Best Thoughts of Best Thinkers: Amplified, Classified, Exemplified and Arranged as a Key to Unlock the Literature of All AgesBest thoughts publishing Company, 1904 - 643 pàgines |
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... or its better elements crystallized into an old scrap book , to touch the heart with fervent glow , or bring to mind with vivid force the days of Auld Lang Syne . stitute the literature they read . Words of meaning that FOREWORD . vii.
... or its better elements crystallized into an old scrap book , to touch the heart with fervent glow , or bring to mind with vivid force the days of Auld Lang Syne . stitute the literature they read . Words of meaning that FOREWORD . vii.
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... force than beauty is this : " A bigot's mind is like the pupil of the eye ; the more light you pour into it , the more it contracts . " In the next figure , ANTITHESIS , we shall employ that phase of comparison known as contrast . The ...
... force than beauty is this : " A bigot's mind is like the pupil of the eye ; the more light you pour into it , the more it contracts . " In the next figure , ANTITHESIS , we shall employ that phase of comparison known as contrast . The ...
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... force to penetrate the external orifice of my auricular appendages , and thence be con- ducted obliquely downward anteriorly through the tubular passages against the tympanum , which tympanum will readily communicate the force of these ...
... force to penetrate the external orifice of my auricular appendages , and thence be con- ducted obliquely downward anteriorly through the tubular passages against the tympanum , which tympanum will readily communicate the force of these ...
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... force or its sense , and as there is no pretension to beauty , there can be no claim to poetry . Senator Jackson appreciated this letter very highly , and in his reply gave evidence that he should be ranked with that class of grand old ...
... force or its sense , and as there is no pretension to beauty , there can be no claim to poetry . Senator Jackson appreciated this letter very highly , and in his reply gave evidence that he should be ranked with that class of grand old ...
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... faculties of the human mind are called into action , when we contemplate the handi- work of Omnipotence , as wrought out by the forces of nature -- and everywhere exhibited to our wondering gaze . Not PHILOSOPHY OF EXPRESSION . 25.
... faculties of the human mind are called into action , when we contemplate the handi- work of Omnipotence , as wrought out by the forces of nature -- and everywhere exhibited to our wondering gaze . Not PHILOSOPHY OF EXPRESSION . 25.
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Pàgina 199 - I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i' the imminent deadly breach, Of being taken by the insolent foe And sold to slavery, of my redemption thence And portance in my travels...
Pàgina 199 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Pàgina 199 - To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life...
Pàgina 68 - Infernal World! and thou, profoundest Hell, Receive thy new possessor - one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
Pàgina 199 - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.
Pàgina 138 - That to the observer doth thy history Fully unfold. Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Pàgina 199 - And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of link-ed sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running ; Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of Harmony : That Orpheus...
Pàgina 199 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature...
Pàgina 193 - From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire ; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world...
Pàgina 215 - And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.