 ... jewels five words long That on the stretched fore-finger of all time Sparkle for ever.  Opera - Strana xxpodľa Horace - 1895 - Počet stránok 252Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | 1856 - Počet stránok 430
...expressions of exquisite beauty, play in across the narrativa, till it sparkles like a prism. It is rich in "Jewels, five words long. That on the stretched forefinger of all time, Sparkle forever." Here is a little lyric, that almost seems as if it must have been written at sunset, and... | |
 | William Fleming - 1860 - Počet stránok 912
...1 Heraclitus is known by his aphorisms, which are among the most brilliant of those " Jewels, live words long, That on the stretched fore-finger of all time, Sparkle for ever." Among the most famous are, — War is father of all things, ie, all things are evolved by antagonistic... | |
 | William Fleming - 1860 - Počet stránok 710
...' Ileraclitus is known by his aphorisms, which are among the most brilliant of those " Jewels, fire words long, That on the stretched, fore-finger of all time, Sparkle for CTer." Among the most famous are, — War is father of all things, te, all tilings are evolved by antagonistic... | |
 | 1862 - Počet stránok 568
...of Shelley, Essex, in 1662. CH & THOMPSON COOPEB. Cambridge. TEXNYSON (3rd S. ii. 431.)— " . . . Jewels, five words long, That on the stretched forefinger of all Time Sparkle for ever." — The Princess, p. 48. MEBMENTBUDE. OFFICIAL ARMS OP REGIUS PROFESSORS (3rd S. i. 311.)— Perhaps... | |
 | Sir John Skelton - 1862 - Počet stránok 512
...himself among women," it is pleasant sometimes to muse over the deep sayings of the Masters — those " jewels five words long, that, on the stretched forefinger of all time, sparkle for ever." Shakspeare's, for instance, are like those in Holy Writ. You never feel sure that you have got to the... | |
 | 1863 - Počet stránok 744
...Tennyson may be presumed to refer to epigrams, when he makes his professors in petticoats quote — " Jewels five words long, That, on the stretched forefinger of all time, Sparkle for ever." But the phrase of Keats—" the rapier- pointed epigram" — is a better definition. The epigram should... | |
 | George Herbert - 1863 - Počet stránok 732
...Tennyson may be presumed to refer to epigrams, when he makes his professors in petticoats quote — "Jewels five words long, That, on the stretched forefinger of all time, Sparkle for ever." But the phrase of Keate— " the rapier- pointed epigram" — is a better definition. The epigram should... | |
 | Edwin Hubbell Chapin - 1866 - Počet stránok 376
...jr:-:.'->i .V - . '.I '.' » > i L [ LIVING WORDS, BT EH CHAPIN, DD WITH AN INTRODUCTORY BT REV. TS KINO. "Jewels five words long. That on the stretched fore-finger of all time Sparkle forever." BOSTON: c j NE UNIVEBSALIST PUBLISHING HOUES, NO. 37 COBNHILL. 1866. C UM«. 10- S' HARVANB... | |
 | Alonzo Hall Quint - 1867 - Počet stránok 572
...immortal, a part of the circulating wealth of the intellectual realm. This expression is one of those — " Jewels, five words long, That on the stretched forefinger of all time Sparkle for ever." In the quarry of that rich and creative mind many such crystals of speech were elaborated, — symmetrical,... | |
 | William Fleming - 1867 - Počet stránok 700
...unmethodical sentences." ' Heraclitus is known by his aphorisms, which are among the most brilliant of those " Jewels, five words long, That on the stretched fore-finger of all time, Sparkle for ever." Among the most famous are, — War is father of all things, ». «., all things are evolved by antagonistic... | |
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