero'—-though milder triumphs are long remembered with truer and deeper delight. And though the shouts...
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William Hazlitt

Augustine Birrell - Literary Criticism - 1902 - 268 pages
...innate — that seems to be the discovery. The passage Southey admired runs as follows : — •. " There are moments in the life of a solitary thinker...him what the evening of some great victory is to the fci conqueror and hero — though milder triumphs are long rememhered with truer and deeper delight....
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Just Human

Frank Crane - Conduct of life - 1915 - 268 pages
...intoxicated, for he shall live poetry. I find this splendid passage in Hazlitt: "There are moment's in the life of a solitary thinker which are to him...evening of some great victory is to the conquero'r." And this in Douglas Jerrold: "He alone who has for months and years lived upon great imaginings, whose...
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Metaphysical Hazlitt: Bicentenary Essays

Uttara Natarajan, Tom Paulin, Duncan Wu - Literary Collections - 2005 - 216 pages
...happier attitude, the larger hope and sense of achievement, that he wrote into his favourite work: There are moments in the life of a solitary thinker...truer and deeper delight. And though the shouts of the multitudes do not hail his success, though gay trophies, though the sounds of music, the glittering...
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