 ... 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
 | Edward Cornelius Toune, Graeme Mercer Adam - 1897 - 692 pages
...stood 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... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - English essays - 1900 - 468 pages
...stood 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... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1904 - 758 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...is no change. Plato is never sullen. Cervantes is neverpetulant. Demosthenes never comes unseasonably. Dante never stays too long. No difference , of... | |
 | Books - 1901 - 140 pages
...stood 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 glor-y and in obscurity. Great as were the honors and possessions which Macaulay acquired by his pen, all who knew him were... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1901 - 286 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 rivalry. In the dead Cervantes is never Dante never opinion can alienate Bossnet." m Risbc? H-tQ w... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - English literature - 1902 - 450 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1903 - 506 pages
...highest of human intellects. That pjacicl intercourse is disturbed by no jealousies or resentments. These are the old friends who are never seen with...and in obscurity. With the dead there is no rivalry. /7 f ' In the dead there.is no' change. Plato is never sullen. _Cer/ . A vantgs is never petulant.... | |
 | George Gilbert Ramsay - Latin language - 1903 - 456 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...wealth and in poverty, in glory and in obscurity. Macaulay. CCCCIX. The Temper for Right Taste. The temper, therefore, by which right taste is formed,... | |
 | William Francis Henry King - Proverbs - 1904 - 500 pages
...René Chas. Guilbert (Pixérécourt) as motto for his book -plate. Macaulay says (Essay on Bacon), "With the dead there is no rivalry. In the dead there...never comes unseasonably. Dante never stays too long," etc. Jean Grolier (1479-1665), bibliophile and statesman under three of the Valois princes, is not... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1905 - 174 pages
...withdrew from public and from social life, and spent his time more and more among his books,—"the old friends who are never seen with new faces; who are the same in wealth and poverty, in glory and in obscurity," he said of them. In 1859, he was found dead in his chair, and... | |
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