| Sir Thomas Browne - 1893 - 154 Seiten
...animosity of that attempt. It is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him he 1 is at the end of his nature ; or that there is no further state to come, unto which this seemes progressionall, and otherwise made in vaine; Without this accomplishment the naturall expectation... | |
| Joel Chandler Harris - 1896 - 384 Seiten
...instead of fixing expectation on those that are to come. Sir Thomas Browne says it is the heaviest stone melancholy can throw at a man to tell him he is at the end of his nature; but melancholy has pebbles which, on occasions, she fits to her sling. She throws a jagged one when,... | |
| Joel Chandler Harris - 1896 - 382 Seiten
...expeetation on those that are to eome. Sir Thomas Browne says it is the heaviest stone melaneholy ean throw at a man to tell him he is at the end of his nature; hut melaneholv has pehhles whieh, on oeeasious, she fits to her sling. She throws a jagged one when,... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1896 - 252 Seiten
...superior ingredient and obscured part of ourselves, whereto all present felicities afford no resting throw at a man, to tell him he is at the end of Dread of an68 contentment, will be able at last to tell us, we are more than our present selves, and... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1904 - 632 Seiten
...and Cressida, Act ,. Sc. 3. ' A nichname is the heaviest stont,' etc. Cf. ' It is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him he is at the end of his nature.' Sir Thomas Browne, Hydriotaphia, 1v. 23. See also vol. 1n. (Political Estays), p. 261. As Canning pelted... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1907 - 632 Seiten
...confirming his wavering hand unto the CHAP, animosity of that attempt. IV It is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him he...there is no further state to come, unto which this seemes progressional, and otherwise made in vaine ; Without this accomplishment the natural expectation... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1904 - 640 Seiten
...Cressida, Act i. Sc. 3. *• A nickname is the heaviest stone,' etc. Cf. 'It is the heaviest (tone thit melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him he is at the end of his nature.* Sir Thomas Browne, Hydriotaphia, iv. 23. See also vol. III. (Political Essays), p. 261. As Canning... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1904 - 636 Seiten
...Cressida, Act i. Sc. 3. ' A nickname ii tit heaviest Haxe,' eie. Cf. ' It is the heaviest itont ck melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him he is at the end of his man Sir Thomas Browne, Hydriotaphia, IT. 23. See also voL in. (?afac Essays), p. 261. At Canning felted... | |
| Sir James Henry Yoxall - 1909 - 344 Seiten
...entirety of life one pageant of effort and joy. It is indeed, old Sir Thomas Browne, "the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him he is at the end of his nature." But many a man stops short too soon, himself arrests his development, dams and stagnates the running... | |
| Walter Johnson - 1912 - 552 Seiten
...towards the dead in accordance with the word of our English philosopher : " It is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man to tell him he is at the end of his nature'." We have yet to review, very briefly, three or four interesting subjects which fall within the scope... | |
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