 | 1837 - 608 pages
...same in wealth and in poverty, in glory and in obscurity. With the dead there is no rivalry. In the dead there is no change. Plato is never sullen. Cervantes...Nothing, then, can be more natural than that a person of sensibility and imagination should entertain a respectful and affectionate feeling towards those... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pages
...same in wealth and in poverty, in glory and in obscurity. With Ihe dead there is no rivalry. In the ic without saying a few words on a transaction, which Mr. Hallam has made the subjer "of a sev come* unseasonably. Dante never stays too long. No difference of political opinion can alienate Cicero.... | |
 | Sir Arthur Helps - 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 - 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 342 pages
...same in wealth and in poverty, in glory and in obscurity. With the dead there is no rivalry. In the dead there is no change. Plato is never sullen. Cervantes...Cicero. No heresy can excite the horror of Bossuet. i. Nothing, then, can be more natural than that a person endowed with sensibility and imagination should... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 764 pages
...same in wealth and in poverty, in glory and in obscurity. With the dead there is no rivalry. In the dead there is no change. Plato is never sullen. Cervantes...opinion can alienate Cicero. No heresy can excite the honor of Bossuet. Nothing, then, can be more natural than that a person of sensibility and imagination... | |
 | 1852 - 780 pages
...never sullen. Ceivantes is never petulant. Demosthenes never comei unseasonably. Dante never slays rom which in his youth he had carried home his bride, Elizabeth, was i honor of Bossuet Nothing, then, can be more natural than thac a person of sensibility and imagination... | |
 | C. Gough - 1853 - 428 pages
...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. Plato is never sullen. Cervantes...difference of political opinion can alienate Cicero. No error can excite the horror of Bossuet. Nothing, then, can be more natural, than that a person endowed... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1855 - 670 pages
...same in wealth and in poverty, in glory and in obscurity : " With the dead there is no rivalry. In the dead there is no change. Plato is never sullen. Cervantes...Cicero. No heresy can excite the horror of Bossuet." Or this, upon the diverse policy of Romanism and Anglicanism respectively, in the case of eccentric... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1855 - 590 pages
...With the dead there is no rivalry. In the dead there is no change. Plato is never sullen. Corvantes is never petulant. Demosthenes never comes unseasonably....Cicero. No heresy can excite the horror of Bossuet." Or this, upon the diverse policy of Romanism and Anglicanism respectively, in the case of eccentric... | |
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... converse which we hold with the 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 in poverty, in glory and... 
