 ... 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 - Copyright - 1914 - 374 pages
...vicissitudes — comforters in sorrow, nurses in sickness, companions in solitude, "the old friends 10 who are never seen with new faces ; who are the same...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... | |
 | Books and reading - 1914 - 200 pages
...sorrow, nurses in sickness, companions in solitude, the old friends who are never seen with newfaces; 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... | |
 | United States. Congress. House Appropriations - 1973 - 1644 pages
...because we have been altered in the process of reading it. Macaulay said of great literature : These n re the old friends who are never seen with new faces,...poverty, in glory and in obscurity. With the dead there i« no rivalry. In the dead there is no change. Plato is never sullen. Cervantes is never petulant.... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Best books - 1896 - 50 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... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Knowles - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 1160 pages
...interest of money. Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review 1 1 84 ?) vol. I 'Southey'.s Colloquies' 20 With the dead there is no rivalry. In the dead there...Demosthenes never comes unseasonably. Dante never slays too long. No difference of political opinion can alienate Cicero. No heresy can excite the horror... | |
 | Catharine Edwards - History - 1999 - 316 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'. 11 Eg 15 December 1834, 29 May 1835, 25 August 1835, 30 December 1835. '- On Macaulay 's tastes in... | |
 | Literary Criticism - 2005 - 145 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. Cireat as were the honors and possessions which Macaulay acquired by his pen, all who knew him were... | |
 | Peter Galison, Gerald James Holton, Silvan S. Schweber - Art and science - 2008 - 408 pages
...the advantages of communion with dead authors in the library over conversations with live colleagues: "With the dead there is no rivalry. In the dead there...Demosthenes never comes unseasonably. Dante never stays too long."24 This distanced relationship to colleagues dispersed in time and space had its equivalent on... | |
 | William Murison - English language - 1926 - 452 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...sullen. Cervantes is never petulant. Demosthenes never conies unseasonably. Dante never stays too long. No difference of political opinion can alienate Cicero.... | |
 | 1885 - 588 pages
...the nation threw off the Spanish yoke, John, Dnke of Braganza, was called to the throne as John IV. WITH the dead there is no rivalry ; in the dead there is* no change. Plato is never snllen ; Cervantes is never petulant; Demosthenes never comes unseasonably ; Dante never stays too... | |
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