 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pages
...tempers are soured; bonds which seemed indissoluble are daily surrendered by interest, by emulation, by caprice. But no such cause can affect the silent...glory and in obscurity. With the dead there is no rivalry,—in the dead there is no change. EDINBURGH REVIEW. IF Love be holy, if that mystery Of co-united... | |
 | Spencer Hall - 1841 - 48 pages
...communion of mankind. "Time glides by; fortune is inconstant; tempers are soured; bonds which seemed indissoluble, are daily sundered by interest, by emulation,...which we hold with the highest of human intellects. The debt which the man of liberal education owes to them is incalculable; they have guided him to truth... | |
 | 1894 - 856 pages
...been read and re-read, and, as it were, clasped to the heart, that they become in Macanlay's words, " the old friends who are never seen with new faces ; who are the same in wealth and poverty, iii glory and in obscurity." To know even one book in this way is to gain a spiritual revelation.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pages
...weakened or dissolved. Time glides by ; fortune is inconstant; tempers are soured; bonds which seemed his /* Ihe dead there is no rivalry. In the dead there is no change. Plato is never sullen. Cervantes is never... | |
 | 1852 - 780 pages
...weakened or dissolved. Time glides by; fortune is inconstant ; tempers are soured ; bonds which seemed indissoluble are daily sundered by interest, by emulation,...is disturbed by no jealousies or resentments. These ara the old friends who are never seen with new faces, who are the same in wealth and in, poverty,... | |
 | C. Gough - 1853 - 428 pages
...weakened or dissolved. Time glides on; fortune is inconstant ; tempers are soured ; bonds, which seemed indissoluble, are daily sundered by interest, by emulation,...seen with new faces, who are the same in wealth and poverty, in glory and obscurity. With the dead there is no rivalry. In the dead there is no change.... | |
 | 1853 - 848 pages
...weakened or dissolved. Time glides on, fortune is inconstant, tempers are soured, bonds which seemed indissoluble are daily sundered by interest, by emulation,...the silent converse which we hold with the highest human intellects. That placid intercourse is disturbed by no jealousies or resentments. These are the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1854 - 430 pages
...weakened or dissolved. Time glides by; fortune is inconstant; tempers are soured; bonds which seemed indissoluble are daily sundered by interest, by emulation,...These are the old friends who are never seen with hew faces, who are the same in wealth and in poverty, in flory and in obscurity. With the dead there... | |
 | 1855 - 864 pages
...seemed indissoluble are daily sundered, by interest, by emulation, or by caprice. But no such cause cun affect the silent converse which we hold with the...jealousies or resentments. These are the old friends that are never seen with new faces ; who are the same in wealth and in poverty, in glory and in obscurity.... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1856 - 520 pages
...weakened or dissolved. Time glides by ; fortune is inconstant ; tempers are soured ; bonds which seemed indissoluble are daily sundered by interest, by emulation,...old friends who are never seen with new faces, who arc the same in wealth and in poverty, in glory and in obscurity. With the dead there is no rivalry.... | |
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Time glides on ; fortune is inconstant ; tempers are soured; bonds which seemed indissoluble are daily sundered by interest, by emulation, or by caprice. But no such cause can affect the silent converse which we hold with the highest of human intellects. 
