The Table Talker: Or, Brief Essays on Society and Literature, Volume 2W. Pickering, 1840 - English essays |
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abstinence acquaintances admiration affection Bampton Lectures beauty better called cerned character cheerful Christian Church circumstances civility classic compound corruption creatures days of worth delightful Demosthenes discourse dispute Dryden duty elegant evil fashion feeling friends Furness Fells Gaspar Tagliacozzi genius gentle gentleman give Gray's Inn Greece habits hand heart honest honour human irreligion J. H. Newman judgment kind knowledge listeners live London look Lord LORD BYRON manner Mathews matter means ment mind modern modesty moral nature ness never noble observation perhaps persons philosophy poet poetry poor practical present pride principles racter rational reason religion religious respect rience says seems Sir George Murray society sort soul spirit sure talk taste temperance thing thirty-nine articles thought tion touch true truth virtue vulgar whole wisdom words worthy write Zippa
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Page 201 - Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
Page 256 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.
Page 106 - Set in a note-book, learn'd and conn'd by rote, To cast into my teeth. O, I could weep My spirit from mine eyes ! There is my dagger, And here my naked breast ; within, a heart Dearer than Plutus...
Page 211 - Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high, He sought the storms ; but for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide...
Page 44 - While sea-born gales their gelid wings expand To winnow fragrance round the smiling land. But small the bliss that sense alone bestows, And sensual bliss is all the nation knows. In florid beauty groves and fields appear, Man seems the only growth that dwindles here. Contrasted faults through all his manners reign ; Though poor, luxurious ; though submissive, vain ; Though grave, yet trifling; zealous, yet untrue; And even in penance planning sins anew.
Page 75 - Alas ! — how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love ! Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more closely tied ; That stood the storm, when waves were rough, Yet in a sunny hour fall off. Like ships that have gone down at sea, When heaven was all tranquillity...
Page 212 - In the first rank of these did Zimri stand ; A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome...
Page 17 - But where to find that happiest spot below, Who can direct, when all pretend to know? The shudd'ring tenant of the frigid zone Boldly proclaims that happiest spot his own...
Page 7 - To build, to plant, whatever you intend. To rear the column, or the arch to bend, To swell the terrace, or to sink the grot; In all, let nature never be forgot.