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... thought , than that which would confine all excellence , or arrogate its final accomplishment to the present , or modern times . We ordinarily speak and think of those who had the misfortune to write or live before us , as labouring ...
... thought , than that which would confine all excellence , or arrogate its final accomplishment to the present , or modern times . We ordinarily speak and think of those who had the misfortune to write or live before us , as labouring ...
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... thoughts they could conceive , " in the absence of all those topics that so agreeably enliven and diversify our conversation and literature , mistak- ing the imperfection of our knowledge for the defect of their organs , as if it was ...
... thoughts they could conceive , " in the absence of all those topics that so agreeably enliven and diversify our conversation and literature , mistak- ing the imperfection of our knowledge for the defect of their organs , as if it was ...
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... thoughts , or as if , because they did not see with our eyes , hear with our ears , and understand with our understandings , they could hear , see , and understand nothing . A falser inference could not be drawn , nor one more contrary ...
... thoughts , or as if , because they did not see with our eyes , hear with our ears , and understand with our understandings , they could hear , see , and understand nothing . A falser inference could not be drawn , nor one more contrary ...
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... thought and experience . We are quite wrong in supposing ( as we are apt to do ) , that we can plead an exclusive title to wit and wisdom , to taste and genius , as the net produce and clear reversion of the age we live in , and that ...
... thought and experience . We are quite wrong in supposing ( as we are apt to do ) , that we can plead an exclusive title to wit and wisdom , to taste and genius , as the net produce and clear reversion of the age we live in , and that ...
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... thought , as a matter of literary courtesy and enlargement of taste , we are afraid of coming to the proof , as too great a trial of our candour and patience . We regard the en- thusiastic admiration of these obsolete authors , or a ...
... thought , as a matter of literary courtesy and enlargement of taste , we are afraid of coming to the proof , as too great a trial of our candour and patience . We regard the en- thusiastic admiration of these obsolete authors , or a ...
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Page 29 - Your face, my thane, is as a book, where men May read strange matters : — To beguile the time, Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it.
Page 225 - But hail, thou goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy! Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight...
Page 225 - Fountain heads, and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves ! Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly housed, save bats and owls ! A midnight bell, a parting groan ! These are the sounds we feed upon ; Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley, Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.
Page 299 - ... daily haunts us with dying mementos, and time that grows old in itself, bids us hope no long duration, diuturnity is a dream and folly of expectation.
Page 312 - ... burial, and we shall perceive the distance to be very great and very strange. But so have I seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and at first it was fair as the morning, and full with the dew of heaven as a lamb's fleece; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age; it bowed the head...
Page 226 - Like to the falling of a star; Or as the flights of eagles are; Or like the fresh spring's gaudy hue; Or silver drops of morning dew; Or like a wind that chafes the flood; Or bubbles which on water stood; Even such is man, whose borrowed light Is straight called in, and paid to night. The wind blows out; the bubble dies; The spring entombed in autumn lies; The dew dries up; the star is shot; The flight is past; and man forgot.
Page 291 - Homer continued twenty-five hundred years, or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar, no nor of the kings or great personages of much later years; for the originals cannot last, and the copies cannot but lose of the life and truth.
Page 55 - At cards for kisses — Cupid paid; He stakes his quiver, bow and arrows, His mother's doves, and team of sparrows; Loses them too; then down he throws The coral of his lip, the rose Growing on's cheek (but none knows how), With these, the crystal of his brow, And then the dimple of his chin; All these did my Campaspe win. At last he set her both his eyes, She won, and Cupid blind did rise. O Love! has she done this to thee? What shall, alas! become of me? THE SONGS OF BIRDS What bird so sings, yet...
Page 253 - SOME ask'd me where the rubies grew, And nothing I did say : But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia. Some ask'd how pearls did grow, and where ; Then spoke I to my girl, To part her lips, and show'd them there The quarelets of Pearl.
Page 59 - Shall I make spirits fetch me what I please, Resolve me of all ambiguities, Perform what desperate enterprise I will? I'll have them fly to India for gold, Ransack the ocean for orient pearl, And search all corners of the new-found world For pleasant fruits and princely delicates.