| James Flamank - 1833 - 436 pages
...Those cares that haunt the court and town." Walter Landor, in his Imaginary Conversations, observes, " How many, who have abandoned for public life the studies...which they run, its dreariness, its bitterness, its foams, its storms, its everlasting noise and commotion." A sudden change in the evening of life is... | |
| Sir Henry Taylor - Flanders - 1834 - 322 pages
...pu'i'lshed of late years. " How many," says Sir Philip Sidney, one of the imaginary collocutors, " How many, who have abandoned for public life the studies...rivers, which in the beginning of their course have assvraged our thirst, and have invited us to tranquillity by their bright resemblance of it, and which... | |
| sir Henry Taylor - 1844 - 352 pages
...been published of late years. " How many," says Sir Philip Sidney, one of the Imaginary collocutors," How many, who have abandoned for public life the studies...which they run, its dreariness, its bitterness, its foams, its storms, its everlasting noise and commotion ? I have known several such, and when I have... | |
| Liberalism (Religion) - 1850 - 536 pages
...illustrating most forcibly the beautiful words of Landor, — " How many, who have 1850.] Jovellanos. 163 abandoned for public life the studies of philosophy...which afterwards partake the nature of that vast body whereunto they run, — its dreariness, its bitterness, its foam, its storms, its everlasting noise... | |
| Literature - 1895 - 862 pages
...is the noble mind. How many who have abandoned for public life the studies of poetry and philosophy, may be compared to brooks and rivers, which in the...which afterwards partake the nature of that vast body whereinto they run, its dreariness, its bitterness, its foam, its storms, its everlasting noise and... | |
| Walter Savage Landor - English literature - 1846 - 618 pages
...the generous affections, by such studies and pursuit« as best furnish the mind for their reception. How many, who have abandoned for public life the studies...tranquillity by their bright resemblance of it, and which afterward partake the nature of that vast body whercinto they run, its dreariness, its bitterness,... | |
| Walter Savage Landor - 1846 - 620 pages
...generous affections, by euch studies and purraiw as best Ги i »i- h the mind for their reception. How many, who have abandoned for public life the studies...in the beginning of their course have assuaged our t hiña, and have invited us to tranquillity by their bright resemblance of it, and which afterward... | |
| Sir Henry Taylor - Flanders - 1849 - 352 pages
...says Sir Philip Sidney, one of the imaginary collocutors, " How many, who have abandoned for publio life the studies of philosophy and poetry, may be...us to tranquillity by their bright resemblance of il, and which afterwards partake the nature of that vast body into which they run, its dreariness,... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - Spanish literature - 1850 - 60 pages
...ruin, poverty, exile, and death ; thus illustrating most forcibly the beautiful words of Landor, — " How many, who have abandoned for public life the studies...which afterwards partake the nature of that vast body whereunto they run, — its dreariness, its bitterness, its foam, its storms, its everlasting noise... | |
| Theology - 1850 - 538 pages
...illustrating most forcibly the beautiful words of Landor, — " How many, who have 1850.] Jovellanos. 163 abandoned for public life the studies of philosophy...course have assuaged our thirst, and have invited us to tranqxiillity by their bright resemblance of it, and which afterwards partake the nature of that vast... | |
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