The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things : in Two Volumes, Volume 2Henry Colburn, New Burlington-Street, 1826 - 912 pages |
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... vanity- Aspiring to be Gods , if angels fell , Aspiring to be angels , men rebel . If a celebrated artist in our own day had staid to do justice to his principal figure in a gene- rally admired painting , before he had exhibited it , it ...
... vanity- Aspiring to be Gods , if angels fell , Aspiring to be angels , men rebel . If a celebrated artist in our own day had staid to do justice to his principal figure in a gene- rally admired painting , before he had exhibited it , it ...
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... , and all the contempt they do not show to mean- ness and duplicity . Our indolence , and perhaps our envy take part with our cowardice and vanity in TO SUCCESS IN LIFE . 21 On the Qualifications necessary to Success Life 1.
... , and all the contempt they do not show to mean- ness and duplicity . Our indolence , and perhaps our envy take part with our cowardice and vanity in TO SUCCESS IN LIFE . 21 On the Qualifications necessary to Success Life 1.
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... vanity in all this . The obtrusive claims of empty ostentation , played off like the ring on the finger , fluttering and sparkling in our sight , relieve us from the irksome task of seeking out obscure merit : the scroll of virtues ...
... vanity in all this . The obtrusive claims of empty ostentation , played off like the ring on the finger , fluttering and sparkling in our sight , relieve us from the irksome task of seeking out obscure merit : the scroll of virtues ...
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... vanity throws itself unblushingly on the unsus- pecting candour of his hearers , and ravishes mute admiration . You would almost guess of this no- bleman beforehand that he was a Marquis -- some- thing higher than an earl , and less ...
... vanity throws itself unblushingly on the unsus- pecting candour of his hearers , and ravishes mute admiration . You would almost guess of this no- bleman beforehand that he was a Marquis -- some- thing higher than an earl , and less ...
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... vanity , profess myself * . Now these are the very persons who are likely to attach them- selves to the character of Emilius , and of whom it is sure to be the bane . This dull , phlegma- tic , retiring humour is not in a fair way to be ...
... vanity , profess myself * . Now these are the very persons who are likely to attach them- selves to the character of Emilius , and of whom it is sure to be the bane . This dull , phlegma- tic , retiring humour is not in a fair way to be ...
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Page 43 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Page 341 - Merciful heaven! What, man! ne'er pull your hat upon your brows; Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.
Page 315 - Yet nature is made better by no mean But nature makes that mean; so over that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race. This is an art Which does mend nature — change it rather; but The art itself is nature.
Page 270 - O'er a' the ills o' life victorious! But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever; Or like the borealis race That flit ere you can point their place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. Nae man can tether time or tide; The hour approaches Tam maun ride; That hour, o...
Page 293 - Piety displays Her mouldering roll, the piercing eye explores New manners, and the pomp of elder days, Whence culls the pensive bard his pictured stores. Nor rough nor barren are the winding ways Of hoar Antiquity, but strewn with flowers.
Page 157 - Time travels in divers paces with divers persons : I'll tell you who time ambles withal, who time trots withal, who time gallops withal, and who he stands still withal.
Page 174 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Page 95 - Amid the groves, under the shadowy hills, The generations are prepared ; the pangs, . The internal pangs, are ready ; the dread strife Of poor humanity's afflicted will Struggling in vain with ruthless destiny.
Page 270 - DUKE'S PALACE. [Enter DUKE, CURIO, LORDS; MUSICIANS attending.] DUKE. If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die.— That strain again;— it had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.— Enough; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
Page 9 - Though equal to all things, for all things unfit, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit : For a patriot, too cool ; for a drudge, disobedient ; And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemploy'd, or in place, Sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor.