Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and ThingsWiley & Putnam, 1846 |
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... SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED 204 XVII . ON QUALIFICATIONS NECESSARY TO SUCCESS IN LIFE XVIII . MADAME PASTA AND MADEMOISELLE MARS 222 239 XIX . SIR Walter Scott , Racine , anD SHAKSPEARE 253 TABLE TALK . ESSAY I. On the feeling of immortality.
... SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED 204 XVII . ON QUALIFICATIONS NECESSARY TO SUCCESS IN LIFE XVIII . MADAME PASTA AND MADEMOISELLE MARS 222 239 XIX . SIR Walter Scott , Racine , anD SHAKSPEARE 253 TABLE TALK . ESSAY I. On the feeling of immortality.
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... successful , is accompanied with a sense of being in the vulture's gripe - a reflection akin to that of those who for- merly sold themselves to the devil - or , if unsuccessful , is rendered doubly galling by the smooth , civil leer of ...
... successful , is accompanied with a sense of being in the vulture's gripe - a reflection akin to that of those who for- merly sold themselves to the devil - or , if unsuccessful , is rendered doubly galling by the smooth , civil leer of ...
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... successful portrait - painters . For this purpose it is desirable to bring a friend , who may relieve guard , or fill up the pauses of conversation , occasioned by the necessary attention of the painter to his business , and by the ...
... successful portrait - painters . For this purpose it is desirable to bring a friend , who may relieve guard , or fill up the pauses of conversation , occasioned by the necessary attention of the painter to his business , and by the ...
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... success prompts us to go on . cil , or lay it down again , as we please . as objects strike our senses or our reflection . ure we feel turns labor to a luxury . We try to imitate the grey color of a rock or of the bark of a tree : the ...
... success prompts us to go on . cil , or lay it down again , as we please . as objects strike our senses or our reflection . ure we feel turns labor to a luxury . We try to imitate the grey color of a rock or of the bark of a tree : the ...
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... success into the very haven of our desires , almost im- perceptibly . The strength of the impulse by which we are car- ried along prevents the sense of difficulty or resistance : the true inspiration of the Muse is soft and balmy as the ...
... success into the very haven of our desires , almost im- perceptibly . The strength of the impulse by which we are car- ried along prevents the sense of difficulty or resistance : the true inspiration of the Muse is soft and balmy as the ...
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abstract actor admiration appear artist beauty Beggar's Opera better character colors common Correggio criticism delight Della Cruscan Edinburgh Review effect effeminacy Elgin marbles English ESSAY excellence expression face fancy favorite feeling figure fortune genius give grace hand head heart human idea imagination imitation instance Julius Cæsar king laugh less living look Lord Lord Byron Louvre Mademoiselle Mars main chance manner means merit Michael Angelo mind moral nature never object once opinion painted painter passion Paul Veronese person picture play pleasure poet portrait pretensions principle racter Raphael reason Rembrandt respect SECOND SERIES-PART seems sense Shakspeare Sir Joshua Sir Walter Scott Sonnets sort soul speak spirit style supposed talk taste things thought throw tion Titian truth turn understanding vanity vulgar Whig whole wonder words write
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Página 72 - I have not loved the world, nor the world me ; I have not flatter'd its rank breath, nor bow'd To its idolatries a patient knee, — Nor coin'd my cheek to smiles, — nor cried aloud In worship of an echo ; in the crowd They could not deem me one of such ; I stood Among them, but not of them ; in a shroud Of thoughts which were not their thoughts, and still could, Had I not filed (') my mind, which thus itself subdued.
Página 193 - Nay, take my life and all; pardon not that. You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house ; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
Página 32 - Purification in the old law did save, And such, as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind. Her face was...
Página 228 - As a sick girl. Ye gods ! it doth amaze me A man of such a feeble temper should So get the start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone.
Página 30 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not; in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks.
Página 241 - But nature makes that mean : so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler...
Página 73 - I have not loved the world, nor the world me, — But let us part fair foes ; I do believe, Though I have found them not, that there may be Words which are things, — hopes which will not deceive, And virtues which are merciful, nor weave Snares for the failing ; I would also deem O'er others...
Página 88 - Merciful heaven! What, man! ne'er pull your hat upon your brows; Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.
Página 66 - Howe'er disguised in its own majesty, Is littleness ; that he, who feels contempt For any living thing, hath faculties Which he has never used ; that thought with him Is in its infancy. The man, whose eye Is ever on himself, doth look on one, The least of nature's works, one who might move The wise man to that scorn which wisdom holds Unlawful, ever.
Página 6 - On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires; E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of th...