| Charles Buck - 1831 - 418 σελίδες
...having some one whom we may tell, from time to time, that solitude is a fine thing :' " and besides, Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil like bales unopened to the sun. 'TU converse qualifies for solitude, As exercise for salutary rest. YouHa. There is, perhaps, some... | |
| Joseph Emerson - 1832 - 122 σελίδες
...fiowr's, So men from Friendship, wisdom and delight ; Twins ty'd by nature ; if they part, they die. Hast thou no friend, to set thy mind abroach ? Good...Thoughts shut up, want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun. IS Had thought been all, sweet speech had been deny'd ; [criterion too ! Speech,... | |
| 1836 - 558 σελίδες
...delight ; Twins, tied by Nature ; if they part they die. Hast thou no friend to set thy mind abroach 1 Good sense will stagnate. Thoughts shut up want air,...to the sun. Had thought been all. sweet speech had been denied; Speech! thought's canal; speech 1 thought's criterion too : Thought in mine may come forth... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1841 - 180 σελίδες
...interdict also upon the formation of opinion, for it is as true, as it is beautifully expressed, that Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopened to the sun: and so, in a very short time there will be no wholesome thought at all. The mind suffocates in such... | |
| 1843 - 174 σελίδες
...the contrary, progress in civilization may be traced as one of the results of a larger vocabulary. " Thoughts shut up, want air, And spoil, like bales unopened to the sun. Thought in the mind, may come forth gold or dross ; When coined in words, we know its real worth. Speech... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1846 - 202 σελίδες
...may be thus produced, where there was nothing of it before. This is but the Poet's principle, that " Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopened to the sun." It is especially so with religious opinion that is suffering tyrannical restraint. It becomes a smouldering... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1846 - 246 σελίδες
...be thus produced, where there was nothing of it before. This is but the poet's principle, that — " Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopened to the aun." It is especially so with religious opinion that is suffering tyrannical restraint. It becomes... | |
| David Perkins Page - 1847 - 384 σελίδες
...one's faults may instruct us. as delineated by Dr. Young, may not be denied to teachers. " Hut them no friend to set thy mind abroach ? Good sense will...to the sun. Had thought been all, sweet speech had been denied. ******* Thought, too, delivered, is the more possessed : Teaching, we learn ; and giving,... | |
| John Milton, Edward Young - 1848 - 600 σελίδες
...Twins, tied by Nature ; if they part,' they die. Hast thou no friend to set thy mind abroach ? 405 Good sense will stagnate. Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun. Had thought been all, sweet speech had been denied ; Speech ! thought's canal... | |
| John Milton - 1849 - 650 σελίδες
...; Twins, tied by Nature ; if they part, they die. Hast Ihou no friend to set thy mind abroach ? 465 Good sense will stagnate. Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun. Had thought been all, sweet speech had been denied ; Speech ! thought's canal... | |
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