 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1884 - 488 Seiten
...that he cares for. " The sincerity and marrow of the man reaches to his sentences. I know not anywhere the book that seems less written. It is the language...and they would bleed ; they are vascular and alive. — " Montaigne talks with shrewdness, knows the world and books and himself, and uses the positive... | |
 | Joseph Neilson - 1884 - 560 Seiten
...doubt, he wrote below, " Ask Gifford." Emerson regarded Montaigne's choice with favor, as he says, " Cut these words and they would bleed ; they are vascular and alive." Of some of Milton's lines, Macaulay says, " Change the structure of the sentence, substitute one synonym... | |
 | George Spring Merriam - 1885 - 444 Seiten
...Emerson says of Montaigne's essays : " The sincerity and marrow of the man reaches to his sentences. Cut these words and they would bleed ; they are vascular and alive." I acknowledge warmly the generosity with which his family and his most intimate friends have placed... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne - 1887 - 588 Seiten
...reader's mind. . . . The sincerity and marrow of the man reaches to his sentences. I know not anywhere the book that seems less written. It is the language...and they would bleed ; they are vascular and alive. . . . There have been men with deeper insight; but, one would say, never a man with such abundance... | |
 | Addison Peale Russell - 1890 - 342 Seiten
...Emerson says : " The sincerity and marrow of the man reaches to his sentences. I know not anywhere the book that seems less written. It is the language...and they would bleed ; they are vascular and alive." PUBUC Examples without doubt may be cited SPEAKING. , . . , , ... , . of great writers who have been... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 590 Seiten
...that he cares for. "The sincerity and marrow of the man reaches to his sentences. I know not anywhere the book that seems less written. It is the language...and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive. . . . "Montaigne talks with shrewdness, knows the world and books and himself, and uses the positive... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 598 Seiten
...that he cares for. "The sincerity and marrow of the man reaches to his sentences. I know not anywhere the book that seems less written. It is the language...and they would bleed ; they are vascular and alive. . . . shrieks, or protests, or prays ; no weakness, no convulsion, DO superlative ; does not wish to... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 616 Seiten
...that he cares for. "The sincerity and marrow of the man reaches to his sentences. I know not anywhere the book that seems less written. It is the language...and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive. . . . "Montaigne talks with shrewdness, knows the world and books and himself, and uses the positive... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 608 Seiten
...that he cares for. "The sincerity and marrow of the man reaches to his sentences. I know not anywhere the book that seems less written. It is the language...and they would bleed ; they are vascular and alive. . . . "Montaigne talks with shrewdness, knows the world and books and himself, and uses the positive... | |
 | Robert Hoe, Oscar Albert Bierstadt - 1895 - 390 Seiten
...when he writes : " The sincerity and marrow of the man reaches to his sentences. I know not anywhere the book that seems less written. It is the language...and they would bleed ; they are vascular and alive." Of this living work, the "Essays of Michel Eyquem de Montaigne," here is the very first edition, printed... | |
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The sincerity and marrow of the man reaches to his sentences. I know not anywhere the book that seems less written. It is the language of conversation transferred to a book. Cut these words, and they would bleed ; they are vascular and alive. 
