The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things, Band 2Henry Colburn, 1826 - 472 Seiten |
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... greater enlargement of comprehension or susceptibility of taste , which ( as far as the trammels of custom and routine of business are concerned ) only operate as diversions to our ensuring the main- chance ; and , even in the pursuit ...
... greater enlargement of comprehension or susceptibility of taste , which ( as far as the trammels of custom and routine of business are concerned ) only operate as diversions to our ensuring the main- chance ; and , even in the pursuit ...
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... greater than the Paradise Lost ; it was just big enough to fill that mighty mould ; the shrine contained the Godhead . Shakes- pear's genius was , I should say , greater than any thing he has done , because it still soared free and ...
... greater than the Paradise Lost ; it was just big enough to fill that mighty mould ; the shrine contained the Godhead . Shakes- pear's genius was , I should say , greater than any thing he has done , because it still soared free and ...
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... greater contempt for you , and grows more captious and uneasy . The more you strive to merit his good word , the farther you are from it . Such characters will not only sneer at your well - meant endea- vours , and kept silent as to ...
... greater contempt for you , and grows more captious and uneasy . The more you strive to merit his good word , the farther you are from it . Such characters will not only sneer at your well - meant endea- vours , and kept silent as to ...
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... the disguises of royalty , nobility , gentry have been in some measure seen through we have become individually of little importance , compared with greater ob jects , in the eyes of our neighbours , and 58 ON THE LOOK OF A GENTLEMAN .
... the disguises of royalty , nobility , gentry have been in some measure seen through we have become individually of little importance , compared with greater ob jects , in the eyes of our neighbours , and 58 ON THE LOOK OF A GENTLEMAN .
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... greater prose - writers than Burke , they either lie out of my course of study , or are beyond my sphere of comprehension . I am too old to be a convert to a new mythology of genius . The niches are occupied , the tables are full . If ...
... greater prose - writers than Burke , they either lie out of my course of study , or are beyond my sphere of comprehension . I am too old to be a convert to a new mythology of genius . The niches are occupied , the tables are full . If ...
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Seite 43 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Seite 313 - Yet nature is made better by no mean But nature makes that mean : so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Seite 14 - As a sick girl. Ye gods ! it doth amaze me A man of such a feeble temper should So get the start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone.
Seite 268 - O'er a' the ills o' life victorious! But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever; Or like the borealis race That flit ere you can point their place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. Nae man can tether time or tide; The hour approaches Tam maun ride; That hour, o...
Seite 339 - Merciful heaven! What, man! ne'er pull your hat upon your brows; Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.
Seite 420 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face, You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve : Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Seite 291 - Piety displays Her mouldering roll, the piercing eye explores New manners, and the pomp of elder days, Whence culls the pensive bard his pictured stores. Nor rough nor barren are the winding ways Of hoar Antiquity, but strewn with flowers.
Seite 268 - DUKE'S PALACE. [Enter DUKE, CURIO, LORDS; MUSICIANS attending.] DUKE. If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die.— That strain again;— it had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.— Enough; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
Seite 174 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Seite 9 - Though equal to all things, for all things unfit, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit : For a patriot, too cool ; for a drudge, disobedient ; And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemploy'd, or in place, Sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor.