 | Isaac Disraeli - 1822 - 344 ページ
...me more that " the proprietor" should have " often" wished to make alterations, than it could give pleasure that the rest of Arezzo rose against his...applause of the highest is pleasing ; the sting of a scorpion is more in torture than the possession of any thing could be in rapture." veneration may... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1822 - 312 ページ
...work which I have wished to preserve, I find his lordship observing on the feelings of genius, that " the depreciation of the lowest of mankind is more...painful than the applause of the highest is pleasing." Such is the confession of genius, and such its liability to hourly pain. Once we were nearly receiving... | |
 | Robert Montgomery - 1830 - 410 ページ
...could give pleasure that the rest of Arezzo rose against his right (for right he had) ; the deprecation of the lowest of mankind is more painful than the applause of the highest is pleasing ; the sting of a scorpion is more in torture than the possession of anything could be in rapture." SATAN. BOOK II.... | |
 | Robert Montgomery - 1830 - 400 ページ
...me more that ' the proprietor' should have ' often' wished to make alterations, than it could give pleasure that the rest of Arezzo rose against his right (for right he had) ; the deprecation of the lowest of mankind is more painful than the applause of the highest is pleasing ;... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1834 - 318 ページ
...the house consecrated by his birth should remain unchanged ; — "a triumph," adds Disraeli, " more affecting to Petrarch than even his coronation at...of any thing short of Venus would be in rapture." * * * * The public gardens are the work of the French, and occupy the extremity of one of the islands.... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1834 - 292 ページ
...proprietor should often have wished to make alterations, than it would give me pleasure that the rest ef Arezzo rose against his right (for right he had :)...of any thing short of Venus would be in rapture." * " * » * The public gardens are the work of the French, and occupy the extremity of one of the islands.... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1839 - 418 ページ
...me more that ' the proprietor * should have 4 often * wished to make alterations, than it eould give pleasure that the rest of Arezzo rose against his...lowest of mankind is more painful than the applause of th« highest is pleasing ; the sting of a scorpion is more in torture than the possession of anything... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1840 - 516 ページ
...work, which I have wished to preserve, I find his lordship observing on the feelings of genius, that " the depreciation of the lowest of mankind is more...painful than the applause of the highest is pleasing." Such is the confession of genius, and such its liability to hourly pain. Once we were nearly receiving... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1841 - 452 ページ
...than it could give pleasure that the rest of Arezzo rose against hisrigAf (for right he hnd ;) ihe depreciation of the lowest of mankind is more painful than the applause of the higl> est is pleasing ; the sting of a scorpion is more in torture than tho possession of anything... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - 1843 - 606 ページ
...praise — they are more thin-skinned, and to them objection is irritating and abuse is torture. " The depreciation of the lowest of mankind is more...painful than the applause of the highest is pleasing," said Lord Byron ; " the sting of a scorpion is more in torture than the possession of any thing couldbe... | |
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Lord Byron has written in the margin — " It would have pained me more that the proprietor should often have wished to make alterations, than it would give me pleasure that the rest of Arezzo rose against his right (for right he had:) the depreciation... 
