 | 1856 - 430 pages
...expressions of exquisite beauty, play in across the narrativa, till it sparkles like a prism. It is rich in "Jewels, five words long. That on the stretched forefinger of all time, Sparkle forever." Here is a little lyric, that almost seems as if it must have been written at sunset, and... | |
 | William Fleming - Philosophy - 1860 - 912 pages
...1 Heraclitus is known by his aphorisms, which are among the most brilliant of those " Jewels, live words long, That on the stretched fore-finger of all time, Sparkle for ever." Among the most famous are, — War is father of all things, ie, all things are evolved by antagonistic... | |
 | William Fleming - Philosophy - 1860 - 710 pages
...' Ileraclitus is known by his aphorisms, which are among the most brilliant of those " Jewels, fire words long, That on the stretched, fore-finger of all time, Sparkle for CTer." Among the most famous are, — War is father of all things, te, all tilings are evolved by antagonistic... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1862 - 568 pages
...of Shelley, Essex, in 1662. CH & THOMPSON COOPEB. Cambridge. TEXNYSON (3rd S. ii. 431.)— " . . . Jewels, five words long, That on the stretched forefinger of all Time Sparkle for ever." — The Princess, p. 48. MEBMENTBUDE. OFFICIAL ARMS OP REGIUS PROFESSORS (3rd S. i. 311.)— Perhaps... | |
 | Sir John Skelton - Essays - 1862 - 512 pages
...himself among women," it is pleasant sometimes to muse over the deep sayings of the Masters — those " jewels five words long, that, on the stretched forefinger of all time, sparkle for ever." Shakspeare's, for instance, are like those in Holy Writ. You never feel sure that you have got to the... | |
 | 1863 - 744 pages
...Tennyson may be presumed to refer to epigrams, when he makes his professors in petticoats quote — " Jewels five words long, That, on the stretched forefinger of all time, Sparkle for ever." But the phrase of Keats—" the rapier- pointed epigram" — is a better definition. The epigram should... | |
 | George Herbert - 1863 - 732 pages
...Tennyson may be presumed to refer to epigrams, when he makes his professors in petticoats quote — "Jewels five words long, That, on the stretched forefinger of all time, Sparkle for ever." But the phrase of Keate— " the rapier- pointed epigram" — is a better definition. The epigram should... | |
 | Edwin Hubbell Chapin - 1866 - 376 pages
...jr:-:.'->i .V - . '.I '.' » > i L [ LIVING WORDS, BT EH CHAPIN, DD WITH AN INTRODUCTORY BT REV. TS KINO. "Jewels five words long. That on the stretched fore-finger of all time Sparkle forever." BOSTON: c j NE UNIVEBSALIST PUBLISHING HOUES, NO. 37 COBNHILL. 1866. C UM«. 10- S' HARVANB... | |
 | Alonzo Hall Quint - Massachusetts - 1867 - 572 pages
...immortal, a part of the circulating wealth of the intellectual realm. This expression is one of those — " Jewels, five words long, That on the stretched forefinger of all time Sparkle for ever." In the quarry of that rich and creative mind many such crystals of speech were elaborated, — symmetrical,... | |
 | William Fleming - Philosophy - 1867 - 700 pages
...unmethodical sentences." ' Heraclitus is known by his aphorisms, which are among the most brilliant of those " Jewels, five words long, That on the stretched fore-finger of all time, Sparkle for ever." Among the most famous are, — War is father of all things, ». «., all things are evolved by antagonistic... | |
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Jewels, five words long, That on the stretched fore-finger of all time, Sparkle for ever. 
