The Book of AphorismsW.R. M'Phun, 1834 - 224 стор. |
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Сторінка 44 - Here Reynolds is laid, and, to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind ; His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand ; His manners were gentle, complying, and bland ; Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart : To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judged without skill, he was still hard of hearing : When they talk'd of their Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet,* and only took snuff.
Сторінка 211 - Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low, — an excellent thing in woman.
Сторінка 95 - Health to great Jeffrey! Heaven preserve his life, To flourish on the fertile shores of Fife, And guard it sacred in his future wars, Since authors sometimes seek the field of Mars ! Can none remember that eventful day, That ever glorious, almost fatal fray, When Little's leadless pistol met his eye, And Bow Street myrmidons stood laughing by...
Сторінка 207 - Network: anything reticulated or decussated, at equal distances with interstices between the intersections.
Сторінка 38 - Great power of mind, and great elegance of manners, are nearly incompatible. It is difficult for a man of genius to be an adept in the graces of the drawing-room. Powerful minds have an originality and intractability about them, which render it extremely difficult for them to fall into that ease and conventional politeness, which are considered to constitute the finished gentleman. The politeness of a man of genius is more that of nature than of art.
Сторінка 24 - We would entreat him to believe that a certain portion of liveliness, somewhat of fancy, is necessary to constitute a poem ; and that a poem, in the present day, to be read, must contain at least one thought, either in a little degree different from the ideas of former writers, or differently expressed.
Сторінка 150 - If you wish to make yourself agreeable to any one, talk as much as you please about his or her affairs, and as little as possible about your own.
Сторінка 109 - It depends upon something heyond mere organization, for I have seen the eyes of two persons which in their structure and colour were, apparently, quite the same, and yet the ocular expression of each individual was perfectly different. Some owe the expression of their countenance chiefly to the eyes, others to the mouth, nor is it, upon the whole, easy to say which feature is the most expressive. The intellect, I believe, is more especially communicated by the eyes, and the feelings by the mouth....
Сторінка 32 - The common people of Italy describe the peacock as having the plumage of an angel, the voice of a devil, and the guts of a thief. They were first brought from the East Indies, where they are still found in vast flocks, in a wild state ; the head of the bird most familiar to us, is adorned with a tuft of twenty-four feathers, whose shafts are entirely bare, tipped with eyes of green and gold ; the head, throat, neck, and breast...
Сторінка 171 - ... the thickness of the back and shoulders being such, that if the outside be properly done, the inside must needs be little better than parboiled.