Society and Solitude: Twelve ChaptersS. Low, Son & Marston, 1870 - 284 pagine |
Altre edizioni - Visualizza tutto
Parole e frasi comuni
admirable animal Aristophanes Aristotle artist audience beauty Ben Jonson better bring character charm chemic affinity child civilisation club conversation courage delight Demosthenes discourse Dr Johnson earth eloquence experience face fact farmer fear feats feel friends genius give gods Goethe Greece Greek hear heart hint hour human intellect Isocrates Jotun labour land learning live look master means ment mind moral nations Nature never Odin Odoacer opinion orator paint Pericles person Phocion phrenology plants Plato pleasure Plutarch poet poetry political Roman scholar sense sentiment Seven Wise Masters Shakspeare society Socrates solitude soul speak speech spirit street Synesius talent things thought tion Titian true truth wants wealth whilst wisdom wise wish wonderful young Younger Edda youth Zeus
Brani popolari
Pagina 249 - Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower ; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind...
Pagina 26 - These are traits and measures and modes; and the true test ' of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops, — no, but the kind of man the country turns out.
Pagina 232 - The boy turned round with screams, And ran with terror wild ; One of the pair of savage beasts Pursued the shrieking child. The hunter raised his gun, — He knew one charge was all, — And through the boy's pursuing foe He sent his only ball. The other on George Nidiver Came on with dreadful pace?
Pagina 162 - The mathematics and the metaphysics, Fall to them as you find your stomach serves you ; No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en : In brief, sir, study what you most affect.
Pagina 206 - Ah Ben ! Say how or .when Shall we, thy guests, Meet at those lyric feasts, Made at the Sun, The Dog, the Triple Tun ; Where we such clusters had, As made us nobly wild, not mad? And yet each verse of thine Out-did the meat, out-did the frolic wine.
Pagina 32 - The man in an ecstasy of fear or anger is an unconscious actor. A large part of our habitual actions are unconsciously done, and most of our necessary words are unconsciously said. . The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is Art.
Pagina 242 - Meanwhile the Cardinal Ippolito, in whom all my best hopes were placed, being dead, I began to understand that the promises of this world are for the most part vain phantoms, and that to confide in one's self, and become something of ,worth and value, is the best and safest course.
Pagina 135 - He is now in great spirits; thinks he shall reach it yet; thinks he shall bottle the wave. It is however getting a little doubtful. Things have an ugly look still. No matter how many centuries of culture have preceded, the new man always finds himself standing on the brink of chaos, always in a crisis. Can anybody remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?
Pagina 162 - Never read any book that is not a year old. 2. Never read any but famed books. 3. Never read any but what you like ; or, in Shakespeare's phrase, " No profit goes where is no pleasure ta'en : •' In brief, sir, study what you most affect.
Pagina 25 - Still roll ; where all the aspects of misery Predominate; whose strong effects are such As he must bear, being powerless to redress; And that unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man...