Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, Volume 270F. Jefferies, 1891 |
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... less imperfectly under- stood than those of other arts . To know great works of painting or sculpture , and to distinguish them from the false and trivial , is almost the business of a lifetime . The mere light of nature carries us but ...
... less imperfectly under- stood than those of other arts . To know great works of painting or sculpture , and to distinguish them from the false and trivial , is almost the business of a lifetime . The mere light of nature carries us but ...
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... less volume ; whither they came , not so much for repose as study , and to examine and refine those grosser propositions which laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation , But even this is not the classical illustration of ...
... less volume ; whither they came , not so much for repose as study , and to examine and refine those grosser propositions which laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation , But even this is not the classical illustration of ...
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... less amount of social oxygen makes all the difference between languid or commonplace exchange of words and brilliant conversation . Amongst the chief social conditions are these . The members of any social group must neither be too ...
... less amount of social oxygen makes all the difference between languid or commonplace exchange of words and brilliant conversation . Amongst the chief social conditions are these . The members of any social group must neither be too ...
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... less fatal than intellectual feebleness . Men such as the Mr. Brook of George Eliot's " Middlemarch " would exasperate an Archbishop and depress an Archangel . Nor is another form of mental inequality less injurious to conversation ...
... less fatal than intellectual feebleness . Men such as the Mr. Brook of George Eliot's " Middlemarch " would exasperate an Archbishop and depress an Archangel . Nor is another form of mental inequality less injurious to conversation ...
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... less - known tale of two French monologists pitted against each other . " One was in full possession , but so intent was the other upon striking in that a third person , watching the contest , exclaimed , ' If he spits , he's done ...
... less - known tale of two French monologists pitted against each other . " One was in full possession , but so intent was the other upon striking in that a third person , watching the contest , exclaimed , ' If he spits , he's done ...
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Page 68 - Nick, in shape o' beast; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge: He screw'd the pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a...
Page 17 - Vicar. His talk was like a stream, which runs With rapid change from rocks to roses: It slipped from politics to puns, It passed from Mahomet to Moses; Beginning with the laws which keep The planets in their radiant courses, And ending with some precept deep For dressing eels, or shoeing horses.
Page 369 - Now I'ma wretch, indeed. Methinks I see him already in the cart, sweeter and more lovely than the nosegay in his hand!— I hear the crowd extolling his resolution and intrepidity! What volleys of sighs are sent from the windows of Holborn, that so comely a youth should be brought to disgrace! I see him at the treel The whole circle are in tears! —even butchers weep!
Page 621 - With lust and violence the house of God? In courts and palaces he also reigns And in luxurious cities, where the noise Of riot ascends above their loftiest towers, And injury and outrage : and when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
Page 9 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life!
Page 633 - While all melts under our feet, we may well catch at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to knowledge that seems, by a lifted horizon, to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange flowers, and curious odours, or work of the artist's hands, or the face of one's friend.
Page 486 - I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use ! As tho
Page 486 - There was a rocky valley between Buxton and Bakewell, once upon a time, divine as the Vale of Tempe; you might have seen the Gods there morning and evening — Apollo and all the sweet Muses of the light — walking in fair procession on the lawns of it, and to and fro among the pinnacles of its crags.
Page 193 - Let me have men about me that are fat ; Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights. Yond' Cassius has a lean and hungry look ; He thinks too much : such men are dangerous.
Page 9 - In this time, his house being within little more than ten miles of Oxford, he contracted familiarity and friendship with the most polite and accurate men of that university, who found such an immenseness of wit and such a solidity of judgment in him, so infinite a fancy, bound in by a most logical ratiocination, such a vast knowledge, that he was not ignorant in...