 Ah, sir — a distinct universe walks about under your hat and under mine — all things in nature are different to each — the woman we look at has not the same features, the dish we eat from has not the same taste to the one and the other — you and...  The history of Pendennis - Seite 222von William Makepeace Thackeray - 1896Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Eliza Cook - 1850 - 432 Seiten
...nature are different to each — the woman ne look at has not the same feature« ; the dish we cat from has not the same taste to the one and the other; you and I are but a pair of infinite isolation!1, v,-ith some fellow-islands it little more or less near us. — Penilmnii. ELIZA COOK'S... | |
 | 1854 - 788 Seiten
...look »t ha» not the same features, the dish we eat from has not the same taste, to the one and to the other — you and I are but a pair of infinite isolations, with some fellow islands a little more or less near to us."* But different as are our senses, more widely different... | |
 | Frederick Swartz Jewell - 1867 - 276 Seiten
...and spread Into a liquid plain, there stood unmoved, Pure as the expanse of heaven.—Milton. 505. You and I are but a pair of infinite isolations, with some fellow-islands a little more or less wear to us.—Thackeray. 506. There is no wind but soweth seeds Of a more free and open life, Which... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1879 - 456 Seiten
...Mrs. Pendennis is disquieting herself about losing her son, and that anxious hold she has had of h'm, as long as he has remained in the mother's nest, whence...I are but a pair of infinite isolations, with some 161 fellow-islands a little more or less near to us. Let us return, however, to the solitary Smirke.... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1880 - 210 Seiten
...universe walks about under your hat and under mine—all things in nature are different to each—the woman we look at has not the same features, the dish...I are but a pair of infinite isolations, with some fellow islands a little more or less near to us.—Pendennis. THE PAGAN MYRTYRS. I wish Warrington... | |
 | St. George William J. Stock - 1882 - 268 Seiten
...we look at has not the same features, the dish we eat from has not the same taste to the one and to the other — you and I are but a pair of infinite...fellow-islands a little more or less near to us." And if even our outer perceptions are different, how much more idiosyncratic and incommunicable are... | |
 | R. M. Johnston - 1886 - 32 Seiten
...most affectionate, have least concern for us, and that all of us, husbands and wives, are but " pairs of infinite isolations, with some fellow-islands a little more or less near between us." Alas! there be some, too many, who thus outrage the holy estate of matrimony, and lose... | |
 | William Shepard Walsh - 1892 - 1114 Seiten
...— the woman we look at has not the same features, the dish we eat from has not the same taste to one and the other,— you and I are but a pair of...isolations, with some fellow-islands a little more ur less near to us. Keble says, with gentle pathos, — Why should we faint and fear to live alone,... | |
 | William Samuel Lilly - 1895 - 236 Seiten
...creature your wife is, and how absurdly you are infatuated about her — and, as for your wife — 0 philosophic reader, answer and say, — Do you tell...fellow-islands a little more or less near to us." The last sentence seems to me to bring out most powerfully a view of human personality which a metaphysician... | |
 | 1895 - 416 Seiten
...Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, yet you cannot play upon me. HAMLET ill. 2. A DISTINCT universe walks about under your hat and...some fellow-islands a little more or less near to us. THACKERAY. WHO order'd that their longing's fire Should be, as soon as kindled, cool'd ? Who renders... | |
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