 | Oliver Elton - English literature - 1920 - 484 pages
...employing his talents to corrupt himself. Nature has been kinder to Mr. Burke than he is to her. He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy semblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird. Paine... | |
 | Oliver Elton - English literature - 1924 - 482 pages
...employing his talents to corrupt himself. Nature has been kinder to Mr. Burke than he is to her. He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy semblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird. Paine... | |
 | Paul Carus - Religion - 1921 - 860 pages
...Marie Antoinette is well-known, ''Nature has been kinder to Mr. Burke than he is to her. He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart,...imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird".18 Less familiar is a beautiful saying of his, "to believe that God created a plurality of world's... | |
 | Thomas Paine - History - 1974 - 268 pages
...employing his talents to corrupt himself. Nature has been kinder to Mr. Burke than he is to her. He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblage of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird. Accustomed... | |
 | David A. Wilson - Electronic books - 1988 - 252 pages
...the most wretched of lives, a life without hope, in the most miserable of prisons. . . . He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblage of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird." From... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Reference - 1989 - 414 pages
...man who will not laugh is a fool. George Santayana (1863-1952) American philosopher, poet He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart,...He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird. Thomas Paine (1737-1809) Anglo-American writer of Edmund Burke See Arnold on RELIGION Empire Not once... | |
 | Sy Safransky - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1990 - 174 pages
...those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move. — Arabian proverb Burke is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart,...He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird. — Thomas Paine Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. —... | |
 | Syndy M. Conger - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 248 pages
...good argument; the problem is that Burke's feelings are not spontaneous, and therefore not authentic: "he degenerates into a composition of art, and the genuine soul of nature forsakes him." Like Burke, Paine judges the authority both of himself and of his opponents against a standard of consciousness,... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Reference - 1993 - 1214 pages
...German philosopher. Twilight of the Idols, "Expeditions of an Unlimely Man," aph. 28 (1889). 7 He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart,...He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird. THOMAS PAINE (1 737-1809), Anglo-American political theorist, writer. The Rights ofMjn, "Rights of... | |
 | Steven Bruhm - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 210 pages
...by his classical representation of Louis and Marie Antoinette affect him, in Paine's words, "not ... by the reality of distress touching his heart, but...He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird" (51 ) . By Burke's reasoning, argues Paine, we would end up pitying Othello for his downfall, rather... | |
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He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird. 
