 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1854 - 322 σελίδες
...Twins tied by nature, if they part they die. Hast thou no friend to set thy mind" abroach 1 c;0#vGood sense will stagnate : thoughts shut up want air, And...to the sun. Had thought been all, sweet speech, had been denied ; Speech, thought's canal ! speech, thought's criterion too ! Thought in the mine may come... | |
 | Francis Starr - 1854 - 240 σελίδες
...will be found the truth of the saying, " Fact is stranger than fiction." Some poet has observed, " Thoughts shut up, want air, And Spoil, like Bales unopened to the Sun." Had the writer of these pages permitted his thoughts thus to remain imprisoned, since his first appearance... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1854 - 566 σελίδες
...matter-of-fact affair, a truism. Again, here is a comparison, which is a trifle too long for a proverb : — " Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopened to the sun." Here is a turn of thought equally correct and felicitous : — " Soon as man, expert from tune, has... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 σελίδες
...wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them, what report they bore to heaven. Night ii. Line 466. Thoughts shut up, want air, And spoil like bales unopened to the sun. Night Thoughts —Continual. Night ii. Line 602. How blessings brighten as they take their flight !... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1857 - 394 σελίδες
...judgment publish ; publish to more worlds Than this; and endless age in groans resound. CONVERSATION. Hast thou no friend to set thy mind abroach ? Good...to the sun. Had thought been all, sweet speech had been denied: Speech, thought's canal! speech, thought's criterion too* Thought in the mine may come... | |
 | David Perkins Page - 1857 - 366 σελίδες
...— Even one's faults may instruct us. as delineated by Dr. Young, may not be denied to «eachers. " Hast thou no friend to set thy mind abroach ! Good...to the sun. Had thought been all, sweet speech had been denied. ******* Thought, too, delivered, is the more possessed : Teaching, we learn ; and giving,... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1858 - 562 σελίδες
...cannot perhaps be expressed in words more beautiful and elegant than the following, by Dr Young : — 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 deny'd ; Speech, thought's canal !... | |
 | Christian classics - 1858 - 870 σελίδες
...conversation cutnot perhaps be expressed in words more beautiful and than the following, by Dr Young : — Good sense will stagnate. Thoughts shut up want air. And spoil, like bales nnopen'd to the sun. Had thought been all, sweet speech had been denr'd ; Speech, thought's canal!... | |
 | David Perkins Page - 1859 - 376 σελίδες
...Young.—Even one's faults may instruct us. as delineated by Dr. Young, may not b'e denied to "cachets. " Hast thou no friend to set thy mind abroach ? •...to the sun Had thought been all, sweet speech had been denied. * * * * * * . * Thought, too, delivered, is the more possessed : Teaching, we learn; and... | |
 | Joshua Priestley - 1859 - 334 σελίδες
...another day, but it occurs to me that I have read Young to little purpose if I have not learnt that — ' Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopened to the sun.' Even 'good sense will stagnate,' and as I am not overburdened with either the one or the other, I will... | |
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Hast thou no friend to set thy mind abroach ; Good Sense will stagnate. Thoughts shut up, want air, And spoil, like bales unopened to the sun. 
