 ... is then a beautiful and delightful part of our nature. There is no more interesting spectacle than to see the effects of wit upon the different characters of men ; than to observe it expanding caution, relaxing dignity, unfreezing coldness, teaching...  Harper's New Monthly Magazine - Page 2091857Full view - About this book
 | 1850 - 806 pages
...our nature, and its effects are seen in " expanding caution, relaxing dignity, unfreezing coldness, extorting reluctant gleams of pleasure from melancholy, and charming even the pangs of grief." ' — P. 150. Here there is much truth and good sense ; the strains that follow are of a still higher... | |
 | Sydney Smith - Ethics - 1849 - 446 pages
...thousand times better thanwit;— wit is then a beautiful and delightful part of our nature. There is no more interesting spectacle than to see the effects...it expanding caution, relaxing dignity, unfreezing coldness,—teaching age, and care, and pain, to smile, — extorting reluctant gleams of pleasure... | |
 | Sydney Smith - Ethics - 1850 - 420 pages
...thousand times better than wit ; — wit is then a beautiful and delightful part of our nature. There is no more interesting spectacle than to see the effects...pleasure from melancholy, and charming even the pangs G of grief. It is pleasant to observe how it penetrates through the coldness and awkwardness of society,... | |
 | Sydney Smith - Ethics - 1850 - 428 pages
...thousand times better than wit ; — wit is then a beautiful and delightful part of our nature. There is no more interesting spectacle than to see the effects...pleasure from melancholy, and charming even the pangs G of grief. It is pleasant to observe how it penetrates through the coldness and awkwardness of society,... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1850 - 910 pages
...our nature, and its effects are seen in " expanding caution, relaxing dignity, unfreezing coldness, extorting reluctant gleams of pleasure from melancholy, and charming even the pangs of grief." ' — P. 150. Here there is much truth and good sense ; the strains that follow are of a still higher... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - Calendar reform - 1852 - 314 pages
...thousand times better than wit; wit is then a beautiful and delightful part of our nature. There is no more interesting spectacle than to see the effects...it expanding caution, relaxing dignity, unfreezing coldness,—teaching age, and care, and pain, to smile,—extorting reluctant gleams of pleasure from... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1853 - 766 pages
...thousand times better than wit — wit is then a beautiful and delightful part of our nature. There is no more interesting spectacle than to see the effects...the different characters of men ; than to observe its expanding caution, relaxing dignity, unfreezing coldness — teaching age, and care, and pain to... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1853 - 588 pages
...nature. There is no more interesting spectacle than to see the effect of wit upon the different character of men ; than to observe it expanding caution, relaxing dignity, unfreezing coldness — teachingage, and care, and pain to smile — extorting reluctant gleams of pleasure from melancholy,... | |
 | 1855 - 946 pages
...thousand times better than wit ; wit is then, a beautiful and delightful part of our nature. There is no more interesting spectacle than to see the effects...observe how it penetrates through the coldness and awkardness of society, gradually bringing men nearer together, and, like the combined force of wine... | |
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