The Infirmities of Genius, Հատոր 1Saunderss and Otley, 1833 |
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... less in their element ; the effort to support the dignity of genius in a common - place conversation , costs them , perhaps , more fatigue than the composition of half a vo- lume would occasion in their study . Or if any congenial topic ...
... less in their element ; the effort to support the dignity of genius in a common - place conversation , costs them , perhaps , more fatigue than the composition of half a vo- lume would occasion in their study . Or if any congenial topic ...
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... less divested of the attributes of his greatness when he is taken from his study , or followed in crowded circles . We naturally desire to know every thing that concerns the character or the general conduct of those whose produc . tions ...
... less divested of the attributes of his greatness when he is taken from his study , or followed in crowded circles . We naturally desire to know every thing that concerns the character or the general conduct of those whose produc . tions ...
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... less . " A vigorous mind , " says Burke , " is as necessarily accompanied by violent passions , as a great fire with great heat . " And to such a mind , whatever be its frailties , the just and the charitable will be inclined to deem it ...
... less . " A vigorous mind , " says Burke , " is as necessarily accompanied by violent passions , as a great fire with great heat . " And to such a mind , whatever be its frailties , the just and the charitable will be inclined to deem it ...
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... less injurious to others . It would be idle to expatiate on the good which literary pursuits are calculated to effect in every circle . The country gentleman need not be reminded that literature , of all sports , even when pursued as a ...
... less injurious to others . It would be idle to expatiate on the good which literary pursuits are calculated to effect in every circle . The country gentleman need not be reminded that literature , of all sports , even when pursued as a ...
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... less laborious study , or calls for less profound reflection than poetry ? Or is it that the latter is rather a passion than a pursuit , which is not confined to the exertion of a partic- ular faculty , but which demands the exercise of ...
... less laborious study , or calls for less profound reflection than poetry ? Or is it that the latter is rather a passion than a pursuit , which is not confined to the exertion of a partic- ular faculty , but which demands the exercise of ...
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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.