 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1854 - 322 pages
...Twins tied by nature, if they part they die. Hast thou no friend to set thy mind" abroach 1 c;0#vGood sense will stagnate : thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopened to the sun. Had thought been all, sweet speech, had been denied ; Speech, thought's canal ! speech, thought's criterion... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1854 - 566 pages
...matter-of-fact affair, a truism. Again, here is a comparison, which is a trifle too long for a proverb : — " Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopened to the sun." Here is a turn of thought equally correct and felicitous : — " Soon as man, expert from tune, has... | |
 | Francis Starr - 1854 - 240 pages
...will be found the truth of the saying, " Fact is stranger than fiction." Some poet has observed, " Thoughts shut up, want air, And Spoil, like Bales unopened to the Sun." Had the writer of these pages permitted his thoughts thus to remain imprisoned, since his first appearance... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 pages
...wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them, what report they bore to heaven. Night ii. Line 466. Thoughts shut up, want air, And spoil like bales unopened to the sun. Night Thoughts —Continual. Night ii. Line 602. How blessings brighten as they take their flight !... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1857 - 394 pages
...judgment publish ; publish to more worlds Than this; and endless age in groans resound. CONVERSATION. Hast thou no friend to set thy mind abroach ? Good...want air, And spoil, like bales unopened to the sun. Had thought been all, sweet speech had been denied: Speech, thought's canal! speech, thought's criterion... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1858 - 562 pages
...cannot perhaps be expressed in words more beautiful and elegant than the following, by Dr Young : — Good sense will stagnate. Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun. Had thought been all, sweet speech had been deny'd ; Speech, thought's canal !... | |
 | Christian classics - 1858 - 870 pages
...conversation cutnot perhaps be expressed in words more beautiful and than the following, by Dr Young : — Good sense will stagnate. Thoughts shut up want air. And spoil, like bales nnopen'd to the sun. Had thought been all, sweet speech had been denr'd ; Speech, thought's canal!... | |
 | David Perkins Page - 1859 - 376 pages
...Young.—Even one's faults may instruct us. as delineated by Dr. Young, may not b'e denied to "cachets. " Hast thou no friend to set thy mind abroach ? •...want air, And spoil like bales unopened to the sun Had thought been all, sweet speech had been denied. * * * * * * . * Thought, too, delivered, is the... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1859 - 436 pages
...cannot perhaps be expressed in words more beautiful and elegant than the following, by Dr Young : — Good sense will stagnate. Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales vmopen'd to the sun. Had thought been all, sweet speech had been deny'd ; Speech, thought's canal !... | |
 | Joshua Priestley - 1859 - 334 pages
...another day, but it occurs to me that I have read Young to little purpose if I have not learnt that — ' Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopened to the sun.' Even 'good sense will stagnate,' and as I am not overburdened with either the one or the other, I will... | |
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Hast thou no friend to set thy mind abroach ; Good Sense will stagnate. Thoughts shut up, want air, And spoil, like bales unopened to the sun. 
