What philosopher of the schoolroom, with the mental dowry of four summers, ever questions the power of the wand that opened the… — Robert Aris Willmott Beautiful Copy Share Image
Art, not less eloquently than literature, teaches her children to venerate the single eye. Remember Matsys. His representations of miser-life are breathing.… — Robert Aris Willmott Altars Copy Share Image
A cultivated reader of history is domesticated in all families; he dines with Pericles, and sups with Titian. — Robert Aris Willmott Books Copy Share Image
One interesting feature of criticism is seen in the ease with which it discovers what Addison called the specific quality of an… — Robert Aris Willmott Analysis Copy Share Image
Association is the delight of the heart, not less than of poetry. Alison observes that an autumn sunset, with its crimson clouds,… — Robert Aris Willmott Association Copy Share Image
Books, of which the principles are diseased or deformed, must be kept on the shelf of the scholar, as the man of… — Robert Aris Willmott Acknowledge Copy Share Image
Poetry deserves the honor it obtains as the eldest offspring of literature, and the fairest. It is the fruitfulness of many plants… — Robert Aris Willmott Beauty Copy Share Image
The amplest knowledge has the largest faith. Ignorance is always incredulous. Tell an English cottager that the belfries of Swedish churches are… — Robert Aris Willmott Church Copy Share Image
The fame of a battlefield grows with its years; Napoleon storming the Bridge of Lodi, and Wellington surveying the towers of Salamanca,… — Robert Aris Willmott Army Copy Share Image
Criticism must never be sharpened into anatomy. The delicate veins of fancy may be traced, and the rich blood that gives bloom… — Robert Aris Willmott Anatomy Copy Share Image
History presents the pleasantest features of poetry and fiction,--the majesty of the epic, the moving accidents of the drama, the surprises and… — Robert Aris Willmott Accidents Copy Share Image
Philosophical studies are beset by one peril, a person easily brings himself to think that he thinks; and a smattering of science… — Robert Aris Willmott Children Copy Share Image
History is a great painter, with the world for canvas, and life for a figure. It exhibits man in his pride, and… — Robert Aris Willmott Affair Copy Share Image
It is only dislocated minds whose movements are spasmodic. — Robert Aris Willmott Firmness Copy Share Image
Newton found that a star, examined through a glass tarnished by smoke, was diminished into a speck of light. But no smoke… — Robert Aris Willmott Astronomy Copy Share Image
Joy and grief are never far apart. In the same street the shutters of one house are closed, while the curtains of… — Robert Aris Willmott Church Copy Share Image
How deep is the magic of sound may be learned by breaking some sweet verses into prose. The operation has been compared… — Robert Aris Willmott Dew Copy Share Image
A discursive student is almost certain to fall into bad company. Ten minutes with a French novel or a German rationalist have… — Robert Aris Willmott Bad company Copy Share Image
Occasionally a single anecdote opens a character; biography has its comparative anatomy, and a saying or a sentiment enables the skilful hand… — Robert Aris Willmott Anatomy Copy Share Image
