The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things, 第 1 巻H. Colburn, 1826 - 447 ページ |
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... , or too high an opinion of the discernment of the public . He who is determined not to be satis- fied with any thing short of perfection , will never do any thing at all , either to please 4 ON THE QUALIFICATIONS NECESSARY.
... , or too high an opinion of the discernment of the public . He who is determined not to be satis- fied with any thing short of perfection , will never do any thing at all , either to please 4 ON THE QUALIFICATIONS NECESSARY.
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... opinion of all his friends . He has written a book without being able to spell , by dint of ask- ing questions - has painted draperies with great exactness , which have passed for finished por- traits - daubs in an unaccountable figure ...
... opinion of all his friends . He has written a book without being able to spell , by dint of ask- ing questions - has painted draperies with great exactness , which have passed for finished por- traits - daubs in an unaccountable figure ...
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... catching : and the good opinion which gets abroad of us begins at home . If a man is not as much astonished at his own acquirements as proud of and as delighted with the bauble , as others would be if put 14 ON THE QUALIFICATIONS NECESSARY.
... catching : and the good opinion which gets abroad of us begins at home . If a man is not as much astonished at his own acquirements as proud of and as delighted with the bauble , as others would be if put 14 ON THE QUALIFICATIONS NECESSARY.
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... Scotch Novels laid an undue stress on the praises of the Monastery . We nurse the ricketty child , and prop up our want of self - confidence by the opinion of friends . A man ( unless he is a fool ) is never TO SUCCESS IN LIFE . 15.
... Scotch Novels laid an undue stress on the praises of the Monastery . We nurse the ricketty child , and prop up our want of self - confidence by the opinion of friends . A man ( unless he is a fool ) is never TO SUCCESS IN LIFE . 15.
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... opinion of himself , to make up for the want of sympathy in others . A damned author has the highest sense of his own merits , and an inexpressible contempt for the judg- ment of his contemporaries ; in the same man- ner that an actor ...
... opinion of himself , to make up for the want of sympathy in others . A damned author has the highest sense of his own merits , and an inexpressible contempt for the judg- ment of his contemporaries ; in the same man- ner that an actor ...
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266 ページ - O'er a' the ills o" life victorious ! But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever; Or like the Borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. — Nae man can tether time or tide ; The hour approaches Tam maun ride; That hour, o...
41 ページ - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella.
311 ページ - Yet nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean: so, o'er that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race: this is an art Which does mend nature, — change it rather; but The art itself is nature.
416 ページ - I care not, fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face, You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve : Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
335 ページ - Merciful heaven! What, man! ne'er pull your hat upon your brows; Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.
289 ページ - Piety displays Her mouldering roll, the piercing eye explores New manners, and the pomp of elder days, Whence culls the pensive bard his pictured stores. Nor rough nor barren are the winding ways Of hoar Antiquity, but strewn with flowers.
170 ページ - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
266 ページ - DUKE'S PALACE. [Enter DUKE, CURIO, LORDS; MUSICIANS attending.] DUKE. If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die.— That strain again;— it had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.— Enough; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
155 ページ - Time travels in divers paces with divers persons : I'll tell you who time ambles withal, who time trots withal, who time gallops withal, and who he stands still withal.
22 ページ - Doubtless the pleasure is as great In being cheated, as to cheat. As lookers-on find most delight, Who least perceive the juggler's sleight ; And still the less they understand, The more admire the sleight of hand.