Hidden fields
Books Books
" Time glides on ; fortune is 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.... "
The Methodist Quarterly Review - Page 224
1877
Full view - About this book

The cynosure, select passages from the most distinguished writers [ed. by ...

Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pages
...such cause can affect the silent converse which we hold with the highest of human intellects. That placid intercourse is disturbed by no jealousies or...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...
Full view - About this book

Littell's Living Age, Volume 201

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....
Full view - About this book

Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pages
...such cause can affect the silent converse which we hold with the highest of human intellects. That Ihe dead there is no rivalry. In the dead there is no change. Plato is never sullen. Cervantes is never...
Full view - About this book

The Modern British Essayists: Macaulay, T.B. 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...
Full view - About this book

Littell's Living Age, Volume 1; Volume 37

1853 - 848 pages
...no such cause can affect the silent converse which we hold with the highest human intellects. That placid intercourse is disturbed by no jealousies or...wealth and in poverty, in glory and in obscurity. . . . Nothing, then, can be more natural, than that a person endowed with sensibility and imagination...
Full view - About this book

The cruet stand, select pieces of prose and poetry, Volume 1

C. Gough - 1853 - 428 pages
...such cause can affect the silent converse which we hold with the highest of human intellects. That placid intercourse is disturbed by no jealousies or...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....
Full view - About this book

Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 2

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1854 - 430 pages
...such cause can affect the silent converse which we hold with the highest of human intellects. That placid intercourse is disturbed by no jealousies or...These are the old friends who are never seen with hew faces, who are the same in wealth and in poverty, in flory and in obscurity. With the dead there...
Full view - About this book

Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 35

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 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...
Full view - About this book

Bombay Quarterly Review, Volume 1, Issue 1

1855 - 864 pages
...such cause cun affect the silent 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 that are never seen with new faces ; who are the same in wealth and in poverty, in glory and in obscurity....
Full view - About this book

Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 770 pages
...such cause can affect the silent converse which we hold with the highest of human intellects. That placid intercourse is disturbed by no jealousies or...sullen. Cervantes is never petulant. Demosthenes never curnes unseasonably. Dante never slays too long. No difference of political opinion can alienate Cicero....
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF