 ... inconstant ; tempers are soured ; bonds which seemed indissoluble are daily sundered by interest, by emulation, or by caprice. But no such cause can affect the silent converse which we hold with the highest of human intellects. That placid intercourse...  The Indiana School Journal - Page 5501880Full view - About this book
 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pages
...highest of human intellects. That placid intercourse is disturbed by no jealousies or resentments. These are the old friends who are never seen with new faces,...glory and in obscurity. With the dead there is no rivalry,—in the dead there is no change. EDINBURGH REVIEW. IF Love be holy, if that mystery Of co-united... | |
 | American periodicals - 1894 - 856 pages
...been read and re-read, and, as it were, clasped to the heart, that they become in Macanlay's words, " the old friends who are never seen with new faces ; who are the same in wealth and poverty, iii glory and in obscurity." To know even one book in this way is to gain a spiritual revelation.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...highest of human intellects. That placid intercourse is disturbed by no jealousies or resentments. These Ihe dead there is no rivalry. In the dead there is no change. Plato is never sullen. Cervantes is never... | |
 | Sir Arthur Helps - Conduct of life - 1849 - 254 pages
...remember this important distinction — that one can put the books down at any time. As Macaulay says, " Plato is never sullen. Cervantes " is never petulant....comes " unseasonably. Dante never stays too long." MILVERTON. Besides, one can manage to agree so well, intellectually, with a book ; and intellectual... | |
 | Sir Arthur Helps - Conduct of life - 1849 - 260 pages
...remember this important distinction — that one can put the books down at any time. As Macaulay says, " Plato is never sullen. Cervantes " is never petulant....comes " unseasonably. Dante never stays too long." MILVERTON. Besides, one can manage to agree so well, intellectually, with a book ; and intellectual... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 780 pages
...of human intellects. That placid intercourse is disturbed by no jealousies or resentments. These ara vice in which he was employed after his return to...reduction of the stronghold of Gheriah. This fortress, bu j dead there is no rivalry. In the dead there is no change. Plato is never sullen. Ceivantes is never... | |
 | American periodicals - 1853 - 848 pages
...highest human intellects. That placid intercourse is disturbed by no jealousies or resentments. These are the old friends who are never seen with new faces,...wealth and in poverty, in glory and in obscurity. . . . Nothing, then, can be more natural, than that a person endowed with sensibility and imagination... | |
 | C. Gough - 1853 - 428 pages
...highest of human intellects. That placid intercourse is disturbed by no jealousies or resentments. These are the old friends who are never seen with new faces, who are the same in wealth and poverty, in glory and obscurity. With the dead there is no rivalry. In the dead there is no change.... | |
 | India - 1855 - 864 pages
...That placid intercourse is disturbed by no jealousies or resentments. These are the old friends that are never seen with new faces ; who are the same in...there is no rivalry. In the dead there is no change. 1'lato is never sullen. Cervantes is never petulant. Demosthenes never comes unseasonably. Dante never... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1855 - 590 pages
...feeling of educated men towards great old books, those old friends who are never seen with new faces, but are the same in wealth and in poverty, in glory and...the dead there is no change. Plato is never sullen. Corvantes is never petulant. Demosthenes never comes unseasonably. Dante never stays too long. No difference... | |
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