A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose: From American and Foreign Authors, Including Translations from Ancient SourcesAnna Lydia Ward T. Y. Crowell, 1889 - 701 páginas |
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... kind or other . 92 Burke : On the Sublime and the Beautiful . That exorbitant appetite and desire of honor , which we commonly call ambition ; love of money , which is covetous- ness , and that greedy desire of gain ; self - love ...
... kind or other . 92 Burke : On the Sublime and the Beautiful . That exorbitant appetite and desire of honor , which we commonly call ambition ; love of money , which is covetous- ness , and that greedy desire of gain ; self - love ...
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... kind of pedantry , while a faulty poem or picture may be great because a great thought of character is in it . The best workman is he who adapts means to the noblest end , and we tire of those who , with no message to deliver ...
... kind of pedantry , while a faulty poem or picture may be great because a great thought of character is in it . The best workman is he who adapts means to the noblest end , and we tire of those who , with no message to deliver ...
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... kind , could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve : it is his own indefeasible light , that judgment of his ; he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone ! 435 Carlyle : Heroes and Hero Worship . as a ...
... kind , could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve : it is his own indefeasible light , that judgment of his ; he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone ! 435 Carlyle : Heroes and Hero Worship . as a ...
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... kind of writing , which has truth and instruc- tion for its main object , so interesting and popular , on the whole , as biography . History , in its larger sense , has to deal with masses , which , while they divide the attention by ...
... kind of writing , which has truth and instruc- tion for its main object , so interesting and popular , on the whole , as biography . History , in its larger sense , has to deal with masses , which , while they divide the attention by ...
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... kind , which are delivered down from generation to genera- tion , as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn . 477 Addison : The Spectator . No. 166 . A good book is fruitful of other books ; it perpetuates its fame from ...
... kind , which are delivered down from generation to genera- tion , as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn . 477 Addison : The Spectator . No. 166 . A good book is fruitful of other books ; it perpetuates its fame from ...
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A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose: From American and Foreign Authors ... Anna Lydia Ward Visualização integral - 1889 |
A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose: From American and Foreign Authors ... Anna Lydia Ward Visualização integral - 1889 |
A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose: From American and Foreign Authors ... Anna Lydia Ward Visualização integral - 1889 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
A. W. Hare Amiel B. R. Haydon beauty Ben Jonson Ben-Hur Books Boswell's Bronson Alcott Bruyère Carlyle character Christian death Disraeli Earl divine Earl of Beaconsfield Epictetus Friendship genius George Birkbeck George Birkbeck Hill George Eliot Gold-Foil Hapgood happiness hath Hazlitt heart Henry Ward Beecher Hero honor human Humphrey Ward Imaginary Conversations Isaac Disraeli J. C. and A. W. James Abram Garfield Johnson Joseph Roux King Henry labor Landor Lectures Letters and Social Lew Wallace liberty live Lowell man's mind Moral Maxims nature never Note-Book Orations Oxford edition Parish Priest Plymouth Pulpit poet Poetry Poor Richard's Almanac Proverbs from Plymouth religion Rochefoucauld Ruskin Sentences and Moral Sermons Shakespeare soul Speech Table Talk things Thomas thou thought Timothy Titcomb J. G. Titcomb J. G. Holland Trans Translator true Victor Hugo virtue William Ellery Channing wisdom
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Página 109 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised: thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet.
Página 57 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Página 387 - A' made a finer end and went away an it had been any christom child; a' parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide: for after I saw him fumble with the sheets and play with flowers and smile upon his fingers...
Página 457 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Página 418 - I will compose poetry". The greatest poet even cannot say it; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness...
Página 463 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Página 546 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?
Página 326 - There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is — to teach; the function of the second is — to move: the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy.
Página 445 - Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school : and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and, contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill.
Página 120 - I will ask him for my place again ; he shall tell me I am a drunkard ! Had I as many mouths as Hydra, such an answer would stop them all. To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast ! O strange ! Every inordinate cup is unblessed and the ingredient is a devil.