 | Books - 1823 - 428 pages
...English learning. He is the text for the moralist and the philosopher. His bright wit is cut out " into little stars :" his solid masses of knowledge...illuminate, or a cottage which he does not enrich. His bounty is like the sea, which, though often unacknowledged, is everywhere felt ; on mountains and... | |
 | Books - 1823 - 428 pages
...English learning. He is the text for the moralist and the philosopher. His bright wit is cut out " into little stars :" his solid masses of knowledge...illuminate, or a cottage which he does not enrich. His bounty is like the sea, which, though often unacknowledged, is everywhere felt ; on mountains and... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1828 - 520 pages
...English learning. He is the text for the moralist and the philosopher. His bright wit is cut out " into little stars ;" his solid masses of knowledge...illuminate, or a cottage which he does not enrich. His bounty is like the sea, which, though often unacknowledged, is every where felt; on mountains and... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Dramatists, English - 1828 - 522 pages
...English learning. He is the text for the moralist and the philosopher. His bright wit is cut out " into little stars;" his solid masses of knowledge...illuminate, or a cottage which he does not enrich. His bounty is like the sea, which, though often unacknowledged, is every where felt; on mountains and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 484 pages
...of English learning. He is the text for the moralist and the philosopher.* His bright wit is cut out "into little stars:" his solid masses of knowledge...illuminate, or a cottage which he does not enrich. His bounty is like the sea, which, though often unacknowledged, is every where felt; on mountains and... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Thomas Price - 1839 - 480 pages
...English learning. He is the text for the moralist and the philosopher.* His bright wit is cut out ' into little stars :' his solid masses of knowledge...illuminate, or a cottage which he does not enrich. His bounty is like the sea, which, though often unacknowledged, is every where felt ; on mountains... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1849 - 582 pages
...said of Shakspere, "lie is the text for the moralist and the philosopher. His bright wit is cut out ' into little stars ;' his solid masses of knowledge...morsels and proverbs ; and, thus distributed, there is scareely a corner which he does not illuminate, or a cottage which he does not enrich."* This is by... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1849 - 446 pages
...English learning. He is the text for the moralist and the philosopher. His bright wit is cut out ' into little stars ; ' his solid masses of knowledge...out in morsels and proverbs ; and thus distributed, 20 there is scarcely a corner which he does not illuminate, or a cottage which he does not enrich.... | |
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into little stars :" his solid masses of knowledge are meted out in morsels and proverbs ; and, thus distributed, there is scarcely a corner which he does not illuminate, or a cottage which he does not enrich. 
