Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for huma...n deglutition.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare, One cordial in this melancholy vale,... 'T is when a youthful, loving, modest pair In other's arms breathe out the tender tale,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O thou undaunted daughter of desires! By all thy dower of lights and fires;... By all the eagle in thee, all the dove; By all thy lives and deaths of love; By thy large draughts of intellectual day, And by thy thirsts of love more large then they; By all thy brim-fill'd Bowls of fierce desire, By thy last Morning's draught of liquid fire; By the full kingdom of that final kiss That seiz'd thy parting Soul, and seal'd thee his;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable.... It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fair water.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That daily the night falls; that over stresses and torments, cares and sorrows the blessing of sleep unfolds, stilling and quenchi...ng them; that every anew this draught of refreshment and lethe is offered to our parching lips, ever after the battle this mildness laves our shaking limbs, that from it, purified from sweat and dust and blood, strengthened, renewed, rejuvenated, almost innocent once more, almost with pristine courage and zeal we may go forth again--these I hold to be the benignest, the most moving of all the great facts of life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep ...me from ever completing anything. This whole book is but a draught--nay, but the draught of a draught. Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People who wish to numb our caution in dealing with them by means of flattery are employing a dangerous expedient, like a sleeping... draught, which, if it does not put us to sleep, keeps us all the more awake.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »