Guesses at TruthTicknor and Fields, 1861 - 555 páginas |
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Página ix
... remarks found among my brother's papers , suitable to the work , have been , or will be incorporated . Unfortunately for the work they are but few . Soon after the publication of the first edition , he gave up guessing at Truth , for ...
... remarks found among my brother's papers , suitable to the work , have been , or will be incorporated . Unfortunately for the work they are but few . Soon after the publication of the first edition , he gave up guessing at Truth , for ...
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... remarks in his Table - Talk : " The Turks tell their people of a heaven where there is a sensible pleasure , but of a hell where they shall suffer they don't know what . The Christians quite invert this order : they tell us of a hell ...
... remarks in his Table - Talk : " The Turks tell their people of a heaven where there is a sensible pleasure , but of a hell where they shall suffer they don't know what . The Christians quite invert this order : they tell us of a hell ...
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... remark let me draw a couple of corollaries : first , that such a man , as well from his station , as from his acuteness , and the natural pride of a powerful and cultivated intellect , was the last person to become the dupe of credulous ...
... remark let me draw a couple of corollaries : first , that such a man , as well from his station , as from his acuteness , and the natural pride of a powerful and cultivated intellect , was the last person to become the dupe of credulous ...
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... remark too , if true in any degree , holds good much further . A critic should be a pair of snuffers . extinguisher ; and not seldom a thief . He is oftener an U. The intellect of the wise is like glass : it admits the light of heaven ...
... remark too , if true in any degree , holds good much further . A critic should be a pair of snuffers . extinguisher ; and not seldom a thief . He is oftener an U. The intellect of the wise is like glass : it admits the light of heaven ...
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... remark , that , in the conjunctions of these two imaginary bodies , the moral moon is never eclipst , except at the full , nor ever eclipses , but when it is in the wane . Love , " says our greatest living prose - writer , * in one of ...
... remark , that , in the conjunctions of these two imaginary bodies , the moral moon is never eclipst , except at the full , nor ever eclipses , but when it is in the wane . Love , " says our greatest living prose - writer , * in one of ...
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Página 472 - Lord, thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle ? MICAH.
Página 38 - God, or melior natura; which courage is manifestly such as that creature, without that confidence of a better nature than his own, could never attain. So man, when he resteth and assureth himself upon divine protection and favour, gathereth a force and faith which human nature in itself could not obtain.
Página 93 - It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of people and wicked condemned men, to be the people with whom you plant: and not only so, but it spoileth the plantation; for they will ever live like rogues, and not fall to work, but be lazy, and do mischief, and spend victuals, and be quickly weary, and then certify over4 to their country to the discredit of the plantation.
Página 239 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Página 343 - For whilst, to the shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath, from the leaves of thy unvalued book, Those Delphic lines with deep impression took ; Then thou, our fancy of itself bereaving, Dost make us marble, with too much conceiving ; And, so sepulchred, in such pomp dost lie, That kings, for such a tomb, would wish to die.
Página 366 - ... even that of the loftiest and seemingly that of the wildest odes, had a logic of its own, as severe as that of science, and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more, and more fugitive, causes. In the truly great poets, he would say, there is a reason assignable not only for every word, but for the position of every word...
Página 361 - When Reason seemed the most to assert her rights When most intent on making of herself A prime enchantress — to assist the work, Which then was going forward in her name ! Not favoured spots alone, but the whole earth, The beauty wore of promise — that which sets (As at some moment might not be unfelt Among the bowers of paradise itself) The budding rose above the rose full blown.
Página 98 - WE, greatly commending, and graciously accepting of, their Desires for the Furtherance of so noble a Work, which may, by the Providence of Almighty God, hereafter tend to the Glory of his Divine Majesty, in propagating of Christian Religion to such People, as yet live in Darkness and miserable Ignorance of the true Knowledge and Worship of God...
Página 217 - Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it : his mind and hand went together ; and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.
Página 343 - What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones, The labour of an age in piled stones, Or that his hallowed relics should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of Fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument.