The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things, Band 1H. Colburn, 1826 - 447 Seiten |
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... mind of man , which cannot embrace the whole , but only a part . I do not think ( to give an instance or two of what I mean ) that Milton's mind was ( so to speak ) greater than the Paradise Lost ; it was just big enough to fill that ...
... mind of man , which cannot embrace the whole , but only a part . I do not think ( to give an instance or two of what I mean ) that Milton's mind was ( so to speak ) greater than the Paradise Lost ; it was just big enough to fill that ...
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... mind every where finding its level , and feeling no limit but that of thought - now soaring with its head above the stars , now tread- ing with fairy feet among flowers , now winnow- ing the air with winged words - passing from Duns ...
... mind every where finding its level , and feeling no limit but that of thought - now soaring with its head above the stars , now tread- ing with fairy feet among flowers , now winnow- ing the air with winged words - passing from Duns ...
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... mind , But with the clouds they fled , and left no trace behind . Now there is , who never had an idea in his life , and who therefore has never been prevented by the fastidious refinements of self- knowledge , or the dangerous ...
... mind , But with the clouds they fled , and left no trace behind . Now there is , who never had an idea in his life , and who therefore has never been prevented by the fastidious refinements of self- knowledge , or the dangerous ...
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... mind to exertion ; and hence we may see some reason , why the general diffusion of taste and liberal arts is not always accompanied with an increase of individual genius . As there is a degree of dulness and phlegm , TO SUCCESS IN LIFE .
... mind to exertion ; and hence we may see some reason , why the general diffusion of taste and liberal arts is not always accompanied with an increase of individual genius . As there is a degree of dulness and phlegm , TO SUCCESS IN LIFE .
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... mind in a sound body is better , or at least more profitable , than a sound mind in a weak and crazy conformation . How many instances might I quote ! Let a man have a quick circulation , a good digestion , the bulk , and thews , and ...
... mind in a sound body is better , or at least more profitable , than a sound mind in a weak and crazy conformation . How many instances might I quote ! Let a man have a quick circulation , a good digestion , the bulk , and thews , and ...
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Seite 266 - 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 41 - 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 311 - Yet nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean: so, o'er 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 416 - 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 335 - 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 289 - 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 170 - 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 266 - 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 155 - 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 22 - Doubtless the pleasure is as great In being cheated, as to cheat. As lookers-on find most delight, Who least perceive the juggler's sleight ; And still the less they understand, The more admire the sleight of hand.