 But you will go on working ?' exclaims Editha, with a surprised look ; ' your ambition is not dead ?' His only answer for the moment is a sigh. ' Progress is a grand word,' he says at last. ' but how few they are who have the elements of progress in their...  Belgravia - Page 1541875Full view - About this book
 | Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Artists and theater - 1875 - 290 pages
...together, and others with box planted densely and cat into the shape of a coffin. This last design is evidently esteemed the most recherche thing in...his art for its own sake, without consideration of fee or reward ? For my own part, when people say they are not ambitious, I always fancy they mean that... | |
 | Mary Elizabeth Braddon - English fiction - 1875 - 182 pages
...Editha of his youth, touching lightly upon his struggles, but owning without reserve that he has labored for his bread. "And now, after pulling against the...genius. Bulwer Lytton, the most varied genius since Shakspeare, is the only man I can think of at this moment whose power was always growing." ' ' Was... | |
 | Thomas Bland Strange - Canada - 1893 - 594 pages
...insular Englishmen. If it makes a difference in the temporarily-transplanted individual (who is said to go up like a rocket and come down like a stick) — for the suddenly-increased energy wears men out — reminding one of Dr. Ox's experiment with ozone... | |
 | 1893 - 882 pages
...professional agitator's vogue. Better to burn steadily like a 'arthing candle, or Price's night-lights, ihan to go up like a rocket and come down like a stick. Yet I confess there is nothing attractive in the glimmer of a farthing candle, and the splendour of... | |
 | Edwin Du Bois Shurter - English language - 1909 - 338 pages
...encounters so many guards against the mere excitement of passion that it behooves him, unless he is to " go up like a rocket and come down like a stick," to look well to basing his emotional appeals on sound reasoning. Otherwise he can have no lasting influence.... | |
 | Roger Sprague - Hawaii - 1917 - 398 pages
...who is totally self-centered is apt to defeat himself. No matter what line Atten took up, he was apt to "go up like a rocket and come down like a stick." On leaving college, he had entered the teaching profession. Schools outbid each other to attract the... | |
 | Edmundo Gutiérrez - Tacna-Arica question - 1924 - 354 pages
...country in a position to guarantee fair and square possession of the much coveted territories . But to go up like a rocket and come down like a stick is indeed a sad experience. The answering communication handed in by Dr. Alberto Salomon, Peruvian... | |
 | Cooking, American - 1920 - 876 pages
...rewards for his occasional brilliant exploits, but unless he is well-trained and well-balanced, he is apt to go up like a rocket and come down like a stick. The genius is too apt to work only by fits and starts, or when inspired, or in the mood, and there... | |
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