With the Wits: Shelburne Essays, Tenth Series, Band 10Houghton Mifflin, 1919 - 311 Seiten |
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... fear the critical reader may even be tempted to exclaim : Que diable allait - il faire dans cette galère ? My galley , in fact , is only an excursion boat on the waters of jour- nalism , the company is mixed ; if the brief.
... fear the critical reader may even be tempted to exclaim : Que diable allait - il faire dans cette galère ? My galley , in fact , is only an excursion boat on the waters of jour- nalism , the company is mixed ; if the brief.
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... fact the procedure was quite the contrary : it was my custom to compose with free hand and then to cut down to the length permitted by the exigencies of space . The work of elimination sometimes gave me pain , but since I was acting as ...
... fact the procedure was quite the contrary : it was my custom to compose with free hand and then to cut down to the length permitted by the exigencies of space . The work of elimination sometimes gave me pain , but since I was acting as ...
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... fact that the world gives them a blank check for expenses . No errors they can make , so far as we can imagine , can conceivably compare with the tragic errors of statesmanship before the war . " I suspect that the " paper - saving ...
... fact that the world gives them a blank check for expenses . No errors they can make , so far as we can imagine , can conceivably compare with the tragic errors of statesmanship before the war . " I suspect that the " paper - saving ...
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... fact and fatality into a world of happier fancy , until , by introducing the master passion in the form of humours , Jonson changed fancy into satire and set comedy on a parallel with tragedy . That was a change important alike for ...
... fact and fatality into a world of happier fancy , until , by introducing the master passion in the form of humours , Jonson changed fancy into satire and set comedy on a parallel with tragedy . That was a change important alike for ...
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... fact is , here are but a succession of womanly passions , each indeed cunningly con- ceived and expressed , but giving us in the end nothing we can grasp as a whole and comprehend no woman at all , unless mere random passion- ateness ...
... fact is , here are but a succession of womanly passions , each indeed cunningly con- ceived and expressed , but giving us in the end nothing we can grasp as a whole and comprehend no woman at all , unless mere random passion- ateness ...
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Seite 144 - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Seite 115 - In Pope I cannot read a line, But with a sigh I wish it mine; When he can in one couplet fix More sense than I can do in six; It gives me such a jealous fit, I cry, "Pox take him and his wit!
Seite 193 - Some truths there are so near and obvious to the mind that a man need only open his eyes to see them. Such I take this important one to be, viz. that all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth, in a word all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any subsistence without a mind...
Seite 258 - He knew every branch of history, both natural and civil ; had read all the original historians of England, France, and Italy; and was a great antiquarian. Criticism, metaphysics, morals, politics, made a principal part of his study ; voyages and travels of all sorts were his favourite amusements : and he had a fine taste in painting, prints, architecture, and gardening.
Seite 181 - Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys: So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as...
Seite 131 - New distant scenes of endless science rise. So pleased at first the towering Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky ; The eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last : But those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way ; The increasing prospect tires our wandering eyes, Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise...
Seite 291 - LAST night ah, yesternight, betwixt her lips and mine There fell thy shadow, Cynara! thy breath was shed Upon my soul between the kisses and the wine; And I was desolate and sick of an old passion, Yea, I was desolate and bowed my head: I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.
Seite 129 - In the morning, after the priest had given him the last sacraments, he said, "There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship, and indeed friendship itself is only a part of virtue.
Seite 125 - After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, Whether Pope was a poet ? otherwise than by asking in return, If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found...
Seite 144 - Dreading e'en fools, by flatterers besieged, And so obliging, that he ne'er obliged; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; While wits and Templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers load, On wings of winds came flying...