The Tin Trumpet, Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish: To which are Added, Poetical Selections, Volumen1Whittaker & Company, 1836 - 279 páginas |
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... compared to heart - felt , practical , vital Christianity ; yet a more devout man I never knew . His religion was a senti- ment in which his whole heart was steeped , and which exhibited itself in an ever - present sense of profound ...
... compared to heart - felt , practical , vital Christianity ; yet a more devout man I never knew . His religion was a senti- ment in which his whole heart was steeped , and which exhibited itself in an ever - present sense of profound ...
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... compared to a drum , which has only one single tone ; but change of time gives it variety and cheerfulness enough . The infirmity of falsifying our age is at least as old as Cicero , who , hearing one of his contemporaries attempting to ...
... compared to a drum , which has only one single tone ; but change of time gives it variety and cheerfulness enough . The infirmity of falsifying our age is at least as old as Cicero , who , hearing one of his contemporaries attempting to ...
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... compared to the Nile , which has many mouths , and no discoverable head . Nobles sometimes illustrate that name about as much as an Italian Cicerone recalls the idea of Cicero . It is a double shame to a man to have derived distinction ...
... compared to the Nile , which has many mouths , and no discoverable head . Nobles sometimes illustrate that name about as much as an Italian Cicerone recalls the idea of Cicero . It is a double shame to a man to have derived distinction ...
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... comparing them with their predecessors . If architects at- tempt anything original , they are ridiculed for their pains , and desired to stick to the five orders . This is the sixth order of the public . If artists follow the bent of ...
... comparing them with their predecessors . If architects at- tempt anything original , they are ridiculed for their pains , and desired to stick to the five orders . This is the sixth order of the public . If artists follow the bent of ...
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... compared to industrious bees , not because they are armed with a sting , but because they gather honey from every flower , only that their hive may be plun- dered when their toil is completed . By the iniquitous law of copyright , an ...
... compared to industrious bees , not because they are armed with a sting , but because they gather honey from every flower , only that their hive may be plun- dered when their toil is completed . By the iniquitous law of copyright , an ...
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Página 48 - I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Chr — 's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Página 170 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
Página 158 - If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: for thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee.
Página 50 - Why no, Sir. Every body knows you are paid for affecting warmth for your client; and it is, therefore, properly no dissimulation: the moment you come from the bar you resume your usual behaviour. Sir, a man will no more carry the artifice of the bar into the common intercourse of society, than a man who is paid for tumbling upon his hands will continue to tumble upon his hands when he should walk on his feet.
Página 169 - There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out...
Página 148 - Go — you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away. There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay.
Página 83 - The Church, like the Ark of Noah, is worth saving: not for the sake of the unclean beasts that almost filled it, and probably made most noise and clamour in it, but for the little corner of rationality, that was as much distressed by the stink within, as by the tempest without.
Página 135 - The world that I regard is myself; it is the microcosm of my own frame that I cast mine eye on; for the other, I use it but like my globe, and turn it round sometimes for my recreation.
Página 107 - The old blind schoolmaster, John Milton, hath published a tedious poem on the Fall of Man ; — if its length be not considered as merit, it has no other.
Página 135 - Whilst I study to find how I am a microcosm, or little world, I find myself something more than the great. There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.