 ... indissoluble are daily sundered by interest, by emulation, or by caprice. But no such cause can affect the silent converse which we hold with the highest of human intellects. That placid intercourse is disturbed by no jealousies or resentments.  The Bookmart - Página 361883Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 páginas
...highest of human intellects. That placid intercourse is disturbed by no jealousies or resentments. These are the old friends who are never seen with new faces,...glory and in obscurity. With the dead there is no rivalry,—in the dead there is no change. EDINBURGH REVIEW. IF Love be holy, if that mystery Of co-united... | |
 | 1894 - 856 páginas
...been read and re-read, and, as it were, clasped to the heart, that they become in Macanlay's words, " the old friends who are never seen with new faces ; who are the same in wealth and poverty, iii glory and in obscurity." To know even one book in this way is to gain a spiritual revelation.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 páginas
...highest of human intellects. That placid intercourse is disturbed by no jealousies or resentments. These Ihe dead there is no rivalry. In the dead there is no change. Plato is never sullen. Cervantes is never... | |
 | Sir Arthur Helps - 1849 - 254 páginas
...remember this important distinction — that one can put the books down at any time. As Macaulay says, " Plato is never sullen. Cervantes " is never petulant....comes " unseasonably. Dante never stays too long." MILVERTON. Besides, one can manage to agree so well, intellectually, with a book ; and intellectual... | |
 | Sir Arthur Helps - 1849 - 260 páginas
...remember this important distinction — that one can put the books down at any time. As Macaulay says, " Plato is never sullen. Cervantes " is never petulant....comes " unseasonably. Dante never stays too long." MILVERTON. Besides, one can manage to agree so well, intellectually, with a book ; and intellectual... | |
 | 1852 - 780 páginas
...of human intellects. That placid intercourse is disturbed by no jealousies or resentments. These ara vice in which he was employed after his return to...reduction of the stronghold of Gheriah. This fortress, bu j dead there is no rivalry. In the dead there is no change. Plato is never sullen. Ceivantes is never... | |
 | 1853 - 848 páginas
...highest human intellects. That placid intercourse is disturbed by no jealousies or resentments. These are the old friends who are never seen with new faces,...wealth and in poverty, in glory and in obscurity. . . . Nothing, then, can be more natural, than that a person endowed with sensibility and imagination... | |
 | C. Gough - 1853 - 428 páginas
...highest of human intellects. That placid intercourse is disturbed by no jealousies or resentments. These are the old friends who are never seen with new faces, who are the same in wealth and poverty, in glory and obscurity. With the dead there is no rivalry. In the dead there is no change.... | |
 | 1855 - 864 páginas
...That placid intercourse is disturbed by no jealousies or resentments. These are the old friends that are never seen with new faces ; who are the same in...there is no rivalry. In the dead there is no change. 1'lato is never sullen. Cervantes is never petulant. Demosthenes never comes unseasonably. Dante never... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1855 - 590 páginas
...feeling of educated men towards great old books, those old friends who are never seen with new faces, but are the same in wealth and in poverty, in glory and...the dead there is no change. Plato is never sullen. Corvantes is never petulant. Demosthenes never comes unseasonably. Dante never stays too long. No difference... | |
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