The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things, Band 1Henry Colburn, 1826 - 472 Seiten |
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... talk in company . He argued that this was the fault of Addison's prose , and that its smooth , equable uniformity , and want of sharpness and spirit , arose from his not having familiarised his ear to the sound of his own voice , or at ...
... talk in company . He argued that this was the fault of Addison's prose , and that its smooth , equable uniformity , and want of sharpness and spirit , arose from his not having familiarised his ear to the sound of his own voice , or at ...
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... talk to them , but that we hear them make answers , and startle us with an observation or a piece of news ; and though we of course put the answer into their mouths , we have no idea beforehand what it will be , and it takes us as much ...
... talk to them , but that we hear them make answers , and startle us with an observation or a piece of news ; and though we of course put the answer into their mouths , we have no idea beforehand what it will be , and it takes us as much ...
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... talk , any more than he is bound to dance , or ride , or fence better than other people . Reading , study , silence , thought , are a bad introduction to loquacity . It would be sooner learnt of chambermaids and tapsters . He ...
... talk , any more than he is bound to dance , or ride , or fence better than other people . Reading , study , silence , thought , are a bad introduction to loquacity . It would be sooner learnt of chambermaids and tapsters . He ...
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... talk at all . You are obliged in despair to cut all your old acquaint- ance who are not au fait on the prevailing ... talk about much the same things , pictures , poetry , politics , plays ; but they do it worse , and at a sort of vapid ...
... talk at all . You are obliged in despair to cut all your old acquaint- ance who are not au fait on the prevailing ... talk about much the same things , pictures , poetry , politics , plays ; but they do it worse , and at a sort of vapid ...
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... talk almost entirely by rote . There are certain established modes of address , and certain answers to them expected as a matter of course , as a point of etiquette . The studied forms of politeness do not give the greatest possible ...
... talk almost entirely by rote . There are certain established modes of address , and certain answers to them expected as a matter of course , as a point of etiquette . The studied forms of politeness do not give the greatest possible ...
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Seite 144 - As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done : Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright : To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery.
Seite 145 - O'er-run and trampled on: then what they do in present, Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop yours ; For time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arms outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer : the welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing.
Seite 171 - Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race Disporting on thy margent green The paths of pleasure trace; Who foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm, thy glassy wave? The captive linnet which enthral? What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball?
Seite 411 - And time and place are lost: where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal Anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand. For Hot, Cold, Moist, and Dry, four champions fierce Strive here for mastery...
Seite 145 - ... hand, And with his arms outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer: welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing. O ! let not virtue seek Remuneration for the thing it was ; For beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin...
Seite 406 - Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise ; Born with whate'er could win it from the wise, 'Women and fools must like him, or he dies : Though wondering senates hung on all he spoke, The club must hail him master of the joke.
Seite 320 - Your worth and virtue ; and, as I did grow More and more apprehensive, I did thirst To see the man so praised. But yet all this Was but a maiden-longing, to be lost As soon as found ; till, sitting in my window, Printing my thoughts in lawn, I saw a god, I thought, (but it was you,) enter our gates : My blood flew out and back again, as fast As I had puffed it forth and sucked it in Like breath : then was I called away in haste To entertain you.
Seite 293 - Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues.
Seite 135 - The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion ; the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colors and their forms were then to me An appetite: a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Seite 144 - For honour travels in a strait so narrow Where one but goes abreast : keep, then, the path ; For emulation hath a thousand sons That one by one pursue : if you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by And leave YOU hindmost : Or, like a gallant horse fall'n in first rank, Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, O'errun and trampled on : then what they do in present, Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop yours.