The cynosure, select passages from the most distinguished writers [ed. by sir N.H. Nicolas].1837 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 22
Page 3
... perhaps from what they themselves anticipated . Gallantry becomes mingled with conversation , and affection and passion come gradually to mix with gallantry . Nobles , as well as shepherd swains , will , in such a trying mo- ment , say ...
... perhaps from what they themselves anticipated . Gallantry becomes mingled with conversation , and affection and passion come gradually to mix with gallantry . Nobles , as well as shepherd swains , will , in such a trying mo- ment , say ...
Page 27
... perhaps start suddenly to a rash action . MISS EDGEWORTH . AMBITION , like a torrent , ne'er looks back ; It is a swelling , and the last affection A high mind can put off . It is a rebel Both to the soul and reason , and enforces All ...
... perhaps start suddenly to a rash action . MISS EDGEWORTH . AMBITION , like a torrent , ne'er looks back ; It is a swelling , and the last affection A high mind can put off . It is a rebel Both to the soul and reason , and enforces All ...
Page 28
... perhaps have affections which occasionally glow in his heart , which excite fondness for amiable qualities , or connect him with seeming attachment to one whom he esteems , or by whom he has been obliged . But after these feelings have ...
... perhaps have affections which occasionally glow in his heart , which excite fondness for amiable qualities , or connect him with seeming attachment to one whom he esteems , or by whom he has been obliged . But after these feelings have ...
Page 36
... various his employments whom the world Calls idle , and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too ! Friends , books , a garden , and perhaps his pen , Delightful industry , enjoy'd at home , And Nature in 36.
... various his employments whom the world Calls idle , and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too ! Friends , books , a garden , and perhaps his pen , Delightful industry , enjoy'd at home , And Nature in 36.
Page 74
... perhaps they rue it . Who made the heart , ' tis He alone Decidedly can try us , He knows each chord - its various tone , Each spring - its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute , We never can adjust it ; What's done we ...
... perhaps they rue it . Who made the heart , ' tis He alone Decidedly can try us , He knows each chord - its various tone , Each spring - its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute , We never can adjust it ; What's done we ...
Other editions - View all
The Cynosure, Select Passages from the Most Distinguished Writers [Ed. by ... Cynosure No preview available - 2016 |
Common terms and phrases
aspiring tower beam beauty BEN JONSON bids blessed blest bosom brave breast breath bright brow BYRON calm CHAUCER COLERIDGE conscience COUNTESS OF BLESSINGTON CYRIL TOURNEUR dark dear death delight doth dreams DRYDEN earth eternal evil fair fame fate fear feel FELTHAM flowers folly fortune Fortune's friendship genius gentle gift give gloom glory grief happiness hast hath heart Heaven honour hope hope and fear hour human JOANNA BAILLIE JOHN MITFORD life's light live man's MARY BRUNTON mighty mind nature ne'er never noble o'er once pain passion peace pleasure pride pure racter reason religion round Sabbath bell shine sighs SIR THOMAS WYATT sleep smile soothe sorrow soul spirit storm stream sweet tears Tell thee thine things thou thought throne tion true truth virtue WALTER SCOTT wealth wings wisdom wise WORDSWORTH youth
Popular passages
Page 87 - Go, lovely rose, Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died.
Page 148 - Of towns and cities, I have owed to them In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart; And passing even into my purer mind...
Page 65 - SWEET day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night; For thou must die.
Page 227 - Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i...
Page 161 - I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth: and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Page 53 - A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food: For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Page 161 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 23 - Thou art the source and centre of all minds, Their only point of rest, eternal Word ! From thee departing, they are lost and rove At random without honour, hope, or peace. From thee is all that soothes the life of man. His high endeavour, and his glad success, His strength to suffer and his will to serve.
Page 74 - Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman ; Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving why they do it : And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it.
Page 177 - Since Trifles make the Sum of human things And half our misery from our foibles springs Since [life's best joys] consist in peace and ease And [few can] save or serve but all may please: Oh! let the [ungentle] spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness is a great offence. Large bounties to bestow we wish in vain; But all may shun the guilt of giving pain.