Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and ThingsWiley & Putnam, 1846 - Great Britain |
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... less treasures , for there is no line drawn and we see no limit to our hopes and wishes . We make the coming age our own- " The vast , unbounded prospect lies before us . " Death , old age , are words without a meaning , a dream , a ...
... less treasures , for there is no line drawn and we see no limit to our hopes and wishes . We make the coming age our own- " The vast , unbounded prospect lies before us . " Death , old age , are words without a meaning , a dream , a ...
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... less . Sir Joshua formed the circle of his private friends from the élite of his sitters ; and Vandyke was , it appears , on the same footing with his . When any of those noble or distinguished per- sons whom he has immortalised with ...
... less . Sir Joshua formed the circle of his private friends from the élite of his sitters ; and Vandyke was , it appears , on the same footing with his . When any of those noble or distinguished per- sons whom he has immortalised with ...
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... less shadow . The health and spirit that but now breathed from a speaking face , the next moment breathe with almost equal effect from a dull piece of canvas , and thus distract attention : the eye sparkles , the lips are moist there ...
... less shadow . The health and spirit that but now breathed from a speaking face , the next moment breathe with almost equal effect from a dull piece of canvas , and thus distract attention : the eye sparkles , the lips are moist there ...
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... less about himself than any living being . One reason for this differ- ence may have been , that as a writer he was tolerably successful in his life - time , and no doubt produced his works with very great facility . I hardly know ...
... less about himself than any living being . One reason for this differ- ence may have been , that as a writer he was tolerably successful in his life - time , and no doubt produced his works with very great facility . I hardly know ...
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... less ( if possible ) for you . He cares little about his own ad- vantages , if he can only make a jest at yours . Every feeling comes to him through a medium of levity and impertinence ; nor does he like to have this habit of mind ...
... less ( if possible ) for you . He cares little about his own ad- vantages , if he can only make a jest at yours . Every feeling comes to him through a medium of levity and impertinence ; nor does he like to have this habit of mind ...
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Page 72 - I have not loved the world, nor the world me ; I have not flatter'd its rank breath, nor bow'd To its idolatries a patient knee, — Nor coin'd my cheek to smiles, — nor cried aloud In worship of an echo ; in the crowd They could not deem me one of such ; I stood Among them, but not of them ; in a shroud Of thoughts which were not their thoughts, and still could, Had I not filed (') my mind, which thus itself subdued.
Page 193 - Nay, take my life and all; pardon not that. You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house ; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
Page 32 - Purification in the old law did save, And such, as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind. Her face was...
Page 228 - As a sick girl. Ye gods ! it doth amaze me A man of such a feeble temper should So get the start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone.
Page 30 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not; in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks.
Page 241 - But nature makes that mean : so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler...
Page 73 - I have not loved the world, nor the world me, — But let us part fair foes ; I do believe, Though I have found them not, that there may be Words which are things, — hopes which will not deceive, And virtues which are merciful, nor weave Snares for the failing ; I would also deem O'er others...
Page 88 - 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.
Page 66 - Howe'er disguised in its own majesty, Is littleness ; that he, who feels contempt For any living thing, hath faculties Which he has never used ; that thought with him Is in its infancy. The man, whose eye Is ever on himself, doth look on one, The least of nature's works, one who might move The wise man to that scorn which wisdom holds Unlawful, ever.
Page 6 - On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires; E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of th...