Truth, what is it? and opinion, what is it not?

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J. Fletcher, 1840 - 160 pages
 

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Page 74 - The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!
Page 75 - And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.
Page 128 - is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men ; because that which may be known of God is manifest to them, for God hath showed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead ; so that they are without excuse...
Page 75 - The earth is utterly broken down, The earth is clean dissolved, The earth is moved exceedingly. The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, And shall be removed like a cottage; And the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; And it shall fall, and not rise again.
Page 31 - The business of a poet," said Imlac, "is to examine • not the individual but the species; to remark general properties and large appearances. He does not number the streaks of the tulip or describe the different shades in the verdure of the forest.
Page 79 - If an alteration does take place, it is only by the springing up of a new language, phoenix like, from the ashes of another; and even where this succession has happened, as in that of Italian to Latin, and of English to AngloSaxon, there is a veil of secrecy thrown over the change, the language seems to spin a web of mystery round itself, and enter into the chrysalis state; and we see it no more till it emerges, sometimes more, sometimes less beautiful, but always fully fashioned, and no farther...
Page 78 - I must totally dissent; for hitherto the experience of several thousand years does not afford us a single example of spontaneous development in any speech. At whatever period we meet a language, we find it complete as to its essential and characteristic qualities. It may receive a finer polish, a greater copiousness, a more varied construction ; but its specific distinctives, its vital principle, its soul, if I may so call it, appears fully formed, and can change no more.
Page 125 - Come away, Help our decay. Man is out of order hurl'd, Parcel'd out to all the world.
Page 105 - As a fruit-tree is more valuable than any one of its fruits singly, or even than all its fruits of a single season, so the noblest object of reflection is the mind itself, by which we reflect : And as the blossoms, the green, and the ripe, fruit of an orange-tree are more beautiful to behold when on the tree and seen as one with it, than the same growth detached and seen successively, after their importation into another country and different clime ; so it is with the manifold objects...
Page 153 - is the true light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

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