The Infirmities of Genius, Հատոր 1Saunderss and Otley, 1833 |
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... early years of genius are not so often remarkable for precocity , as is com- monly supposed , and where it is otherwise , it would seem that the earlier the mental faculties are developed , the sooner the bodily powers begin to fail ...
... early years of genius are not so often remarkable for precocity , as is com- monly supposed , and where it is otherwise , it would seem that the earlier the mental faculties are developed , the sooner the bodily powers begin to fail ...
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... early death . Keats wrote several pieces before he was fifteen , and only reached his twenty - fifth year . The ardour of Dante's temperament , we are told , was manifested in his childhood . The lady he cele- brated in his poems under ...
... early death . Keats wrote several pieces before he was fifteen , and only reached his twenty - fifth year . The ardour of Dante's temperament , we are told , was manifested in his childhood . The lady he cele- brated in his poems under ...
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... early notice , of encouraging its growth in the hot - bed of pa- rental approbation , and of endeavouring to give the dawning intellect the precocious maturity of that fruit which ripens and rots almost simulta- neously . Tissot has ...
... early notice , of encouraging its growth in the hot - bed of pa- rental approbation , and of endeavouring to give the dawning intellect the precocious maturity of that fruit which ripens and rots almost simulta- neously . Tissot has ...
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... early developed , and mental appli- cation is permitted proportioned to this develope- ment , the body receives no part of it , because the nerves cease to contribute to its energies ; the vic- tim becomes exhausted , and eventually ...
... early developed , and mental appli- cation is permitted proportioned to this develope- ment , the body receives no part of it , because the nerves cease to contribute to its energies ; the vic- tim becomes exhausted , and eventually ...
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Richard Robert Madden. Scott's originality was early manifested as a story - teller , and not as a scholar ; the twenty - fifth seat at the high school in Edinburg was no uncom- mon place for him . Yet was the ... early manifested as a ...
Richard Robert Madden. Scott's originality was early manifested as a story - teller , and not as a scholar ; the twenty - fifth seat at the high school in Edinburg was no uncom- mon place for him . Yet was the ... early manifested as a ...
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The Infirmities of Genius: Illustrated by Referring the Anomalies ..., Հատոր 1 Richard Robert Madden Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1833 |
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Էջ 29 - How small , of all that human hearts endure , That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Էջ 128 - But is it not some reproach upon the economy of Providence that such a one, who is a mean dirty fellow, should have amassed wealth enough to buy half a nation?" Not in the least. He made himself a mean dirty fellow for that very end. He has paid his health, his conscience, his liberty for it; and will you envy him his bargain? Will you hang your head and blush in his presence because he outshines you in equipage and show?
Էջ 168 - I ventured to tell him, that I had been, for moments in my life, not afraid of death; therefore I could suppose another man in that state of mind for a considerable space of time. He said, 'he never had a moment in which death was not terrible to him.
Էջ 179 - Every thing about his character and manners was forcible and violent ; there never was any moderation. Many a day did he fast, many a year did he refrain from wine : but when he did eat, it was voraciously ; when he did drink wine, it was copiously. He could practise abstinence, but not temperance.
Էջ 94 - In time some particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all other intellectual gratifications are rejected, the mind, in weariness or leisure, recurs constantly to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth.
Էջ 178 - I never k'new any man who relished good eating more than he did. When at table, he was totally absorbed in the business of the. moment ; his looks seemed rivetted to his plate ; nor. would he, unless when in very high company, say one word, or even pay the least attention to what was said by others, till he had satisfied his appetite, which was so fierce, and indulged with such intenseness, that while in the act of eating, the veins • of his forehead swelled, and generally a strong perspiration...
Էջ 107 - Of the great number to whom it has been my painful professional duty to have administered in the last hours of their lives, I have sometimes felt surprised that so few have appeared reluctant to go to " the undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveller returns.
Էջ 188 - Whether what Temple says be true, that physicians have had more learning than the other faculties, I will not stay to...
Էջ 173 - ... his reason to disentangle him. This was his anxious care, to go out or in at a door' or passage, by a certain number of steps from a certain point, or at least so as that either his right or his left foot, (I am not certain which,) should constantly make the first actual movement when he came close to the door or passage. Thus I conjecture : for I have, upon innumerable occasions, observed him suddenly stop, and then seem to count his steps with...
Էջ 37 - The first is their negligence: "Other men look to their tools, a painter will wash his pencils, a smith will look to his hammer, anvil, forge: an husbandman will mend his ploughirons, and grind his hatchet if it be dull; a falconer or huntsman will have an especial care of his hawks, hounds, horses, dogs, &c.