Frases de Leslie Stephen

Leslie Stephen fue un biógrafo y alpinista inglés, editor del Oxford Dictionnary of National Biography y padre de la escritora Virginia Woolf. Wikipedia  

✵ 28. noviembre 1832 – 22. febrero 1904
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Leslie Stephen: Frases en inglés

“He who sees only what is before his eyes sees the worst part of every view.”

The Playground of Europe (1871; London: Longmans, Green, 1899) p. 131

“Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season.”

Leslie Stephen Studies of a Biographer

Studies of a Biographer: Second Series (London: Duckworth, 1902) vol. 3, p. 261

“The poet should touch our heart by showing his own”

Quote by Thomas Hardy from The life of Thomas Hardy 1840-1928 by Florence Emily Hardy ASIN: B0027MJJSI Macmillan (1 Jan 1962)
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“If you wish at once to do nothing and to be respectable now-a-days, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.”

Sketches from Cambridge http://books.google.com/books?id=mjA4AAAAMAAJ&q=%22If+you+wish+at+once+to+do+nothing+and+to+be+respectable+now-a-days+the+best+pretext+is+to+be+at%22+%22work+on+some+profound+study%22&pg=PA5#v=onepage (1865)

“A good talker, even more than a good orator, implies a good audience. Modern society is too vast and too restless to give a conversationalist a fair chance.”

Samuel Johnson (1878), repr. In John Morley (ed.) English Men of Letters (New York: Harper, 1894) vol. 6, p. 60