In a Club Corner: The Monologue of a Man who Might Have Been SociablePrinted at the Riverside Press, 1890 - 334 páginas |
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... value which it derived from a rich fund of anecdote , delivered in the smallest number possible of the most happy and most ap- propriate words possible , it would indeed - be difficult to convey an adequate idea . His 16 In a Club Corner.
... value which it derived from a rich fund of anecdote , delivered in the smallest number possible of the most happy and most ap- propriate words possible , it would indeed - be difficult to convey an adequate idea . His 16 In a Club Corner.
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... idea . His own powers of picturesque , and won- derfully condensed expression , would be Condensed hardly sufficient to present a portrait of its expression various and striking beauties . Simple and natural , yet abounding in the most ...
... idea . His own powers of picturesque , and won- derfully condensed expression , would be Condensed hardly sufficient to present a portrait of its expression various and striking beauties . Simple and natural , yet abounding in the most ...
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... ideas , " says Landor , " which necessarily must occur to minds of the like magnitude and materials , aspect and temperature . When two nations are in the same phasis , they will excite the same humors , and produce the same ...
... ideas , " says Landor , " which necessarily must occur to minds of the like magnitude and materials , aspect and temperature . When two nations are in the same phasis , they will excite the same humors , and produce the same ...
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... a book which has not a single idea in it from be- ginning to end except in the quotations . The only question that is made by me , is a quotation . The great dramatic writers . the quotation from a good In a Club Corner 41.
... a book which has not a single idea in it from be- ginning to end except in the quotations . The only question that is made by me , is a quotation . The great dramatic writers . the quotation from a good In a Club Corner 41.
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... idea com- mon both to him and Shakespeare . Milton , Milton a too , is a boundless borrower . Each one borrower . improves a little or draws new truths from the works of his predecessors . Nor are the prose writers of fiction any more ...
... idea com- mon both to him and Shakespeare . Milton , Milton a too , is a boundless borrower . Each one borrower . improves a little or draws new truths from the works of his predecessors . Nor are the prose writers of fiction any more ...
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Página 54 - I have, all my life long, been lying till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.
Página 259 - ... swarm all around him, while contemplating the monsters in a drop of vinegar. Which would have advanced the most at the end of a month, — the boy who had made his own jackknife from the ore which he had dug and smelted, reading as much as would be necessary for this, — or the boy who had attended the lectures on metallurgy at the Institute in the mean while, and had received a Rogers...
Página 245 - Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity. Poverty takes away so many means of doing good, and produces so much inability to resist evil, both natural and moral, that it is by all virtuous means to be avoided.
Página 71 - I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.
Página 140 - All that he had ever heard, all that he had ever read, when compared with it, dwindled into nothing, and vanished like vapour before the sun;
Página 35 - I was present not long since at a party of North Britons, where a son of Burns was expected, and happened to drop a silly expression (in my South British way) that I wished it were the father instead of the son, when four of them started up at once to inform me that "that was impossible, because he was dead.
Página 306 - There he stood working at his anvil, his face all radiant with exercise and gladness, his sleeves turned up, his wig pushed off his shining forehead — the easiest, freest, happiest man in all the world.
Página 41 - What is not good for virtue, is good for knowledge. Hence his contemporaries tax him with plagiarism. But the inventor only knows how to borrow; and society is glad to forget the innumerable...
Página 237 - Small debts are like small shot ; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound : great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.
Página 200 - When he was told of the disaffection of one of his subjects, he merely asked, " How many thousand men can he bring into the field ? " He once saw a crowd staring at something on a wall. He rode up, and found that the object of curiosity was a scurrilous placard against himself. The placard had been posted up so high that it was not easy to read it. Frederic ordered his attendants to take it down and put it lower. " My people and I," he said, " have come to an agreement which satisfies us both.