 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pagina’s
...tempers are soured; bonds which seemed indissoluble are daily surrendered by interest, by emulation, by caprice. But no such cause can affect the silent...glory and in obscurity. With the dead there is no rivalry,—in the dead there is no change. EDINBURGH REVIEW. IF Love be holy, if that mystery Of co-united... | |
 | Spencer Hall - 1841 - 48 pagina’s
...by; fortune is inconstant; tempers are soured; bonds which seemed indissoluble, are daily sundered by interest, by emulation, or by caprice. But no such...which we hold with the highest of human intellects. The debt which the man of liberal education owes to them is incalculable; they have guided him to truth... | |
 | 1894 - 856 pagina’s
...been read and re-read, and, as it were, clasped to the heart, that they become in Macanlay's words, " the old friends who are never seen with new faces ; who are the same in wealth and poverty, iii glory and in obscurity." To know even one book in this way is to gain a spiritual revelation.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pagina’s
...; fortune is inconstant; tempers are soured; bonds which seemed indissoluble are daily sundered by interest, by emulation, or by caprice. But no such...wealth and in poverty, in glory and in obscurity. With Ihe dead there is no rivalry. In the dead there is no change. Plato is never sullen. Cervantes is never... | |
 | 1852 - 780 pagina’s
...fortune is inconstant ; tempers are soured ; bonds which seemed indissoluble are daily sundered by reater than in any former age. Her acquisitions in...World have more than compensated her for what she ara the old friends who are never seen with new faces, who are the same in wealth and in, poverty,... | |
 | C. Gough - 1853 - 428 pagina’s
...fortune is inconstant ; tempers are soured ; bonds, which seemed indissoluble, are daily sundered by interest, by emulation, or by caprice. But no such...seen with new faces, who are the same in wealth and poverty, in glory and obscurity. With the dead there is no rivalry. In the dead there is no change.... | |
 | 1853 - 848 pagina’s
...on, fortune is inconstant, tempers are soured, bonds which seemed indissoluble are daily sundered by interest, by emulation, or by caprice. But no such...the silent converse which we hold with the highest human intellects. That placid intercourse is disturbed by no jealousies or resentments. These are the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1854 - 430 pagina’s
...by; fortune is inconstant; tempers are soured; bonds which seemed indissoluble are daily sundered by interest, by emulation, or by caprice. But no such...These are the old friends who are never seen with hew faces, who are the same in wealth and in poverty, in flory and in obscurity. With the dead there... | |
 | 1855 - 864 pagina’s
...seemed indissoluble are daily sundered, by interest, by emulation, or by caprice. But no such cause cun affect the silent converse which we hold with the...jealousies or resentments. These are the old friends that are never seen with new faces ; who are the same in wealth and in poverty, in glory and in obscurity.... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1856 - 520 pagina’s
...fortune is inconstant ; tempers are soured ; bonds which seemed indissoluble are daily sundered by interest, by emulation, or by caprice. But no such...old friends who are never seen with new faces, who arc the same in wealth and in poverty, in glory and in obscurity. With the dead there is no rivalry.... | |
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These friendships are exposed to no danger from the occurrences by which other attachments are weakened or dissolved. Time glides on ; fortune is inconstant ; tempers are soured ; bonds which seemed indissoluble are daily sundered by interest, by emulation,... 
