Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, Bind 5H. Colburn, 1829 |
Fra bogen
Resultater 1-5 af 27
Side 21
... imagine , said he , unpleasing to themselves , if full of melancholy and indisposition . But how much of truth and wisdom is compressed in these few sentences ! Do not you wonder that a man capable of all this , should likewise be ...
... imagine , said he , unpleasing to themselves , if full of melancholy and indisposition . But how much of truth and wisdom is compressed in these few sentences ! Do not you wonder that a man capable of all this , should likewise be ...
Side 24
... for slight divergences . " You may imagine , " says Bacon , " what kind of faith their's was , when the chief doctors and fathers of their church were the poets . " I redd this loudly and triumphantly to my friend , 24 BARROW.
... for slight divergences . " You may imagine , " says Bacon , " what kind of faith their's was , when the chief doctors and fathers of their church were the poets . " I redd this loudly and triumphantly to my friend , 24 BARROW.
Side 34
... imagine there is more to be found in them than they possess . Take down that volume : read the examples I have tran- scribed at the end . " The loss of every devotion and every religion draws after it infinite inconveniences and ...
... imagine there is more to be found in them than they possess . Take down that volume : read the examples I have tran- scribed at the end . " The loss of every devotion and every religion draws after it infinite inconveniences and ...
Side 159
... imagine were made for the storms to rest upon , when they are tired of raving . And what bark ! It occurs to me , Epi- curus , that I have rarely seen climing plants attach themselves to these trees , as they do to the oak , the maple ...
... imagine were made for the storms to rest upon , when they are tired of raving . And what bark ! It occurs to me , Epi- curus , that I have rarely seen climing plants attach themselves to these trees , as they do to the oak , the maple ...
Side 163
... imagine them to be feathers from the wings of Zethes and Calais , who came hither out of Thrace to behold the favorite haunts of their mother Orithyia . From the precipice that hangs over the sea , a few paces from the pinasters , she ...
... imagine them to be feathers from the wings of Zethes and Calais , who came hither out of Thrace to behold the favorite haunts of their mother Orithyia . From the precipice that hangs over the sea , a few paces from the pinasters , she ...
Andre udgaver - Se alle
Almindelige termer og sætninger
admire altho arcons atheism Bacon BARROW beauty believe better blessing Caius Marius called CATHARINE christianity church Cicero COTTON creature DASHKOF dear divine doth doubt earth enemy England English EPICURUS equal eyes faith fancy father genius give glory GODIVA greater hand hath hear heard heart honour hope idle imagine Izaac juggler KAIDO king labour leave LEOFRIC LEONTION less live look Lord Majesty MARIUS master ment METELLUS MICHEL MIGUEL mind Mordaunt MOTHER never NEWTON NICOLAS Numantia OLDWAYS opinion Orithyia peace PELEUS PENN perhaps permitt PETERBOROUGH philosophers Plato pleasure poets priests prince privy counsellor rajah Rao-Gong-Fao reason reflexion religion Russia shew speak stil tell TERNISSA thee Theophrastus THETIS thing thou art thou hast thought thro truth virtue WALTON whole wilt wisdom wise wiser wish wonder words worse write ZAVELLAS
Populære passager
Side 60 - There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. A man cannot tell whether Apelles or Albert Durer were the more trifler ; whereof the one would make a personage by. geometrical proportions, the other by taking the best parts out of divers faces to make one excellent.
Side 53 - But these small wares and petty points of cunning are infinite ; and it were a good deed to make a list of them ; for that nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
Side 31 - Reform, therefore, without bravery or scandal of former times and persons ; but yet set it down to thyself, as well to create good precedents as to follow them.
Side 60 - 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.
Side 56 - Arras, opened and put abroad:" whereby the imagery doth appear in figure ; whereas in thoughts they lie but as in packs.
Side 31 - But power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring. For good thoughts (though God accept them) yet towards men are little better than good dreams, except they be put in act; and that cannot be without power and place, as the vantage and commanding ground.
Side 340 - Rabbi:' for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren. And call no man your father upon earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.
Side 44 - 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.
Side 55 - ... certain it is that whosoever hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understanding do clarify and break up in the communicating and discoursing with another : he tosseth his thoughts more easily ; he...
Side 21 - Truth may, perhaps, come to the price of a pearl that showeth best by day, but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle that showeth best in varied lights.