Imaginary conversations. Third series : Conversations of literary men (First series)Chapman and Hall, 1876 - 4페이지 |
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... whole crop of their kind at one harvest- home . Shame upon those light ones who carol at the feast of blood ! and worse upon those graver ones who nail upon their escutcheon the name of great . Ambition is but Avarice on stilts and ...
... whole crop of their kind at one harvest- home . Shame upon those light ones who carol at the feast of blood ! and worse upon those graver ones who nail upon their escutcheon the name of great . Ambition is but Avarice on stilts and ...
12 페이지
... whole dominion of mortality ? Creatures , of whom the best and weightiest part are the feathers in their caps , and of whom the lightest are their words and actions , curl their whiskers and their lips in scorn upon similar meditations ...
... whole dominion of mortality ? Creatures , of whom the best and weightiest part are the feathers in their caps , and of whom the lightest are their words and actions , curl their whiskers and their lips in scorn upon similar meditations ...
20 페이지
... whole habiliments , are made at one stroke ; our fortunes the same , and the same our criticisms . Under my fellow - labourers in this vineyard , many vines have bled and few have blossomed . The proprietors seem to keep their stock as ...
... whole habiliments , are made at one stroke ; our fortunes the same , and the same our criticisms . Under my fellow - labourers in this vineyard , many vines have bled and few have blossomed . The proprietors seem to keep their stock as ...
27 페이지
... whole wilderness ; now bright bursting glades , with exuberant grass and flowers and fruitage ; now untroubled skies ; now terrific thun- derstorms ; everywhere multiformity , everywhere immensity . Porson . If after this ramble in the ...
... whole wilderness ; now bright bursting glades , with exuberant grass and flowers and fruitage ; now untroubled skies ; now terrific thun- derstorms ; everywhere multiformity , everywhere immensity . Porson . If after this ramble in the ...
39 페이지
... whole body of existing potentates . If their delicacy is shocked or alarmed at the idea of a proposal to send scientific and learned men to Naples , let them send a brace of pointers as internuncios , and the property is their own ...
... whole body of existing potentates . If their delicacy is shocked or alarmed at the idea of a proposal to send scientific and learned men to Naples , let them send a brace of pointers as internuncios , and the property is their own ...
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383 페이지 - There is no excellent Beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
518 페이지 - What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones The labour of an age in piled stones ? Or that his hallowed reliques should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What needst thou such weak witness of thy name ? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
375 페이지 - Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not: but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.
366 페이지 - That which is past is gone and irrevocable, and wise men have enough to do with things present and to come; therefore they do but trifle with themselves that labour in past matters. There is no man doth a wrong for the wrong's sake, but thereby to purchase himself profit, or pleasure, or honour, or the like; therefore why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me? And if any man should do wrong, merely out of...
443 페이지 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold...
374 페이지 - It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an Opinion as is unworthy of him : for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely : and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose :
127 페이지 - Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot; Or garden tempting with forbidden fruit.
382 페이지 - Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
386 페이지 - Certainly, fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid...
44 페이지 - He spake of love, such love as spirits feel In worlds whose course is equable and pure ; No fears to beat away, no strife to heal, The past unsighed for, and the future sure...