The Tin Trumpet, Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish: To which are Added, Poetical Selections, Volum 2Whittaker & Company, 1836 - 295 pàgines |
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Pàgina 3
... turning the tables upon his opponent , when he found himself losing , has recorded one of his exploits . He was rapidly losing ground in a literary discussion , when the opposite party exclaimed , " My good friend , you are not such a ...
... turning the tables upon his opponent , when he found himself losing , has recorded one of his exploits . He was rapidly losing ground in a literary discussion , when the opposite party exclaimed , " My good friend , you are not such a ...
Pàgina 37
... turns our moral honey into gall , we may always reverse the process by straying amid the flowers of the country . MOUTH - An useless instrument to some people , in its capacity , by the organs of speech , of rendering ideas audible ...
... turns our moral honey into gall , we may always reverse the process by straying amid the flowers of the country . MOUTH - An useless instrument to some people , in its capacity , by the organs of speech , of rendering ideas audible ...
Pàgina 56
... turn the dictum of the writer against himself , and infer that he gave us all his bad advice from a contrary feeling ? Well may the portrait be dark , when the misanthrope draws from himself ! ” OMEN - The imaginary language of heaven ...
... turn the dictum of the writer against himself , and infer that he gave us all his bad advice from a contrary feeling ? Well may the portrait be dark , when the misanthrope draws from himself ! ” OMEN - The imaginary language of heaven ...
Pàgina 62
... turn , generally without having the least suspicion of it , to bring me the offering of their thoughts , their faculties , their experience : often have they sowed the harvest I have reaped . My work is that of an aggre- gation of human ...
... turn , generally without having the least suspicion of it , to bring me the offering of their thoughts , their faculties , their experience : often have they sowed the harvest I have reaped . My work is that of an aggre- gation of human ...
Pàgina 76
... turn , but the man put two fingers into his ears , and ran on , crying Life ! Life ! Eternal Life ! So he looked not behind him , but fled towards the middle of the plain . " So uniform are the results of fanaticism , even when ...
... turn , but the man put two fingers into his ears , and ran on , crying Life ! Life ! Eternal Life ! So he looked not behind him , but fled towards the middle of the plain . " So uniform are the results of fanaticism , even when ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 162 - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow • warmer among the ruins of lona.
Pàgina 193 - Is lightened ; that serene and blessed mood In which the affections gently lead us on, Until the breath of this corporeal frame, And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul; While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.
Pàgina 33 - For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts...
Pàgina 78 - Who has not a thousand times seen snow fall on water? Who has not watched it with a new feeling from the time that he has read Burns...
Pàgina 159 - Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion 'were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.
Pàgina 33 - For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.
Pàgina 62 - Every one of my writings has been furnished to me by a thousand different persons, a thousand different things : the...
Pàgina 49 - ... nam neque quies gentium sine armis neque arma sine stipendiis neque stipendia sine tributis haberi queunt.
Pàgina 20 - Then, Sir, you are not of opinion with some who imagine that certain men and certain women are made for each other; and that they cannot be happy if they miss their counterparts.
Pàgina 1 - The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry'Hold, hold!