Two Essays on Old Age & Friendship

Ön Kapak
Macmillan, 1903 - 210 sayfa
 

Diğer baskılar - Tümünü görüntüle

Sık kullanılan terimler ve kelime öbekleri

Popüler pasajlar

Sayfa 7 - To die, to sleep : To sleep : perchance to dream : ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause...
Sayfa 195 - Morte d'Arthur.— SIR THOMAS MALORY'S BOOK OF KING ARTHUR AND OF HIS NOBLE KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE. The original Edition of CAXTON, revised for Modern Use. With an Introduction by Sir EDWARD STRACHEY, Bart. pp. xxxvii., 509. "It is with perfect confidence that we recommend this edition of the old romance to every class of readers.
Sayfa 8 - everywhere Two heads in council, two beside the hearth, Two in the tangled business of the world, Two in the liberal offices of life, Two plummets dropt for one to sound the abyss Of science, and the secrets of the mind : Musician, painter, sculptor, critic, more: And everywhere the broad and bounteous Earth Should bear a double growth of those rare souls, Poets, whose thoughts enrich the blood of the world.
Sayfa 196 - BACON'S ESSAYS: Colours of Good and Evil; and Advancement of Learning I vol. SHERIDAN'S PLAYS I vol. MALORY'S MORTE D'ARTHUR 2 vols. STERNE'S TRISTRAM SHANDY AND SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY 2 vols. BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON .... 3 vols. CARLYLE'S FRENCH REVOLUTION . . . 2 vols. FIELDING'S TOM JONES 2 vols. WHITE'S NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE I voL TRAVELS OF SIR JOHN MANDEVILLE, with Illustrative Narratives from Hakluyt . I vol.
Sayfa 195 - DRYDEN'S POETICAL WORKS. Edited, with a Revised Text and Notes, by WD CHRISTIE, MA, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Sayfa 194 - Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, the Astronomer-Poet of Persia. Rendered into English Verse by EDWARD FlTzGEBALD.
Sayfa 194 - Guesses at Truth. By Two BROTHERS. New Edition. The Cavalier and his Lady. Selections from the Works of the First Duke and Duchess of Newcastle. With an Introductory Essay by EDWARD JENKINS, Author of " Ginx's Baby,
Sayfa 194 - The Trial and Death of Socrates. Being the Euthyphron, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Plato.
Sayfa 46 - ... old age is respectable just as long as it asserts itself, maintains its proper rights and is not enslaved to anyone . . . the great affairs of- life are not performed by physical strength, or activity or nimbleness of body, but by deliberation, character, expression of opinion. Of these old age is not only not deprived ; but, as a rule, has these in a greater degree. . . . Old men retain their intellects...
Sayfa 12 - For from the burden of impending or at least advancing age, common to us both, I would do something to relieve us both: though as to yourself I am fully aware that you support and will support it, as you do everything else, with calmness and philosophy. But directly I resolved to write on old age, you at once occurred to me as deserving a gift of which both of us might take advantage. To myself, indeed, the composition of this book...

Kaynakça bilgileri