In fact the whole passion ordinarily termed love (and heaven help me if I can think of any other term to apply to it) is of such e...xceeding triviality that I see nothing that I think comparable with it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What were habitually his final meditations? Of some one sole unique advertisement to cause passers to stop in wonder, a poster nov...elty, with all extraneous accretions excluded, reduced to its simplest and most efficient terms not exceeding the span of casual vision and congruous with the velocity of modern life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The exceeding delight we take in talking about ourselves should give us cause to fear that we are giving but very little pleasure ...to our listeners.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nothing is more contagious than example, and no man does any exceeding good or exceeding ill but it spawns new deeds of the same k...ind. The good we imitate through emulation, the ill through the malignity of our nature, which shame keeps locked up, but example sets free.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You will see Coleridge--he who sits obscure In the exceeding lustre and the pure... Intense irradiation of a mind, Which, with its own internal lightning blind, Flags wearily through darkness and despair-- A cloud-encircled meteor of the air, A hooded eagle among blinking owls.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He is not heroic, as Raleigh, nor pious, as Herbert, nor philosophical, as Shakespeare, but he is the child of the English muse, t...hat child which is the father of the man. The charm of his poetry consists often only in an exceeding naturalness, perfect sincerity, with the behavior of a child rather than of a man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Even when seen from near, the olive shows A hue of far away. Perhaps for this... The dove brought olive back, a tree which grows Unearthly pale, which ever dims and dries, And whose great thirst, exceeding all excess, Teaches the South it is not paradise.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »