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Page 56
... genius . They fear lest they should be loved for a quality , and not for themselves . Bulwer . Who love too much , hate in the like extreme . Homer . A lover is a man who , in his anxiety to possess another , has lost possession of ...
... genius . They fear lest they should be loved for a quality , and not for themselves . Bulwer . Who love too much , hate in the like extreme . Homer . A lover is a man who , in his anxiety to possess another , has lost possession of ...
Page 113
... Rochefoucauld . Features alone do not run in the blood ; vices and virtues , genius and folly , are transmitted through the same sure but unseen channel . Hazlitt . But human bodies are sic fools , For a ' 10 * H MAN . 113.
... Rochefoucauld . Features alone do not run in the blood ; vices and virtues , genius and folly , are transmitted through the same sure but unseen channel . Hazlitt . But human bodies are sic fools , For a ' 10 * H MAN . 113.
Page 118
The light of other minds is as necessary to the play and development of genius as the light of other bodies is to the play and radiation of the diamond . A diamond , incarcerated in a subterraneous prison , rough and unpol- ished ...
The light of other minds is as necessary to the play and development of genius as the light of other bodies is to the play and radiation of the diamond . A diamond , incarcerated in a subterraneous prison , rough and unpol- ished ...
Page 120
... genius will delicately make all who come in contact with him feel the exquisite satisfaction of knowing that they have appeared to advantage . Custom forms us all . La Bruyère . Our thoughts , our morals , our most fixed belief , Are ...
... genius will delicately make all who come in contact with him feel the exquisite satisfaction of knowing that they have appeared to advantage . Custom forms us all . La Bruyère . Our thoughts , our morals , our most fixed belief , Are ...
Page 143
... never one with judgment . There are some people fated to be fools , who not only commit follies from choice , but are compelled to commit them by fortune . La Rochefoucauld . One science only will one genius fit , So vast MAN . 143.
... never one with judgment . There are some people fated to be fools , who not only commit follies from choice , but are compelled to commit them by fortune . La Rochefoucauld . One science only will one genius fit , So vast MAN . 143.
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Addison affection Bailey Bayard Taylor beauty blush breast breath bright Bulwer Burns Byron Campbell charms cheek Chesterfield Cicero Coleridge Colton Cowper dark death doth Dryden earth enemy eyes face fate faults fear feel Ferrold flower folly fool fortune friendship genius give glow Goethe Goldsmith grace Greville grief grow happiness hath Hazlitt heart heaven hope human husband Joanna Baillie Johnson kiss La Bruyère La Rochefoucauld Lavater life's light lips live Longfellow look love's lover Madame de Staël maiden man's marriage married Milton mind Miss Landon Moore Nature ne'er never o'er once Ovid pain passion pleasure Pope pride proud Proverb Rochefoucauld scorn Scott sense Shakspeare sighs sleep smile soft sorrow soul Spanish Proverb speak sweet Sydney Smith tears tender thee There's things thou hast thought tongue trust truth vice virtue warm wife wise woman women wooed words Wordsworth Young youth