Isaac Disraeli
Isaac Disraeli
Isaac D'Israeliwas a British writer, scholar and man of letters. He is best known for his essays, his associations with other men of letters, and as the father of British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli...
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study influence glory
The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has only produced an idle contest.
philosophical imagination age
Theories of genius are the peculiar constructions of our own philosophical times; ages of genius had passed away, and they left no other record than their works; no preconcerted theory described the workings of the imagination to be without imagination, nor did they venture to teach how to invent invention.
beautiful circles perfect
A circle may be small, yet it may be as mathematically beautiful and perfect as a large one.
education age genius
Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins.
friendship feelings manners
Literary friendship is a sympathy not of manners, but of feelings.
art world taste
The poet must be alike polished by an intercourse with the world as with the studies of taste; one to whom labour is negligence, refinement a science, and art a nature.
reading great-work states
A great work always leaves us in a state of musing.
book eye light
Golden volumes! richest treasures, Objects of delicious pleasures! You my eyes rejoicing please, You my hand in rapture seize! Brilliant wits and musing sages, Lights who beam'd through many ages! Left to your conscious leaves their story, And dared to trust you with their glory; And now their hope of fame achiev'd, Dear volumes! you have not deceived!
may quotations
One may quote till one compiles.
art practice delicacy
The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract.
love-is self class
Self-love is a principle of action; but among no class of human beings has nature so profusely distributed this principle of life and action as through the whole sensitive family of genius.
care return quotations
The greater part of our writers, . . . have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them: and those who never quote in return are seldom quoted.
poetry soul poet
A poet is a painter of the soul.
happiness men literature
Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.