The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things, 第 1 巻H. Colburn, 1826 - 447 ページ |
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... person whose conversation he ever sought for improvement was George Psalmana- zar : yet who knows any thing of this extraor- dinary man now , but that he wrote about twenty volumes of the Universal History - in- vented a Formosan ...
... person whose conversation he ever sought for improvement was George Psalmana- zar : yet who knows any thing of this extraor- dinary man now , but that he wrote about twenty volumes of the Universal History - in- vented a Formosan ...
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... person who cannot so far forego his native disposition as by any effort to shake it off , to perfect insig- nificance in the eyes of the vulgar , who , if you do not seem to doubt your own pretensions , will never question them ; and on ...
... person who cannot so far forego his native disposition as by any effort to shake it off , to perfect insig- nificance in the eyes of the vulgar , who , if you do not seem to doubt your own pretensions , will never question them ; and on ...
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... person ; the other shall lose the advantages of mental superiority , seek to anticipate contempt by giving offence , court mortification in despair of popularity , and even in the midst of public and private admira- tion , extorted ...
... person ; the other shall lose the advantages of mental superiority , seek to anticipate contempt by giving offence , court mortification in despair of popularity , and even in the midst of public and private admira- tion , extorted ...
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... persons did not correspond with their deserts . There was a natural contradiction between the physiognomy of their minds and bodies ! The phrase , " a good - looking man , " means different things in town and country ; and artists have ...
... persons did not correspond with their deserts . There was a natural contradiction between the physiognomy of their minds and bodies ! The phrase , " a good - looking man , " means different things in town and country ; and artists have ...
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... person having written up- wards of sixty columns of original matter on po- litics , criticism , belles - lettres , and virtù in a re- spectable Morning Paper , in a single half - year , was , at the end of that period , on applying for ...
... person having written up- wards of sixty columns of original matter on po- litics , criticism , belles - lettres , and virtù in a re- spectable Morning Paper , in a single half - year , was , at the end of that period , on applying for ...
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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.