And though nature be the mirror of our moods — we can yet sometimes escape ourselves — as we can sometimes forget all laws. " Go abroad and forget yourself," is good advice. The Prodigal was long and ruinously abroad before he came to himself. And... Nile Notes of a Howadji - Page 102by George William Curtis - 1851 - 320 pagesFull view - About this book
| George William Curtis - 1851 - 354 pages
...will respond, fat friend of the warm slippers, and you will take down your Coleridge and find, " 0 lady, we receive but what we give, And in our life...fool is always in paradise. But into that delight £ wise man can no more penetrate, than a soul into a stone. If you are a fool, 0 friendly reader of... | |
| George William Curtis - Egypt - 1852 - 318 pages
...mirror of our moods—we can yet sometimes escape ourselves—as we can sometimes forget all laws. " Gro abroad and forget yourself," is good advice. The Prodigal...rising sun. Traveling is a fool's paradise, to a fool. Bat to him, staying at home is the same thing. A fool is always in paradise. But into that delight... | |
| 1855 - 518 pages
...passion when he said it, and irritably irrational accordingly — the poetry ;»:Horat. Carm. i. 1. t "You would fancy Thomson an early riser, yet that...garden, eat fruit from the trees with his hands in his pockets, and then and there composed sonorous apostrophes to the rising sun." — Nile Notes, chap.... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1855 - 516 pages
...passion when he said it, and irritably irrational accordingly — the poetry * Horat. Carm. i. 1. f " You would fancy Thomson an early riser, yet that placid...garden, eat fruit from the trees with his hands in his pockets, and then and there composed sonorous apostrophes to the rising sun." — Nile Notes, chap.... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1855 - 520 pages
...passion when he said it, and irritably irrational accordingly — the poetry » Herat. Carm. i. 1. f " You would fancy Thomson an early riser, yet that placid...and sauntering into the garden, eat fruit from the trces with his hands in his pockets, and thcn and there composed sonorous apostrophes to the rising... | |
| James Thomson - Criticism - 1881 - 358 pages
...for those who have the talisman of entry into that serenest Castle of Indolence, "which he has made the House Beautiful, so that all who pass are fain to tarry therein." And the Lotus Eaters is so decidedly the best work of our weak and exquisite Tennyson, that... | |
| William Power - 1926 - 280 pages
...for those who have the talisman of entry into that serenest Castle of Indolence, ' which he has made the House Beautiful, so that all who pass are fain to tarry therein.' " The athletic catholicity of the Elizabethans appealed to him : — " If Siloa's brook and... | |
| 1855 - 1504 pages
...illustrative cases in point Кяюпт'з Biograflty of Shok »peare, p. 137. t Horat. Carm. i. I. j " You would fancy Thomson an early riser, yet that placid...into the garden, eat fruit from the trees with his nands ïh his pockets, and then and there composed sonorous apostrophes to the rising sun." — JVife... | |
| George William Curtis - Egypt - 1856 - 384 pages
...desk." And though nature be the mirror of our moods-— we can yet sometimes escape ourselves—as we can sometimes forget all laws. " Go abroad and...noon, and, sauntering into the garden, eat fruit from tlie trees with his hands in Ms pockets, and then and there composed sonorous apostrophes to the rising... | |
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