Caxtoniana: a Series of Essays on Life, Literature, and MannersHarper & brothers, 1864 - 441 páginas |
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Página 335 - To be read by bare inscriptions like many in Gruter, to hope for eternity by enigmatical epithets or first letters of our names, to be studied by antiquaries who we were, and have new names given us like many of the mummies, are cold consolations unto the students of perpetuity, even by everlasting languages.
Página 187 - ... the morrow. We shall once more value ends above means and prefer the good to the useful. We shall honour those who can teach us how to pluck the hour and the day virtuously and well, the delightful people who are capable of taking direct enjoyment in things, the lilies of the field who toil not, neither do they spin.
Página 439 - Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to nought.
Página 70 - Having settled these essential preliminaries — 1st, Never to borrow where there is a chance, however remote, that you may not be able to repay ; 2dly, Never to lend what you are not prepared to give ; 3dly, Never to guarantee for another what you...
Página 342 - First, I commend my soul into the hands of God my creator, hoping, and assuredly believing, through the only merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour, to be made partaker of life everlasting; and my body to the earth whereof it is made.
Página 110 - Upon the importance of concentration we need not dwell. While avoiding narrowness, we must remember that it will be impossible to accumulate much reserved power if we dissipate our strength upon many objects, instead of using it with economy and directing it to one grand end. But how shall we use it...
Página 112 - In woman there is at once a subtle delicacy of tact, and a plain soundness of judgment, which are rarely combined to an equal degree in man. A woman, if she be really your friend, will have a sensitive regard for your character, honour, repute.
Página 112 - A man's best female friend is a wife of good sense and good heart, whom he loves, and who loves him. If he have that, he need not seek elsewhere. But supposing the man to be without such a helpmate, female...
Página 114 - Conducted into an oldfashioned little greenhouse, which served as a vinery, my Lord gazed, with mortification and envy, on grapes twice as fine as his own. "My dear friend," said my Lord, "you have a jewel of a gardener; let me see him!
Página 430 - Pound's argument implicitly denies a traditional distinction between science and poetry. Customarily, the scientist speaks to a small community of fellow scientists, whereas the poet speaks to a more diverse audience. As Edward Bulwer-Lytton observes: "In science, address the few; in literature, the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to the many; in literature, the many, sooner or later, force their judgment on the...