Imaginary conversations. Third series : Conversations of literary men (First series)Chapman and Hall, 1876 |
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... Thou too wouldst breathe more freely for it , Age ! Who lackest heart to laugh at life's deceit . It sometimes requires a stout push , and sometimes a sudden resist- ance , in the wisest men , not to become for a moment the most foolish ...
... Thou too wouldst breathe more freely for it , Age ! Who lackest heart to laugh at life's deceit . It sometimes requires a stout push , and sometimes a sudden resist- ance , in the wisest men , not to become for a moment the most foolish ...
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... thou art far away , We hold thee dearer than the light of day , And most when Love forsakes us wish thee ours : O hither bend thy flight ! Silent and welcome as the blessed shade Alcestis to the dark Thessalian hall , When Hercules and ...
... thou art far away , We hold thee dearer than the light of day , And most when Love forsakes us wish thee ours : O hither bend thy flight ! Silent and welcome as the blessed shade Alcestis to the dark Thessalian hall , When Hercules and ...
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... Thou crown the cup or join the dance , Neither in anger nor in sport ; For Pleasure then would pass me by , The Graces look ungraciously , Love frown , and drive me from his court . Brooke . Considering the chances and changes of ...
... Thou crown the cup or join the dance , Neither in anger nor in sport ; For Pleasure then would pass me by , The Graces look ungraciously , Love frown , and drive me from his court . Brooke . Considering the chances and changes of ...
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... thou art , Thou must needs , I think , have had , Celandine ! and long ago , Praise of which I 64 [ CONVERSATIONS , WORKS OF LANDOR .
... thou art , Thou must needs , I think , have had , Celandine ! and long ago , Praise of which I 64 [ CONVERSATIONS , WORKS OF LANDOR .
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... thou confidant of our Creator ! who alone hast taught us in every particle of the mind how wonderfully and fearfully we are made . Delille . Voltaire was indeed too severe upon him . Landor . Severe ? Is it severity to throw a crab or a ...
... thou confidant of our Creator ! who alone hast taught us in every particle of the mind how wonderfully and fearfully we are made . Delille . Voltaire was indeed too severe upon him . Landor . Severe ? Is it severity to throw a crab or a ...
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Page 383 - There is no excellent Beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Page 518 - What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones The labour of an age in piled stones ? Or that his hallowed reliques should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What needst thou such weak witness of thy name ? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
Page 375 - 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.
Page 366 - That which is past is gone and irrevocable, and wise men have enough to do with things present and to come; therefore they do but trifle with themselves that labour in past matters. There is no man doth a wrong for the wrong's sake, but thereby to purchase himself profit, or pleasure, or honour, or the like; therefore why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me? And if any man should do wrong, merely out of...
Page 443 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold...
Page 374 - It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an Opinion as is unworthy of him : for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely : and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose :
Page 127 - Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot; Or garden tempting with forbidden fruit.
Page 382 - Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Page 386 - Certainly, fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid...
Page 44 - He spake of love, such love as spirits feel In worlds whose course is equable and pure ; No fears to beat away, no strife to heal, The past unsighed for, and the future sure...