John Stuart Blackie
John Stuart Blackie
Prof John Stuart Blackie FRSEwas a Scottish scholar and man of letters...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth28 July 1809
wise sweet art
Rocking on a lazy billow With roaming eyes, Cushioned on a dreamy pillow, Thou art now wise. Wake the power within thee slumbering, Trim the plot that's in thy keeping, Thou wilt bless the task when reaping Sweet labour's prize.
religious art men
The highest art is always the most religious; and the greatest artist is always a devout man. A scoffing Raphael or Michael Angelo is not conceivable.
bless plot power reaping task thee thou thy trim wake wilt
Wake the power within thee slumbering, trim the plot that's in thy keeping, thou wilt bless the task when reaping sweet labour's prize.
wise men water
The wise man of Miletus thus declared the first of things is water
men solitude loner
Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.
eye glasses shining
A fair face without a fair soul is like a glass eye that shines and sees nothing.
truth men use
All things to all men only fools will tell, Truth profits none but those that use it well.
drama heaven earth
Brahma is the great Creator, Life a mystic drama; Heaven, and Earth, and living Nature Are but masks of Brahma.
god law fairs
All powers, all laws, are but the fair Embodied thoughts of God.
law order existence
Order is the law of all intelligible existence.
plato simple order
Creation is the production of order. What a simple, but, at the same time, comprehensive and pregnant principle is here! Plato could tell his disciples no ultimate truth of more pervading significance. Order is the law of all intelligible existence.
wine water tea
Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.