The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Zväzok 1F.P. Kaiser, 1900 - 4190 strán (strany) |
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Strana 18
... sometimes slovenly , if it were undeniable that he knew nothing of comparative philology , of biology , of sociology and political economy , he would re- main , nevertheless , a model for the English writers of all times , and more ...
... sometimes slovenly , if it were undeniable that he knew nothing of comparative philology , of biology , of sociology and political economy , he would re- main , nevertheless , a model for the English writers of all times , and more ...
Strana 21
... sometimes I am seen thrusting my head into a round of politicians at Will's , and listening with great attention to the narratives that are made in those little circular audiences . Some- times I smoke a pipe at Child's , and , while I ...
... sometimes I am seen thrusting my head into a round of politicians at Will's , and listening with great attention to the narratives that are made in those little circular audiences . Some- times I smoke a pipe at Child's , and , while I ...
Strana 31
... sometimes gave in to the Plocé , but that in his humble opinion he shone most in the Antanaclasis . I must not here omit that a famous university of this land was formerly very much infested with puns ; but whether or not this might ...
... sometimes gave in to the Plocé , but that in his humble opinion he shone most in the Antanaclasis . I must not here omit that a famous university of this land was formerly very much infested with puns ; but whether or not this might ...
Strana 34
... sometimes of syllables , as in echoes and doggerel rhymes ; sometimes of words , as in puns and quibbles ; and sometimes of whole sentences or poems , cast into the figures of eggs , axes , or altars ; nay , some carry the notion of wit ...
... sometimes of syllables , as in echoes and doggerel rhymes ; sometimes of words , as in puns and quibbles ; and sometimes of whole sentences or poems , cast into the figures of eggs , axes , or altars ; nay , some carry the notion of wit ...
Strana 36
... sometimes scorched in every eye . Sometimes he is drowned in tears and burnt in love , like a ship set on fire in the middle of the sea . The reader may observe in every one of these instances that the poet mixes the qualities of fire ...
... sometimes scorched in every eye . Sometimes he is drowned in tears and burnt in love , like a ship set on fire in the middle of the sea . The reader may observe in every one of these instances that the poet mixes the qualities of fire ...
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Strana 231 - Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Strana 308 - WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients.
Strana 356 - All this is true, if time stood still; which contrariwise moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation ; and they that reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to the new. It were good therefore that men in their innovations would follow the example of time itself; which indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived.
Strana 321 - Nay, retire men cannot when they would; neither will they when it were reason; but are impatient of privateness, even in age and sickness, which require the shadow: like old townsmen that will be still sitting at their street door, though thereby they offer age to scorn.
Strana 54 - I •wished for the wings of an eagle, that I might fly away to those happy seats ; but the Genius told me there was no passage to them, except through the gates of death that I saw opening every moment upon the bridge. "The islands...
Strana 309 - Certainly if miracles be the command over nature, they appear most in adversity. It is yet a higher speech of his than the other (much too high for a heathen), "It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man, and the security of a God.
Strana 1 - We have but faith : we cannot know; For knowledge is of things we see ; And yet we trust it comes from thee, A beam in darkness : let it grow.
Strana 97 - As we stood before Busby's tomb, the Knight uttered himself again after the same manner, — "Dr. Busby — a great man ! he whipped my grandfather — a very great man...
Strana 70 - It is said he keeps himself a bachelor by reason he was crossed in love by a perverse beautiful widow of the next county to him. Before this disappointment, Sir Roger was what you call a fine gentleman, had often supped with my Lord Rochester and Sir George Etherege, fought a duel upon his first coming to town, and kicked bully Dawson in a public coffee-house for calling him youngster.
Strana 332 - Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend: « Abeunt studia in mores. * Nay, there is no stond nor impediment in the wit but may be wrought out by fit studies...