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... mean éclat , showed them that seat of the Muses at a distance , " With glistering spires and pinnacles adorn'd- ” descanted on the learned air that breathes from the grassy quadrangles and stone walls of halls and cottages , was at home ...
... mean éclat , showed them that seat of the Muses at a distance , " With glistering spires and pinnacles adorn'd- ” descanted on the learned air that breathes from the grassy quadrangles and stone walls of halls and cottages , was at home ...
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... mean and quite unimportant anecdote of the family . He knew it when it was not quite so flourishing as he is " blest in seeing it now . " He reviveth past situations to institute what he calleth favorable comparisons . With a reflecting ...
... mean and quite unimportant anecdote of the family . He knew it when it was not quite so flourishing as he is " blest in seeing it now . " He reviveth past situations to institute what he calleth favorable comparisons . With a reflecting ...
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... them above the influence of danger and of corruption . It sometimes might lead them to pursue unwise ends , but never to choose unwise means . They went through the world , like Sir Artegal's iron man Talus with Milton and the Puritans 39.
... them above the influence of danger and of corruption . It sometimes might lead them to pursue unwise ends , but never to choose unwise means . They went through the world , like Sir Artegal's iron man Talus with Milton and the Puritans 39.
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... means numerous , but distinguished by learn- ing and ability , which acted with them on very different principles . We speak of those whom Cromwell was accustomed to call the Heathens , men who were , in the phraseology of that time ...
... means numerous , but distinguished by learn- ing and ability , which acted with them on very different principles . We speak of those whom Cromwell was accustomed to call the Heathens , men who were , in the phraseology of that time ...
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... means of liberating the captive . They thought only of conquering when they should have thought of disenchanting . १ " Oh , ye mistook ! Ye should have snatched his wand And bound him fast . Without the rod reversed , And backward ...
... means of liberating the captive . They thought only of conquering when they should have thought of disenchanting . १ " Oh , ye mistook ! Ye should have snatched his wand And bound him fast . Without the rod reversed , And backward ...
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Page 2 - Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Page 72 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
Page 123 - I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived...
Page 124 - ... because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise Designation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life...
Page 89 - Insist on yourself ; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation ; but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him.
Page 64 - Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Page 140 - And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men.
Page 67 - They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it.
Page 65 - Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine Providence has found for you; the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
Page 130 - Let us settle ourselves and work and wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion and prejudice and tradition and delusion and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe, through Paris and London, through New York and Boston and Concord, through church and state, through poetry and philosophy and religion, till we come to a hard bottom and rocks in place, which we can call reality, and say, This is, and no mistake...