 | Henry Attwell - Quotations - 1870 - 314 pages
...Genuine and innocent wit like this is surely the flavour of the mind. Man could not direct his way by plain reason, and support his life by tasteless...pilgrimage, and to charm his pained steps over the burning marl. Sydney Smith. LAUGHTER. How much lies in laughter : the cipher-key, wherewith we decipher the... | |
 | Henry Attwell - Quotations - 1870 - 314 pages
...Man could not direct his way by plain reason, and support his life by tasteless food; but God lias given us wit, and flavour, and brightness, and laughter...pilgrimage, and to charm his pained steps over the burning marl. Sydney Smith. LAUGHTER. How much lies in laughter : the cipher-key, wherewith we decipher the... | |
 | College student newspapers and periodicals - 1895 - 344 pages
...ways by plain reason and support his life by tasteless food ; but God l.as given us wit and flavor and brightness and laughter and perfumes to enliven...pilgrimage, and to charm his pained steps over the burning marl .' ' Perhaps the greatest difference to be noted between wit and humor is that the former exists... | |
 | William Smith, Benjamin Nicholas Martin - English literature - 1870 - 482 pages
...ways by plain reason, and support his life by tasteless food ; but God has given us wit, and flavor, and laughter, and perfumes, to enliven the days of..." charm his pained steps over the burning marie." 3320 FROM " THE LETTERS OF PETER PLYMLEY." I confess, it mortifies me to the very quick to contrast... | |
 | English prose literature - 1872 - 556 pages
...ways by plain reason, and support his life by tasteless food ; but God has given us wit, and flavour, and laughter, and perfumes, to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to "charm his painted steps over the burning marie." [CHARLES LAMB. 1775—1834.] A COMPLAINT OF THE DECAY OF BEGGARS... | |
 | Young men's Catholic assoc - 1873 - 302 pages
...vessel of war. " Genuine and innocent wit," like this, " is surely," as Sydney Smith himself said, " the flavour of the mind. Man could direct his ways...' charm his pained steps over the burning marie.'" Sydney Smith was not without clerical friends whose humour often provoked and reciprocated his own... | |
 | 1874 - 858 pages
...wine and oil, giving • every man a glad heart and a shining countenance. Genuine and innocent •wit like this is surely the flavour of the mind ! Man...perfumes, to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to support uneasy steps over the burning ..marie." The wit of the subject of the present paper could hardly... | |
 | Judaism - 1874 - 648 pages
...Man could direct his ways by plain reason and tasteless food ; but Gotl has given us wit and flavor and brightness and laughter and perfumes, to enliven...pilgrimage and to charm his pained steps over the burning waste. ADVICE TO THE TEMPERANCE SENSATIONALISTS. GIVE up the nasal tone ; give up the pious distortion... | |
 | John Seely Hart - English language - 1874 - 412 pages
...ways by plain reason, and support his life by tasteless food; but God has given us wit, and flavor, and brightness, and laughter, and perfumes, to enliven...days of man's pilgrimage, and to ' charm his pained ateps over the burning marie. ' " — Sydney Smith. IV. HUMOR. Humor is, in many respects, like wit.... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1874 - 454 pages
...ways by plain reason, and support his life by tasteless food; but GoJ has given us wit, and flavor, and laughter, and perfumes, to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to " charm his painful steps over the burning marie." SCIENCE OF GOVERNMENT. IT would seem that the science of government... | |
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... charm his pained steps over the burning marie. 
