Best Thoughts of Best Thinkers: Amplified, Classified, Exemplified and Arranged as a Key to Unlock the Literature of All AgesBest thoughts publishing Company, 1904 - 643页 |
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... Ideas are the same in art or literature , but in one case they are painted in colors , while in the other case they are portrayed in words . The best thoughts of the best thinkers , as recorded in ancient and modern literature , are ...
... Ideas are the same in art or literature , but in one case they are painted in colors , while in the other case they are portrayed in words . The best thoughts of the best thinkers , as recorded in ancient and modern literature , are ...
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... idea struck a philosopher ; the miner struck pay dirt ; the show struck the town ; my erstwhile acquaintance struck me for a dollar ; the actress is stage struck , and the dandy is struck on himself . Besides the expressions of language ...
... idea struck a philosopher ; the miner struck pay dirt ; the show struck the town ; my erstwhile acquaintance struck me for a dollar ; the actress is stage struck , and the dandy is struck on himself . Besides the expressions of language ...
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... ideas and we have a subject and a predicate -the simplest express- ion possible and the simplest form of stating it . Without go- ing into tedious details , let me add that all human knowledge , however complicated , however profound ...
... ideas and we have a subject and a predicate -the simplest express- ion possible and the simplest form of stating it . Without go- ing into tedious details , let me add that all human knowledge , however complicated , however profound ...
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... idea in such a way as to exalt or debase that idea . We may make our subject appear splendid , or graceful , or clumsy , or refined , or coarse , or humble , or proud , or digni- fied , or grand , according as we compare that subject ...
... idea in such a way as to exalt or debase that idea . We may make our subject appear splendid , or graceful , or clumsy , or refined , or coarse , or humble , or proud , or digni- fied , or grand , according as we compare that subject ...
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... ideas expressed in metaphor would be — “ The white light of truth , in traversing the many - sided transparent soul of the poet , is refracted into iris - hued poetry . " — ( Herbert Spencer . ) Of course , we must be careful in using ...
... ideas expressed in metaphor would be — “ The white light of truth , in traversing the many - sided transparent soul of the poet , is refracted into iris - hued poetry . " — ( Herbert Spencer . ) Of course , we must be careful in using ...
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第199页 - I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i' the imminent deadly breach, Of being taken by the insolent foe And sold to slavery, of my redemption thence And portance in my travels...
第199页 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
第199页 - To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life...
第68页 - Infernal World! and thou, profoundest Hell, Receive thy new possessor - one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
第199页 - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.
第138页 - That to the observer doth thy history Fully unfold. Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
第199页 - And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of link-ed sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running ; Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of Harmony : That Orpheus...
第199页 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature...
第193页 - From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire ; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world...
第215页 - And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.