Pearls of ThoughtHoughton, Mifflin, 1882 - 284 sider |
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Side 1
... poet has truly declared that con- stancy is no virtue , but a fact . - Tuckerman . Frozen by distance . Wordsworth . Short absence quickens love , long absence kills it . - Mirabeau . - We often wish most for our friends when they are ...
... poet has truly declared that con- stancy is no virtue , but a fact . - Tuckerman . Frozen by distance . Wordsworth . Short absence quickens love , long absence kills it . - Mirabeau . - We often wish most for our friends when they are ...
Side 17
... poetry nowhere unless you bring some with you . - Joubert . - Architecture .. Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man , for whatsoever uses , that the sight of them may con- tribute to his mental ...
... poetry nowhere unless you bring some with you . - Joubert . - Architecture .. Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man , for whatsoever uses , that the sight of them may con- tribute to his mental ...
Side 23
... poet , but for the greatness of his character which obtrudes in his writings . Goethe . - Choose an author as you choose a friend . - Ros- common . Herder and Schiller both in their youth intended to study as surgeons , but Destiny said ...
... poet , but for the greatness of his character which obtrudes in his writings . Goethe . - Choose an author as you choose a friend . - Ros- common . Herder and Schiller both in their youth intended to study as surgeons , but Destiny said ...
Side 24
... poet observes that the Cow of Isis is to some the divine symbol of knowledge , to others but the milch cow , only regarded for the pounds of butter she will yield . O tendency of our age , to look on Isis as the milch cow ! - Bulwer ...
... poet observes that the Cow of Isis is to some the divine symbol of knowledge , to others but the milch cow , only regarded for the pounds of butter she will yield . O tendency of our age , to look on Isis as the milch cow ! - Bulwer ...
Side 26
... poetic element that lies hidden in every existing thing . Mazzini . Beauty is God's handwriting , a wayside sacra- ment . - Milton . Beauty deceives women in making them establish on an ephemeral power the pretensions of a whole life ...
... poetic element that lies hidden in every existing thing . Mazzini . Beauty is God's handwriting , a wayside sacra- ment . - Milton . Beauty deceives women in making them establish on an ephemeral power the pretensions of a whole life ...
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action Addison Alfred de Musset Arsène Houssaye Bacon beautiful Beecher better Bulwer-Lytton Burke Byron Carlyle Chapin Charles Buxton Coleridge Colton conscience death divine Douglas Jerrold Dryden earth Emerson everything evil eyes fear feel Feltham flowers fools fortune friends genius George Eliot give glory Goethe gold Goldsmith hand happiness hath heart heaven Heinrich Heine honor hope human Jeremy Collier Jeremy Taylor Johnson Joubert kind knowledge labor light live look Macaulay Madame Swetchine man's mankind Mazzini Milton mind Molière Montaigne moral nature ness never noble pain passions Petit Senn pleasure poet poetry Pope reason religion riches Richter ruin Ruskin Samuel Smiles sense Shake Shakespeare Smiles sorrow soul speare sweet Sydney Smith tears temper things Thoreau thou thought tion true truth vice Victor Hugo virtue Voltaire wisdom wise woman words