The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things, Zväzok 2Henry Colburn, 1826 - 472 strán (strany) |
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... . Men are in numberless instances qualified for certain things , for no other reason than because they are qualified for nothing else . Negative merit is the passport to negative success . In common 6 ON THE QUALIFICATIONS NECESSARY.
... . Men are in numberless instances qualified for certain things , for no other reason than because they are qualified for nothing else . Negative merit is the passport to negative success . In common 6 ON THE QUALIFICATIONS NECESSARY.
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... common life , the narrowness of our ideas and appetites is more favourable to the accomplish- ment of our designs , by confining our attention and ambition to one single object , than a greater enlargement of comprehension or ...
... common life , the narrowness of our ideas and appetites is more favourable to the accomplish- ment of our designs , by confining our attention and ambition to one single object , than a greater enlargement of comprehension or ...
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... common subjects ; or that Walter Scott is fonder of an old Scotch ditty or antiquarian record , than of listening to the praises of the Author of Waverley . On the contrary , I can- not conceive how any one who feels conscious of ...
... common subjects ; or that Walter Scott is fonder of an old Scotch ditty or antiquarian record , than of listening to the praises of the Author of Waverley . On the contrary , I can- not conceive how any one who feels conscious of ...
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... common - place things " with a confident brow and a throng of words , that come with more than impudent sauciness from him , " while the latter shrinks from an observation " too deep for his hearers , " into the delicacy and unnoticed ...
... common - place things " with a confident brow and a throng of words , that come with more than impudent sauciness from him , " while the latter shrinks from an observation " too deep for his hearers , " into the delicacy and unnoticed ...
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... common herd do not by any means give him full credit for his gratuitous sympathy with their concerns ; but are struck with his lack - lustre eye and wasted appearance . They cannot translate the expres- sion of his countenance out of ...
... common herd do not by any means give him full credit for his gratuitous sympathy with their concerns ; but are struck with his lack - lustre eye and wasted appearance . They cannot translate the expres- sion of his countenance out of ...
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Strana 43 - 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.
Strana 313 - Yet nature is made better by no mean But nature makes that mean : so, over 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.
Strana 14 - As a sick girl. Ye gods ! it doth amaze me A man of such a feeble temper should So get the start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone.
Strana 268 - 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...
Strana 339 - 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.
Strana 420 - 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.
Strana 291 - 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.
Strana 268 - 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.
Strana 174 - 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.
Strana 9 - Though equal to all things, for all things unfit, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit : For a patriot, too cool ; for a drudge, disobedient ; And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemploy'd, or in place, Sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor.