The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things, Band 1H. Colburn, 1826 - 447 Seiten |
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... pretensions , as we might superficially conclude , but of the real capacity . A part is greater than the whole and this old saying seems to hold true in moral and intellectual questions also -in nearly all that relates to the mind of ...
... pretensions , as we might superficially conclude , but of the real capacity . A part is greater than the whole and this old saying seems to hold true in moral and intellectual questions also -in nearly all that relates to the mind of ...
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... pretensions , will never question them ; and on the same principle , if you do not try to palm yourself on them for what you are not , will never be per- suaded you can be any thing . Admiration , like mocking , is catching : and the ...
... pretensions , will never question them ; and on the same principle , if you do not try to palm yourself on them for what you are not , will never be per- suaded you can be any thing . Admiration , like mocking , is catching : and the ...
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... pretensions . It has been sometimes made a matter of surprise that Mr. Pitt did not talk politics out of the House ; or that Mr. Fox conversed like any one else on common subjects ; or that Walter Scott is fonder of an old Scotch ditty ...
... pretensions . It has been sometimes made a matter of surprise that Mr. Pitt did not talk politics out of the House ; or that Mr. Fox conversed like any one else on common subjects ; or that Walter Scott is fonder of an old Scotch ditty ...
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... - self before or after he became known to the readers of the Morning Chronicle , and it ac- cordingly made no difference in his appearance - or pretensions . " Don't you remember , " says 24 ON THE QUALIFICATIONS NECESSARY.
... - self before or after he became known to the readers of the Morning Chronicle , and it ac- cordingly made no difference in his appearance - or pretensions . " Don't you remember , " says 24 ON THE QUALIFICATIONS NECESSARY.
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Opinions on Books, Men, and Things William Hazlitt. or pretensions . " Don't you remember , " says Gray , in one of his letters , " Lord Cand Lord M -- who are now great statesmen , little dirty boys playing at cricket ? For my own part ...
Opinions on Books, Men, and Things William Hazlitt. or pretensions . " Don't you remember , " says Gray , in one of his letters , " Lord Cand Lord M -- who are now great statesmen , little dirty boys playing at cricket ? For my own part ...
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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.