The Young Man and His ProblemsFunk & Wagnalls Company, 1911 - 329 pages |
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Page 145 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Page 209 - Up to the age of thirty, or beyond it, poetry of many kinds, such as the works of Milton, Gray, Byron, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Shelley, gave me great pleasure, and even as a schoolboy I took intense delight in Shakespeare, especially in the historical plays. I have also said that formerly pictures gave me considerable, and music very great delight.
Page 81 - I am convinced digestion is the great secret of life ; and that character, talents, virtues, and qualities are powerfully affected by beef, mutton, piecrust, and rich soups. I have often thought I could feed or starve men into many virtues and vices, and affect them more powerfully with my instruments of cookery than Timotheus could do formerly with his lyre.
Page 182 - If put to a pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
Page 9 - For fourteen years I have not had a day's real health ; I have wakened sick and gone to bed weary, and I have done my work unflinchingly.
Page 43 - I am drawing near to the close of my career ; I am fast shuffling off the stage. I have been perhaps the most voluminous author of the day ; and it is a comfort to me to think that I have tried to unsettle no man's faith, to corrupt no man's principle, and that I have written nothing which on my deathbed I should wish blotted.
Page 211 - He will do more in the same time, he will do it better, he will persevere longer. One is scarcely sensible of fatigue whilst he marches to music. The very stars are said to make harmony as they revolve in their spheres.
Page 211 - Of abdicating power in it : she owned She liked a woman to be womanly, And English women, she thanked God and sighed (Some people always sigh in thanking God), Were models to the universe.
Page 63 - One of my superstitions had always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, not to turn back, or stop until the thing Intended was accomplished.
Page 149 - So you did, father, and in the main I've kept faith with you in this. But you forget what day it is.' What day, indeed! I should like to know if the day has anything to do with the deed?