MosaicsC. Scribner, 1859 - 408 pages |
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... admiration . Too often the victim of an insatiate love of applause , he is thus the more sensitive to the caprices of fortune , and of fame . On the other hand , it has been justly remarked by a modern essayist , * that " Authors hold ...
... admiration . Too often the victim of an insatiate love of applause , he is thus the more sensitive to the caprices of fortune , and of fame . On the other hand , it has been justly remarked by a modern essayist , * that " Authors hold ...
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... admirable balance of all the faculties . Madness is the disproportion or excess of any one of them . " Whatever their social peculiarities or defects , yet , if authors are , in a certain sense , the inspired among men , ought we not to ...
... admirable balance of all the faculties . Madness is the disproportion or excess of any one of them . " Whatever their social peculiarities or defects , yet , if authors are , in a certain sense , the inspired among men , ought we not to ...
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... admired by Demosthenes , that , in order to perfect himself as an orator , he transcribed it eight times , and could ... admirable moralist and histo- rian constituted the delight of Lucullus . Though Aristotle , Plato , and Theophrastus ...
... admired by Demosthenes , that , in order to perfect himself as an orator , he transcribed it eight times , and could ... admirable moralist and histo- rian constituted the delight of Lucullus . Though Aristotle , Plato , and Theophrastus ...
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... made an admission similar in effect . At a time when he had become the admiration of mankind , he confessed he felt like a child picking up pebbles on * Guesses at Truth . the sea - shore , with the unexplored ocean of 34 Mosaics .
... made an admission similar in effect . At a time when he had become the admiration of mankind , he confessed he felt like a child picking up pebbles on * Guesses at Truth . the sea - shore , with the unexplored ocean of 34 Mosaics .
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... admirable , but they want fire ; " and suiting the action to the word , the merciless critic committed them to the flames . 66 It may be presumed that Young wrote carefully , as he recommends others to do so . In his " Epistles , " the ...
... admirable , but they want fire ; " and suiting the action to the word , the merciless critic committed them to the flames . 66 It may be presumed that Young wrote carefully , as he recommends others to do so . In his " Epistles , " the ...
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admiration bachelor beauty better blessed breath bright character Charles Lamb charms cheerful child countenance D'Israeli dark death delight divine Douglas Jerrold earth expression eyes face fame fancy feeling flowers genius gentle glory grace grave happy hath heart heaven Henry Vaughan Horace Smith hour human humor intellect Jeremy Collier labor laugh laughter less light literary live look man's marriage melancholy ment Milton mind mirth modern humorist Molière moral morning nature never night nose observed Paradise Lost passion persons Petrarch physiognomy Plato pleasure poem poet poetic Prince of Condé remarks says seems Shakspeare sing Sir Walter Scott smile song sorrow soul spirit sunshine sweet Sydney Smith tears thee thing thou thought tion true truth vanity virtue voice wisdom woman words writing wrote young youth
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Page 409 - I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Page 124 - Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill: But their strong nerves at last must yield; They tame but one another still: Early or late They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath, When they, pale captives, creep to death. The garlands wither on your brow, Then boast no more your mighty deeds; Upon Death's purple altar now See, where the victor-victim bleeds: Your heads must come To the cold tomb; Only the actions of the just Smell sweet, and blossom...
Page 173 - For, wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy...
Page 131 - So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight, With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For, of the soul, the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make.
Page 31 - Out from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old; The litanies of nations came, Like the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below, — The canticles of love and woe...
Page 268 - I waked one morning, in the beginning of last June, from a dream, of which, all I could recover was, that I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head filled like mine with Gothic story), and that on the uppermost banister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down, and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate.
Page 346 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of Noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days...
Page 126 - Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep...
Page 407 - And let my liver rather heat with wine Than my heart cool with mortifying groans. Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?
Page 196 - There is in man's nature a secret inclination and motion towards love of others, which, if it be not spent upon some one or a few, doth naturally spread itself towards many, and maketh men become humane and charitable; as it is seen sometimes in friars. Nuptial love maketh mankind ; friendly love perfecteth it; but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.