The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great Essayists, from Lord Bacon to John Ruskin; with Introduction, Biographical Notices, and Critical NotesW. P. Nimmo & Company, 1881 - 536 ページ |
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... excellent . Seek the good of other men , but be not in bondage to their faces or fancies : for that is but facility or soft- ness which taketh an honest mind prisoner . Neither give thou Æsop's cock a gem , who would be better pleased ...
... excellent . Seek the good of other men , but be not in bondage to their faces or fancies : for that is but facility or soft- ness which taketh an honest mind prisoner . Neither give thou Æsop's cock a gem , who would be better pleased ...
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... excellent composi- tion for business . Young men are fitter to invent than to judge ; fitter for execution than for counsel ; and fitter for new projects than for settled business . For the experience of age , in things that fall within ...
... excellent composi- tion for business . Young men are fitter to invent than to judge ; fitter for execution than for counsel ; and fitter for new projects than for settled business . For the experience of age , in things that fall within ...
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... excellent . Such per- sonages , I think , would please nobody but the painter that made them . Not but I think a painter may make a better face than ever was ; but he must do it by a kind of felicity , as a musician that maketh an excellent ...
... excellent . Such per- sonages , I think , would please nobody but the painter that made them . Not but I think a painter may make a better face than ever was ; but he must do it by a kind of felicity , as a musician that maketh an excellent ...
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... excellent virtues : the lowest virtues draw praise from them : the middle virtues work in them astonishment or admiration ; but of the highest virtues they have no sense or perceiving at all : but shows , and species virtutibus similes ...
... excellent virtues : the lowest virtues draw praise from them : the middle virtues work in them astonishment or admiration ; but of the highest virtues they have no sense or perceiving at all : but shows , and species virtutibus similes ...
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... excellent musician , which cannot utter himself upon a defective instru- ment . 6. But see how I am swerved , and lose my course , touching at the soul , that doth least hold action with death , who hath the surest property in this ...
... excellent musician , which cannot utter himself upon a defective instru- ment . 6. But see how I am swerved , and lose my course , touching at the soul , that doth least hold action with death , who hath the surest property in this ...
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72 ページ - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
74 ページ - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple. Who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter ? Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing.
122 ページ - Think not man was made in vain, who has such an eternity reserved for him.' I gazed with inexpressible pleasure on these happy islands. ' At length,' said I, ' show me now, I beseech thee, the secrets that lie hid under those dark clouds which cover the ocean on the other side of the rock of adamant.' The Genius making me no answer, I turned about to address myself to him a second time, but I found that he had left me ; I then turned again to the vision which I had been so long contemplating; but...
406 ページ - Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me, That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air...
23 ページ - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth; for a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love.
9 ページ - Doth any man doubt that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?
311 ページ - ... assailed his nostrils, unlike any scent which he had before experienced. What could it proceed from ? — not from the burnt cottage — he had smelt that smell before — • indeed this was by no means the first accident of the kind which had occurred through the negligence of this unlucky young fire-brand. Much less did it resemble that of any known herb, weed, or flower. A premonitory moistening at the same time overflowed his nether lip. He knew not what to think.
238 ページ - I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds. I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
33 ページ - ... judgment wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholar. They perfect nature and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them: for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them and above them, won by observation.
136 ページ - ... subjects, hear their duties explained to them, and join together in adoration of the Supreme Being. Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week, not only as it refreshes in their minds the notions of religion, but as it puts both the sexes...