Our EnglishHarper & brothers, 1888 - 245 páginas |
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Página 85 - 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.
Página 85 - The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, — 1. 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.
Página 150 - ... are addressed as women ; that the rough, spontaneous conversation of men they do not hear, but only a mincing and diluted speech. They are often virtually disfranchised ; and indeed there are advocates for their celibacy. As far as this is true of the studious classes, it is not just and wise.
Página 84 - Spaniards ; so, perhaps, the human mind would be a gainer, if all the secondary writers were lost, — say, in England, all but Shakespeare, Milton, and Bacon, through the profounder study so drawn to those wonderful minds.
Página 33 - In our own English compositions (at least for the last three years of our school education), he showed no mercy to phrase, metaphor, or image, unsupported by a sound sense, or where the same sense might have been conveyed with equal force and dignity in plainer words.
Página 204 - Je veux un sublime si familier, si doux et si simple, que chacun soit d'abord tenté de croire qu'il l'aurait trouvé sans peine , quoique peu d'hommes soient capables de le trouver.
Página 161 - Logos, the thought and the word, distinct, but inseparable from each other. He may, if so be, elaborate his compositions, or he may pour out his improvisations, but in either case he has but one aim, which he keeps steadily before him, and is conscientious and single-minded in fulfilling.
Página 105 - Devereux Forester's being ruined by his Vanity is extremely good ; but I wish you would not let him plunge into a ' vortex of Dissipation.' I do not object to the Thing, but I cannot bear the expression ; — it is such thorough novel slang — and so old, that I dare say Adam met with it in the first novel he opened.
Página 159 - The proprieties and delicacies of the English are known to few; it is impossible even for a good wit to understand and practise them without the help of a liberal education, long reading, and digesting of those few good authors we...
Página 125 - It is frequently the same case in law, physic, and even many of the meaner arts. And upon this account it is, that among hard words, I number likewise those which are peculiar to divinity as it is a science, because I have observed several clergymen, otherwise little fond of obscure terms, yet in their sermons very liberal of those which they find in ecclesiastical writers, as if it were our duty to understand them : which I am sure it is not.