Selections from the Writings ...Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1854 |
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20. oldal
... talking or writing . With these merits , we cannot say that Mr. Edgeworth is either very new , very profound , or very apt to be right in his opinion . He is active , enterpris- ing , and unprejudiced ; but we have not been very much ...
... talking or writing . With these merits , we cannot say that Mr. Edgeworth is either very new , very profound , or very apt to be right in his opinion . He is active , enterpris- ing , and unprejudiced ; but we have not been very much ...
29. oldal
... talk is of Latin verses ; and it is quite clear , if men's ages are to be dated from the state of their mental progress , that such men are eighteen years of age , and not a day older . Their minds have been so completely possessed by ...
... talk is of Latin verses ; and it is quite clear , if men's ages are to be dated from the state of their mental progress , that such men are eighteen years of age , and not a day older . Their minds have been so completely possessed by ...
57. oldal
... talking of the common occupations of life , do not let us mistake the accidents for the occu- pations ; —when we are arguing how the twenty - three hours of the day are to be filled up , it is idle to tell us of those feelings and ...
... talking of the common occupations of life , do not let us mistake the accidents for the occu- pations ; —when we are arguing how the twenty - three hours of the day are to be filled up , it is idle to tell us of those feelings and ...
68. oldal
... talk of alkalis and angles , or to add to our stock of history and philology - though a little of these things is no bad ingredient in conversation ; but let the subject be what it may , there is always a prodigious difference between ...
... talk of alkalis and angles , or to add to our stock of history and philology - though a little of these things is no bad ingredient in conversation ; but let the subject be what it may , there is always a prodigious difference between ...
70. oldal
... talk wisely or look well . Every human being must put up with the coldest civility , who has neither the charms of youth nor the wisdom of age . Neither is there the slightest com- miseration for decayed accomplishments ; -no man mourns ...
... talk wisely or look well . Every human being must put up with the coldest civility , who has neither the charms of youth nor the wisdom of age . Neither is there the slightest com- miseration for decayed accomplishments ; -no man mourns ...
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200. oldal - He scarce had ceased when the superior Fiend Was moving toward the shore; his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At ev'ning from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe.
199. oldal - ... for wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy...
200. oldal - Wit, abstracted from its effects upon the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concors: a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike.
200. oldal - Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand He walk'd with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marie...
197. oldal - ... retorting an objection: sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a...
197. oldal - Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale ; sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their...
197. oldal - It raiseth admiration, as signifying a nimble sagacity of apprehension, a special felicity of invention, a vivacity of spirit, and reach of wit more than vulgar : it...
147. oldal - When we have had continually before us the great works of Art to impregnate our minds with kindred ideas, we are then, and not till then, fit to produce something of the same species. We behold all about us with the eyes of those penetrating observers whose works we contemplate ; and our minds, accustomed to think the thoughts of the noblest and brightest intellects, are prepared far the discovery and selection of all that is great and noble in nature.
237. oldal - The applauses of the theatre on which he performs are so essential to him, that he must obtain them at the expense of decency, friendship, and good feeling. It must always be probable, too, that a mere wit is a person of light and frivolous understanding. His business is not to discover relations of ideas that are useful, and have a real influence upon life, but to discover the more trifling relations which are only amusing ; he never looks at things with the naked eye of common sense...
147. oldal - ... being thought dull, they have thought it necessary to remain ignorant. I have seen, at school and at college, a great many young men completely destroyed by having been so unfortunate as to produce an excellent copy of verses. Their genius being now established, all that remained for them to do was to act up to the dignity of the character; and as this dignity consisted in reading nothing new, in forgetting what they had already read, and in pretending to be acquainted with all subjects by a...