 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....  Selections from the Writings ... - 237. oldalszerző: Rev. Sidney Smith - 1854Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | Marshman William Hazen - 1896 - 536 oldal
...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...always gazing at the world through a Claude Lorraine glass,—discovering a thousand appearances which are created only by the instrument of inspection,... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 466 oldal
...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...covering every object with factitious and unnatural colors. In short, the character of a mere wit it is impossible to consider as very amiable, very respectable,... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 452 oldal
...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...covering every object with factitious and unnatural colors. In short, the character of a mere wit it is impossible to consider as very amiable, very respectable,... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1850 - 870 oldal
...light and frivolous understanding. His business is not to discover relations of ideas that are vtefttl, and have a real influence upon life, but to discover...looks at things with the naked eye of common sense, bat is always gazing at the world through a Claude Lorraine glass— discovering a thousand appearances... | |
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