Caxtoniana: a Series of Essays on Life, Literature, and MannersHarper & brothers, 1864 - 441 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 334 - He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
الصفحة 339 - But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off; and, for the book of knowledge fair, Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And "Wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
الصفحة 427 - READING without purpose is sauntering, not exercise. More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye. A cottage flower gives honey to the bee, a king's garden none to the butterfly.
الصفحة 185 - ... the morrow. We shall once more value ends above means and prefer the good to the useful. We shall honour those who can teach us how to pluck the hour and the day virtuously and well, the delightful people who are capable of taking direct enjoyment in things, the lilies of the field who toil not, neither do they spin.
الصفحة 333 - To be read by bare inscriptions like many in Gruter, to hope for eternity by enigmatical epithets, or first letters of our names, to be studied by antiquaries, who we were, and have new names given us like many of the mummies, are cold consolations unto the students of perpetuity, even by everlasting languages.
الصفحة 437 - Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to nought.
الصفحة 380 - I add one expedient more, stronger than all the rest; and, for mine own confident opinion, void of any prejudice or danger of diminution of your greatness ; and that is, the bringing in of some martial man to be of the Council ; dealing directly with her Majesty in it, as for her service and your better assistance ; choosing nevertheless some person that may be known not to come in against you by any former division. I judge the fittest to be my Lord Mouutjoy, or my Lord Willoughby.
الصفحة 72 - I may so ill manage my money, that, with £5,000 a year, I purchase the worst evils of poverty, — terror and shame ; I may so well manage my money, that, with £ 100 a year, I purchase the best blessings of wealth, — safety and respect.
الصفحة 110 - ... subtle delicacy of tact and a plain soundness of judgment which are rarely combined to an equal degree in man. A woman, if she be really your friend, will have a sensitive regard for your character, honor, repute. She will seldom counsel you to do a shabby thing, for a womanfriend always desires to be proud of you.
الصفحة 340 - I commend my soul into the hands of God my Creator, hoping, and assuredly believing, through the only merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour, to be made partaker of life everlasting ; and my body to the earth whereof it is made.