Table-talk: Or Original EssaysJohn Warren, 1821 - 400 pàgines |
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Pàgina 53
... principle in the human mind , the principle of action or will ; and of this the past has no hold , the future en- grosses it entirely to itself . It is this strong lever of the affections that gives so powerful a bias to our sentiments ...
... principle in the human mind , the principle of action or will ; and of this the past has no hold , the future en- grosses it entirely to itself . It is this strong lever of the affections that gives so powerful a bias to our sentiments ...
Pàgina 63
... principle of excessive irrita- bility to be seen at work in our more turbulent passions and pursuits , but even in the formal study of arts and sciences , the same thing takes place , and undermines the repose and happiness of life ...
... principle of excessive irrita- bility to be seen at work in our more turbulent passions and pursuits , but even in the formal study of arts and sciences , the same thing takes place , and undermines the repose and happiness of life ...
Pàgina 69
... principle exercised on loftier ground and in more unusual combinations . I am glad to shelter myself from the charge of affectation or singularity in this view of an often debated but ill - understood point , by quoting a passage from ...
... principle exercised on loftier ground and in more unusual combinations . I am glad to shelter myself from the charge of affectation or singularity in this view of an often debated but ill - understood point , by quoting a passage from ...
Pàgina 70
... principles falsely called rational , which we form to ourselves upon a supposition of what ought in reason to be the end or means of Art , independent of the known first effect produced by objects on the imagina- tion , must be false ...
... principles falsely called rational , which we form to ourselves upon a supposition of what ought in reason to be the end or means of Art , independent of the known first effect produced by objects on the imagina- tion , must be false ...
Pàgina 71
... principle , even of small and minute parts , involved in , or dependent on , a great system of things : -though these in pro- cess of time are forgotten , the right impression still remains fixed in his mind . " This impression is the ...
... principle , even of small and minute parts , involved in , or dependent on , a great system of things : -though these in pro- cess of time are forgotten , the right impression still remains fixed in his mind . " This impression is the ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 291 - 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.
Pàgina 281 - On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires; Even from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, Even in our ashes live their wonted fires.
Pàgina 230 - But he, his own affections' counsellor, Is to himself — I will not say, how true — • But to himself so secret and so close, So far from sounding and discovery, As is the bud bit with an envious worm, Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air, Or dedicate his beauty to the sun.
Pàgina 226 - 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...
Pàgina 224 - For either He never shall find out fit mate, but such As some misfortune brings him, or mistake ; Or whom he wishes most shall seldom gain, Through her perverseness, but shall see her...
Pàgina 339 - For perfect beauty in any species must combine all the characters which are beautiful in that species. It cannot consist in any one to the exclusion of the rest : no one, therefore, must be predominant, that no one may be deficient.
Pàgina 234 - There is no part of the world from whence we may not admire those planets which roll, like ours, in different orbits, round the same central sun ; from whence we may not discover an object still more stupendous, that army of fixed stars hung up in the immense space of the universe ; innumerable suns, whose beams enlighten and cherish the unknown worlds which roll around them : and whilst I am ravished by such contemplations as these, whilst my soul is thus raised up to heaven, it imports me little...
Pàgina 215 - 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.
Pàgina 219 - Malbrook to the wars is going " — he did not think of the tumble he has got since, the shock of which no one could have stood but himself. We see and hear chiefly of the favourites of Fortune and the Muse, of great generals, of first-rate actors, of celebrated poets. These are at the head; we are struck with the glittering eminence on which they stand, and long to set out on the same tempting career: — not thinking how many discontented half-pay lieutenants are in vain seeking promotion all their...
Pàgina 337 - I have laid down, that the idea of beauty in each species of beings is an invariable one, it may be objected, that in every particular species there are various central forms, which are separate and distinct from each other, and yet are undeniably beautiful ; that in the human figure, for instance, the beauty of Hercules is one, of the Gladiator another, of the Apollo another ; which makes so many different ideas of beauty.