 | 1856 - Liczba stron: 430
...expressions of exquisite beauty, play in across the narrativa, till it sparkles like a prism. It is rich in "Jewels, five words long. That on the stretched forefinger of all time, Sparkle forever." Here is a little lyric, that almost seems as if it must have been written at sunset, and... | |
 | William Fleming - 1860 - Liczba stron: 912
...1 Heraclitus is known by his aphorisms, which are among the most brilliant of those " Jewels, live words long, That on the stretched fore-finger of all time, Sparkle for ever." Among the most famous are, — War is father of all things, ie, all things are evolved by antagonistic... | |
 | William Fleming - 1860 - Liczba stron: 710
...' Ileraclitus is known by his aphorisms, which are among the most brilliant of those " Jewels, fire words long, That on the stretched, fore-finger of all time, Sparkle for CTer." Among the most famous are, — War is father of all things, te, all tilings are evolved by antagonistic... | |
 | 1862 - Liczba stron: 568
...of Shelley, Essex, in 1662. CH & THOMPSON COOPEB. Cambridge. TEXNYSON (3rd S. ii. 431.)— " . . . Jewels, five words long, That on the stretched forefinger of all Time Sparkle for ever." — The Princess, p. 48. MEBMENTBUDE. OFFICIAL ARMS OP REGIUS PROFESSORS (3rd S. i. 311.)— Perhaps... | |
 | Sir John Skelton - 1862 - Liczba stron: 512
...himself among women," it is pleasant sometimes to muse over the deep sayings of the Masters — those " jewels five words long, that, on the stretched forefinger of all time, sparkle for ever." Shakspeare's, for instance, are like those in Holy Writ. You never feel sure that you have got to the... | |
 | 1863 - Liczba stron: 744
...Tennyson may be presumed to refer to epigrams, when he makes his professors in petticoats quote — " Jewels five words long, That, on the stretched forefinger of all time, Sparkle for ever." But the phrase of Keats—" the rapier- pointed epigram" — is a better definition. The epigram should... | |
 | George Herbert - 1863 - Liczba stron: 732
...Tennyson may be presumed to refer to epigrams, when he makes his professors in petticoats quote — "Jewels five words long, That, on the stretched forefinger of all time, Sparkle for ever." But the phrase of Keate— " the rapier- pointed epigram" — is a better definition. The epigram should... | |
 | Edwin Hubbell Chapin - 1866 - Liczba stron: 376
...jr:-:.'->i .V - . '.I '.' » > i L [ LIVING WORDS, BT EH CHAPIN, DD WITH AN INTRODUCTORY BT REV. TS KINO. "Jewels five words long. That on the stretched fore-finger of all time Sparkle forever." BOSTON: c j NE UNIVEBSALIST PUBLISHING HOUES, NO. 37 COBNHILL. 1866. C UM«. 10- S' HARVANB... | |
 | Alonzo Hall Quint - 1867 - Liczba stron: 572
...immortal, a part of the circulating wealth of the intellectual realm. This expression is one of those — " Jewels, five words long, That on the stretched forefinger of all time Sparkle for ever." In the quarry of that rich and creative mind many such crystals of speech were elaborated, — symmetrical,... | |
 | William Fleming - 1867 - Liczba stron: 700
...unmethodical sentences." ' Heraclitus is known by his aphorisms, which are among the most brilliant of those " Jewels, five words long, That on the stretched fore-finger of all time, Sparkle for ever." Among the most famous are, — War is father of all things, ». «., all things are evolved by antagonistic... | |
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... jewels five words long That on the stretched fore-finger of all time Sparkle for ever. 
