 | William Ordway Partridge - 1894 - 216 pages
...reason itself has nothing to object against this outlay. " It is only because they are not used to the taste of what is excellent that the generality of people take delight in silly and insipid things." Indeed, we must contrive to give to the public, if we wish to elevate it, not what it desires, which... | |
 | National Educational Association (U.S.). Meeting - 1896 - 1114 pages
...man can bear to be entirely deprived of such enjoyments; it is only because they are not used to the taste of what is excellent, that the generality of...provided they be new. For this reason one ought every day at least to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - 1896 - 1114 pages
...man can bear to be entirely deprived of such enjoyments; it is only because they are not used to the taste of what is excellent, that the generality of...provided they be new. For this reason one ought every day at least to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1899 - 502 pages
...the faculty of feeling these things. For no man can bear to be entirely deprived of such enjoyments : it is only because they are not used to taste of what...insipid things, provided they be new. For this reason," he would add, "one ought every day at least to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture,... | |
 | 1899 - 704 pages
...Goethe. It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression upon us. Schopenhauer. It is only because they are not used to taste of what...excellent that the generality of people take delight ш silly and insipid things, provided they be new. Goethe. It is only by labour that thought can be... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1901 - 792 pages
...the faculty of feeling these things. For no man can bear to be entirely deprived of such enjoyments : it is only because they are not used to taste of what...insipid things, provided they be new. For this reason," he would add, " one ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine... | |
 | Brander Matthews - 1906 - 380 pages
...extremity or apathy: dictatorship or communism, with enthusiasm or with indifference. _ _ „ * TS ELIOT. It is only because they are not used to taste of what is excellent, that so many people take delight in silly and insipid things, provided they be new. . . . Honest, clear,... | |
 | Thomas Davis - 1914 - 494 pages
...things by every method in his power. For no man can bear to be entirely deprived of such enjoyments : it is only because they are not used to taste of what...insipid things, provided they be new. For this reason, he would add, ' one ought at least every day to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture,... | |
 | J W Von Goethe - 1917 - 638 pages
...the faculty of feeling these things. For no man can bear to be entirely deprived of such enjoyments: it is only because they are not used to taste of what...insipid things, provided they be new. For this reason," he would add, "one ought every day at least to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture,... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1925 - 388 pages
...the faculty of feeling these things. For no man can bear to be entirely deprived of such enjoyments: it is only because they are not used to taste of what...generality of people take delight in silly and insipid tilings, /provided they be new. vFor this reason," he would add, " one f ought every day at least to... | |
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For no man can bear to be entirely deprived of such enjoyments: it is only because they are not used to taste of what is excellent, that the generality of people take delight in silly and insipid things, provided they be new. For this reason... 
