The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things : in Two Volumes, Band 2Henry Colburn, New Burlington-Street, 1826 - 912 Seiten |
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... soul ! Respice finem , is the great rule in all practical pursuits to attain our journey's end , we should look little to the right or to the left ; the know- ledge of excellence as often deters and distracts , as it stimulates the mind ...
... soul ! Respice finem , is the great rule in all practical pursuits to attain our journey's end , we should look little to the right or to the left ; the know- ledge of excellence as often deters and distracts , as it stimulates the mind ...
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... soul as fair -- " Bright as the children of yon azure sheen " - yet that met with but an indifferent reception in the world — and that being supported by a couple of spindle - shanks and a weak stomach , in fulfilling what was expected ...
... soul as fair -- " Bright as the children of yon azure sheen " - yet that met with but an indifferent reception in the world — and that being supported by a couple of spindle - shanks and a weak stomach , in fulfilling what was expected ...
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... soul , no depth of feeling , -each arch expression playing on the surface , and passing into any other at pleasure , -no one thought having its full scope , but checked by some other , -soft , careless , insin- cere , pleased , affected ...
... soul , no depth of feeling , -each arch expression playing on the surface , and passing into any other at pleasure , -no one thought having its full scope , but checked by some other , -soft , careless , insin- cere , pleased , affected ...
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... revelled , and added my floods of tears to Goëthe's Sorrows of Werter , and to Schiller's Robbers- Giving my stock of more to that which had too much ! I read , and assented with all my soul to ON READING OLD BOOKS . 75.
... revelled , and added my floods of tears to Goëthe's Sorrows of Werter , and to Schiller's Robbers- Giving my stock of more to that which had too much ! I read , and assented with all my soul to ON READING OLD BOOKS . 75.
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... soul to Cole- ridge's fine Sonnet , beginning- Schiller ! that hour I would have wish'd to die , If through the shuddering midnight I had sent , From the dark dungeon of the tow'r time - rent , That fearful voice , a famish'd father's ...
... soul to Cole- ridge's fine Sonnet , beginning- Schiller ! that hour I would have wish'd to die , If through the shuddering midnight I had sent , From the dark dungeon of the tow'r time - rent , That fearful voice , a famish'd father's ...
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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 341 - 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 315 - 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 270 - 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 293 - 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 157 - Time travels in divers paces with divers persons : I'll tell you who time ambles withal, who time trots withal, who time gallops withal, and who he stands still withal.
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 95 - Amid the groves, under the shadowy hills, The generations are prepared ; the pangs, . The internal pangs, are ready ; the dread strife Of poor humanity's afflicted will Struggling in vain with ruthless destiny.
Seite 270 - 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 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.