... 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 is disturbed by no jealousies or resentments. Essays and Addresses, 1900-1903 - Page 90by Sir John Lubbock - 1903 - 296 pagesFull view - About this book
| George Otto Trevelyan - 1876 - 652 pages
...by him in all vicissitudes, — comforters in sorrow, nurses in sickness, companions in solitude, " the old friends who are never seen with new faces...wealth and in poverty, in glory and in obscurity." Great as were the honors and possessions which Macaulay acquired by his pen, all who knew him were... | |
| George Otto Trevelyan - 1876 - 422 pages
...by him in all vicissitndes — comforters in sorrow, nurses in sickness, companions in solitude, " the old friends who are never seen with new faces...the same in wealth and in poverty, in glory and in obscnrity." Great as were the honors and possessions which Macaulay acqnired by his pen, all who knew... | |
| William Chauncey Fowler - Clergy - 1876 - 314 pages
...such causes can affect the silent intercourse which .we hold with the highest of human intellects, These are the old friends who are never seen with new faces, who are the same in wealth or in poverty, in glory or in obscurity."* Having spoken of the importance and value of a liberal education,... | |
| English literature - 1876 - 606 pages
...nurses in sickness, companions in solitude, " the old friends who are " never seen with new laces; who are the same in wealth and in •• poverty, in glory and in obscurity." Great as were the honours and possessions which Macaulay acquired by his pen, all who knew him were... | |
| Frederic Beecher Perkins - Best books - 1877 - 364 pages
...highest of human intellects. That placid intercourse IB disturbed by no jealousies or resentments. There are the old friends who are never seen with new faces,...no rivalry. In the dead there is no change. Plato If never sullen. Cervantes is never petulant. Demosthenes never comes unseasonably Dante never stays... | |
| American literature - 1873 - 164 pages
...and be certain to find the same unvarying expression of welcome. '• In the dead," says Macaulay, "there is no change. Plato is never sullen. Cervantes...never comes unseasonably. Dante never stays too long/' Their association, therefore, has some advantages over the living companionship of the very men, however... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 828 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...Demosthenes never comes unseasonably.. Dante never stays too loner. No difference of political opinion can alienate Cicero. No heresy can excite the horror of Bossuet.... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...highest of human intellects. That placid intercourse is disturbed by no jealousies or resentments.. 6 6 6 conies unseasonably. Dante never stays too long. No difference of political opinion can alienate Cicero.... | |
| Best books - 1881 - 374 pages
...highest of human intellects. That placid intercourse ia disturbed by no jealousies or resentments. There are the old friends who are never seen with new faces,...never petulant. Demosthenes never comes unseasonably Dant« nover stays too long. No difference of political opinion can alienate Cicero. No heresy can... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - English essays - 1881 - 386 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...are the same in wealth and in poverty, in glory and obscurity. With the dead there is no rivalry. In the dead there is no change. Plato is never sullen.... | |
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