 | William Hazlitt - Authors and publishers - 1821 - 420 pages
...strong hold of things, does not grapple with the world about him, but slides from it like a river — " And in its liquid texture mortal wound Receives no more than can the fluid air." The shock of accident, the weight of authority make no impression on his opinions, which retire like... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1822 - 598 pages
...they do, then you have surely every reason to be satisfied with them. The mind, in what depends on itself alone, " soon rises from defeat unhurt," though...to the celebrity of the artist's name. They did not hit me formerly : the sky, the water, the trees seemed all too blue, too much of the colour of indigo.... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1822 - 594 pages
...they do, then you have surely every reason to be satisfied with them. The mind, in what depends on itself alone, " soon rises from defeat unhurt," though...than can the fluid air." As an illustration of the вате thing, there are two Claudes at Burleigh, which certainly do not come up to the celebrity... | |
 | 1822 - 600 pages
...they do, then you have surely every reason to be satisfied with them. The mind, in what depends on itself alone, " soon rises from defeat unhurt," though...mortal wound Receives no more than can the fluid air." seemed all too blue, too much of the colour of indigo. But I believed, and wondered. I could no longer... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1822 - 612 pages
...they do, then you have surely every reason to be satisfied with them. The mind, in what depends on itself alone, " soon rises from defeat unhurt," though...mortal wound Receives no more than can the fluid air." seemed all too blue, too much of the colour of indigo. But I believed, and wondered. I could no longer... | |
 | 1822 - 592 pages
...they do, then you have surely every reason to be satisfied with them. The mind, in what depends on itself alone, " soon rises from defeat unhurt," though...mortal wound Receives no more than can the fluid air." seemed all too blue, too much of the colour of indigo. But I believed, and wondered. I could no longer... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - Periodicals - 1856 - 512 pages
...strong hold of things, does not grapple with the world about him, but slides from it like ft 1*1 voi* ' And in its liquid texture mortal wound Receives no more than can the fluid air.' The shock of accident, the weight of authority, make no impression on his opinions, which retire like... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - English literature - 1891 - 576 pages
...strong hold of things, does not grapple with the world about him, but slides from it like a river, — " 'And in its liquid texture mortal wound Receives, no more than can the fluid air.'* The shock of accident, the weight of authority, make no impression on his opinions, which retire like... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English essays - 1903 - 548 pages
...strong hold of things, does not grapple with the world about him, but slides from it like a river — ' And in its liquid texture mortal wound Receives no more than can the fluid air.' The shock of accident, the weight of authority make no impression on his opinions, which retire like... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - English literature - 1908 - 294 pages
...strong hold of things, does not grapple with the world about him, but slides from it like a river — " And in its liquid texture mortal wound Receives no more than can the fluid air." The shock of accident, the weight of authority, make no impression on his opinions, which retire like... | |
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... often observable in the case of religious enthusiasts, there is a slenderness of constitutional stamina, which renders the flesh no match for the spirit. His bending, flexible form appears to take no strong hold of things, does not grapple with the... 
