The Oxford SpectatorMacmillan and Company, 1869 - 183 pages |
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The Oxford Spectator. [Nov. 26, 1867-Dec. 8, 1868] Reginald Stephen Copleston No preview available - 2012 |
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Page 116 - With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank ; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
Page 116 - Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice...
Page 125 - There the ambassadors of great kings and commonwealths gazed with admiration on a spectacle which no other country in the world could present.
Page 148 - Be assured, Socrates, that when a man is nearly persuaded that he is going to die, he feels alarmed and concerned about things which never affected him before. Till then he has laughed at those stories about the departed, which tell us that he who has done wrong here must suffer for it in the other world; but now his mind is tormented with a fear that these stories may possibly be true.
Page 147 - ... them. But in my opinion, Socrates, these persons miss the true cause of their unhappiness. For if old age were the cause, the same discomforts would have been also felt by me, as an old man, and by every other person that has reached that period of life. But, as it is, I have before now met with several old men who expressed themselves...
Page 93 - When I look back to my own experience, I find one scene, of all Oxford, most deeply engraved upon 'the mindful tablets of my soul.' And yet not a scene, but a fairy compound of smell and sound, and sight and thought. The wonderful scent of the meadow air just above Iffley, on a hot May evening, and the gay colours of twenty boats along the shore, the poles all stretched out from the bank to set the boats clear, and the sonorous cries of 'ten seconds more,' all down from the green barge to the lasher.
Page 146 - Soon afterwards Polemarchus came up, with Adeimantus the brother of Glaucon, and Niceratus the son of Nicias, and a few other persons, apparently coming away from the procession. Polemarchus instantly began : " Socrates, if I am not deceived, you are taking your departure for the city." "You are not wrong in your conjecture," I replied. " Well, do you see what a large body we are ? "
Page 160 - ... want to buy. This demand, then, causes a class of retail dealers to spring up in our city. For do we not give the name of retail dealers to those who station themselves in the market, to minister to buying and selling, applying the term merchants to those who go about from city to city? Exactly so. In addition to these, I imagine, there is also another class of operatives, consisting of those whose mental qualifications do not recommend them as associates, but whose bodily strength is equal to...
Page 148 - I fancy, Cephalus, that people do not generally acquiesce in these views of yours, because they think that it is not your character but your great wealth that enables you to bear with old age. For the rich, it is said, have many consolations. " True," he said, " they will not believe me ; and they are partly right, though not so right as they suppose. There is great truth in the reply of Themistocles to the Seriphian, who tauntingly told him that his reputation was due not to himself but to his country.
Page 157 - It will owe its construction, it appears, to our natural wants. Unquestionably. Well, but the first and most pressing of all wants is that of sustenance to enable us to exist as living creatures. Most decidedly. Our second want would be that of a house, and our third that of clothing and the like. True. Then let us know what will render our city...