 If there is a man upon earth tormented by the cursed desire to get a whole book into a page, a whole page into a phrase, and this phrase into one word, — that man is myself.' ' I can sow, but I cannot build.' Joubert, however, makes no claim to be a...  Essays in Criticism - Page 233by Matthew Arnold - 1865 - 302 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Morley - Philosophy - 1923 - 322 pages
...suffered from what a famous writer of aphorisms in our time has described as ' the cursed ambition to put a whole book into a page, a whole page into a phrase, and the phrase into a word.' But the moral thought itself in Tacitus mostly belongs less to the practical... | |
 | Classical Association (Great Britain) - Classical literature - 1925 - 654 pages
...metaphor, " Vix vivunt lavanda mutuando." The journalist used to be charged with the ambition to put a whole book into a page, a whole page into a phrase, and the phrase into a word. Time brings its revenges, and sometimes the word is now, as the occasion may... | |
 | Pan American Union - International law - 1926 - 96 pages
...upon his limitations. " If ever a man was tormented," he said, " by the accursed ambition of putting a whole book into a page, a whole page into a phrase, and that phrase into a word, I am that man." In this passage, which is not upon the pamphlet, but which... | |
 | Classical Association (Great Britain) - Classical education - 1927 - 620 pages
...metaphor, " Vix vivunt lavanda mutuando." The journalist used to be charged with the ambition to put a whole book into a page, a whole page into a phrase, and the phrase into a word. Time brings its revenges, and sometimes the word is now, as the occasion may... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1928 - 280 pages
...chasing these butterflies of thought, and who was cursed, he also tells us, with the ambition to put a whole book into a page, a whole page into a phrase, and that phrase into a word, has revealed to us some of the secrets of this difficult art, which his compatriots... | |
 | 1909 - 656 pages
...a man who lias better fulfilled that aspiration stated in such condensed words by Joubert, 'to put a whole book into a page, a whole page into a phrase, and that phrase into a word. After all, it is phrases and words won like this which give immortality."... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Criticism - 1962 - 598 pages
...something a little too ethereal in all this, something which reminds one of Joubert's physical want of 35 body and substance; no doubt, if a man wishes to be...into a page, a whole page into a phrase, and this 5 phrase into one word, — that man is myself." "I can sow, but I cannot build." Joubert, however,... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - Periodicals - 1864 - 602 pages
...beget confidence in the man who, in order to make his thoughts more clearly perceived, uses them j for people feel that such an employment of the language...whole page into a phrase, and this phrase into one word — that mania myself." "I can sow, but I cannot build." Joubert, however, makes no claim to be... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Criticism - 1883 - 404 pages
...short, often die without leaving a monument, having had their own inward sense of life and fruitf ulness for their best reward." No doubt there is something...whole page into a phrase, and this phrase into one word, — that man is myself." "I can sow, but I cannot build." Joubert, however, makes no claim to... | |
 | 1905 - 1118 pages
...paragraphs; and though their author says that he above all men has been accursed with a desire to put "a whole book into a page, a whole page into a phrase, and this phrase into a single word," it is evident that his editors do not wish to assign to each of his maxims the false... | |
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