LITERARY
MEMORIES OF PAST READING-V
1.
Courage
and modesty are the old English virtues.---WILLIAM HAZLITT.----Literary Remains. February 1822.
2.
Between
the acting of a dreadful thing/And the first motion, all the interim is/Like a
phantasma, or a hideous dream. ----WILLIAM HAZLITT. Literary Remains. February 1822.
3.
ON
THE FEELING OF IMMORTALITY IN YOUTH. No
young man believes he shall ever die. It was a saying of my brother’s, and a
fine one. There is a feeling of eternity in youth, which makes us amends for
everything. To be young is to be as one of the immortal gods. One half of time
indeed is flown ---the other half remains in store for us with all its
countless treasures ; for there is no line drawn, and we see no limit to our
hopes and values and wishes. We make the coming age our own---
“The
vast, the unbounded prospect lies before us. “
Death, old age, are
words without a meaning, that pass by us like the idle air which we regard not.
Others may have undergone, or may still be liable to them ---we “bear a charmed
life,” which laughs to scorn all such silly fancies. As in setting out on a
delightful journey, we strain our eager gaze forward ---
“Bidding
the lovely scenes at distance hail,”—
And see no end to the landscape, new objects presenting themselves
as we advance; so, in the commencement of life, we set no bounds to our
inclinations, nor to the unrestricted opportunities of gratifying them. ----WILLIAM
HAZLITT. Literary Remains. 1827 .
4.
As
flies to wanton boys, are we to te gods’
They kill us for their sports.----WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616)
in the play King Lear , Act 4, Sc.1.
5.
What
a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! in form
and moving how express and admirable ! in action how like an angel! In apprehension
how like a god! the beauty of the world!
the paragon of animals.----WILLIAM
SHAKESPEARE in his play Hamlet, Act 2, Sc,2.
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G.R.Kanwal
3rd August2026
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