 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pagini
...death to US. Fables from Several Authors. Fable 398. SHEFFIELD, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. 1649-1720. Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. Eteay on Poetry. There 's no such thing in nature, and you '11 draw A faultless monster which the world... | |
 | Thomas Sergeant Perry - 1883 - 500 pagini
...essay was published. His own blank verse in the translation of the " Ars Poetica " is most crabbed. " Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well :" and he proceeds to give the rules for writing well. " Here I shall all the various sorts of verse,... | |
 | Christian ethics - 1883 - 296 pagini
...Go, work to-day." The Holy Ghost saith, " Be always abounding in the work of the Lord." flErtttng. OF all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief master-piece is writing well. To write well is at once to think well, to feel rightly, and to render properly ; it is to have at... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1883 - 264 pagini
...the King. Surely, therefore, if in any human effort perfection can * This quotation should run : " Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well." SHEFFIELD. Essay ofPottry. be expected, we have a right to expect it in a King's Speech. You shall... | |
 | Otis Henry Tiffany - 1883 - 954 pagini
...author's character, the comprehension of his writing becomes easy. (Longfellow. 786 GEMS FOR THE FIRESIDE. Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. (Sheffield. It is generally supposed that where there is no Quotation, there will be found most originality... | |
 | Robert Waters - 1883 - 612 pagini
...therefore, if in any human effort perfection can be expected, we have a right to expect it in a king's * Of all those arts In which the wise excel. Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well, Sheffield, Earl <y BuckinyhamtMre. speech. You shall now see, then, what pretty stuff is put together,... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1883 - 782 pagini
...author's cares, Or Fancy's fondness for the child she bears. 245 Cowper: Prog, of Error. Line 61ft Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. 246 Sheffield, Duke of Buckinyhamshire: Essay on Poetry. Sometimes an author, fond of his own thought,... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1883 - 310 pagini
...therefore, if in any human effort perfection can be expected, we have a right to expect it in a king's * Or all those arts In which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. Shejfldd, Earl qf Bvckinghamshu e. speech. You shall now see, then, what pretty stuff i.-s put together,... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - 1885 - 508 pagini
...8. A subterranean chapel. 9. To elevate. DYCIE, ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN THE NOVEMBER NUMBKK. REBUS. " Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well." NUMERICAL ENIGMA. " Praise Him for our harvest store, He hath filled the garner floor; And for richer... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1885 - 440 pagini
...; Reason is that substantial, useful part Which gains the head ; while t'other wins the heart.'' " Of all those arts in which the wise excel. Nature's chief master-piece is writing well." " True wit is everlasting like the sun, Which, though sometimes behind a cloud retired. Breaks out... | |
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