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Hugh Blair – angielski teoretyk i krytyk literatury.

✵ 7. Kwiecień 1718 – 27. Grudzień 1800
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Hugh Blair cytaty

„Czasy, które nazywamy barbarzyńskimi, są najbardziej korzystne dla ducha poetyckiego.”

Źródło: A Critical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian, the Son of Fingal (1763)

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“In the eye of that Supreme Being to whom our whole internal frame is uncovered, dispositions hold the place of actions.”

Źródło: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 420.

“Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. – In a world where everything is doubtful, and where we may be disappointed, and be blessed in disappointment, why this restless stir and commotion of mind? – Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events?”

Quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern, https://books.google.com/books?id=zlMxAAAAIAAJ ed. Tryon Edwards, F. B. Dickerson Company (1908), p. 23.

“Between levity and cheerfulness there is a wide distinction; and the mind which is most open to levity is frequently a stranger to cheerfulness.”

Reported in The Saturday Magazine‎ (September 28, 1833), p. 118 https://books.google.com/books?id=jh_nAAAAMAAJ&pg=118.

“The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.”

Źródło: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 386.

“Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. – In a world where everything is doubtful, and where we may be disappointed, and be blessed in disappointment, why this restless stir and commotion of mind?”

Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events?
Quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern, https://books.google.com/books?id=zlMxAAAAIAAJ ed. Tryon Edwards, F. B. Dickerson Company (1908), p. 23.