Smart

“ If he hasn’t got spunk enough to get out of the nest himself, they’ll push him over, and then they’ll fly around him, and keep on talking and talking and saying how easy it is, and show him how. And then when he tries they praise him up, as if he was a perfect wonder, and he begins to think he’s pretty smart himself. ”

“ There are few episodes in our literary history more striking than that of ‘Kit Smart,’ the wretched bookseller's hack, with his mind thrown off its balance by poverty and drink, rising at the moment of his direst distress to the utterance of a strain of purest poetry.
The following is a list of Smart's works: 1. ‘Carmen Alex. Pope in S. Cæciliam Latine redditum,’ 1743, fol.; 1746. 2. ‘The Eternity of the Supreme Being,’ 1750, 4to. 3. ‘The Immensity of the Supreme Being,’ 1750, 4to. 4. ‘Solemn Dirge to the Memory of the Prince of Wales,’ 1751, 4to. 5. ”

“ How someday we might even get so smart we'll contact other intelligent races on other worlds. Yeah, we're smart. You know those star radiations?"
"That's not my specialty, you know," the Chief answered cautiously. ”

“ We talk about "smart" business men, "smart" professional men, and by the adjective we may mean men who, though "keen," are yet honourable in their methods; or we may mean men who are just as scrupulous as the law of the land or the arbitrary criterions of society oblige them to be. And young men feel the impress of this widely-shared sentiment in a way particularly vivid. ”

“ Men who could not altogether approve of him admitted that he was "smart," that he uttered a good many truths, half-truths they were, dressed up in specious falsehoods, all the more dangerous, since the world does pay homage to virtue and truth. ”

“ But somehow the notion of the existence of ‘A Smart Set’ or Society with a big S is so deep-rooted that it will be well to examine the evidence for its existence before labelling it ‘Bad Meat,’ to be destroyed by the Board of Moral Health. ”

“ You don't mind being thought pretty comfortably fixed, eh—all these properties put in your name? Don't do you any harm, and people around here think you're mighty smart. Your deeds from me are all recorded, eh? ”

“ But he remained assiduous in reading paragraphs about those who move in the world which is called smart, because he knew that other people liked to hear about it, and he continued to give the impression that he himself frequented exalted circles. ”

“ Such would be, as if a man possessing a curious and exquisite piece of mechanism were to direct the observers to remark the beauty of the material, the regularity of the movements, and the certainty of the results, and yet to forbid them to examine into the principle of construction and the mode of operation, on which those movements and that certainty depend. ”

“ He had fallen into the usual masculine blunder of mixing up smartness of intelligence with strength of character. ”

“ The young rhymester was very fond of a lady of about three times his own age who used to notice and caress him. A gentleman old enough to be her father to teaze the child would pretend to be in love with his favourite and threatened to take her for his wife — “You are too old,” said little Smart ”

“ Smart describes his Cat Jeoffrey as follows: "For he purrs in thankfulness? when God tells him he's good Cat". ↑ 7. "a good domestic friend" Karina Williamson thinks that this is presumable the conscience. She also notes that Abraham called his wife "my fair domestic friend" (Abimelech i. 64) ↑ 19-20. Karina Williamson notes that "wages of the day" are intended in merciful, not retributive, sense. ”

“ Notes
↑ As noted by Karina Williamson, the conception & images here are taken by Smart from St Paul's exhortation to the faithful in Eph. 6:10—18.↑ 8. For strength invincible is thine — see 1 Cor. 16:13.↑ 9—14. To be compared with "On the Goodness of the Supreme Being", 119—23. ”

“ To serve the Lord with all my heart;
15 To shun the wily lures of sin,
And claim the prize, or e're I start. [2]
Notes
The story of Hannah and the birth of her son Samuel (1 Sam. 1) , was favorite of Smart's (see "Jubilato Agno", B458 etc.) . ↑ 9—10. See 1 Sam. 2:11.↑ 16. And claim the prize, or e're I start. — "e're" printed as "ere" in ed. 1772 and 1786, and "before" in ed, 1772a. Cf. Phil. 3:14: "I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus". ”

“ This Day are published, PROPOSALS for Printing, by SUBSCRIPTION, A NEW TRANSLATION OF THE PSALMS of DAVID. To which will be added A SET OF HYMNS for the FASTS and FESTIVALS of the CHURCH of ENGLAND. By CHRISTOPHER SMART, A.M. PROPOSALS at large may be had, with a SPECIMEN of the Work, and SUBSCRIPTIONS are taken in, by the following Booksellers: Messrs. DODSLEY, Pall Mall; Mr. ROBSON, New Bond-street; Mr. PAYNE, at the Mews Gate; Mr. ”

“ Fables. The opening page from The Poems, of the Late Christopher Smart, volume II, 1791 Fables Contents: Fable I.The Wholesale Critic and Hop-Merchant 17??, publ. posth. 1791 Fable II.The English Bull Dog, Dutch Mastiff, and Quail 1755, publ. ”

“ Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge succeeded Newton. ↑ 106. Jobson: a country fellow, a lout.↑ 107. Hardwick: Philip Yorke, Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764) , was courted as a patron of learning and the arts.↑ 110. William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield (1705-93) was renowned for his oratory based on intensive study of classical models. Murray's wife Elizabeth Finch was the sister of Smart's patron, Duchess of Cleveland. ↑ 111. Henry Vane, 3rd Baron Barnard, Earl of Darlington (1705-58) was Smart's patron. ”

“ To suffer long and still be kind
10 In holy temperance of mind,
Rejoice that truth is on my side,
As free from envy as from pride.
Both tongues and prophecies shall cease,
And painful knowledge cede to peace;
15 And time and death o'er all prevail,
But Charity shall never fail. ”

“ James) , lines 44—45; as well as
"Good-nature's an Englishman's merit
A title all Britons desire;
But We claim the name and the spirit,
From the corner stone up to spire".
⁠— Smart's Song (A Mason is great and respected...) , lines 8-11. ↑ 6. pulchritude — handsomeness instead in the ed. 1772a. ↑ 14, 16. See Jesus' words in the "Sermon on the Mount": "whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain" Matthew 5:41. ”

“ Smart's revised version of the fable appears under the title The Buffoon and the Country Fellow in his translation of Phaedrus's Scurra and Rusticus.
Reviews:
↑ Well-known actors and performers of the London stage in the 1750s. (Karina Williamson's note) . ↑ 24. And so exact TOOK OFF a Pig, (Text 1752) . ↑ 56. Pshaw! Nonsense! Blockhead! Damn it! Off! (Text 1763) . Links on "books.google.co.uk" (1) on "books.google.co.uk" (2)
This work was published before January 1, 1928, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. ”

“ Cottrell, laughing, "not in the vein for society is a charming phrase. It embraces so much, and defines it so vaguely. Not in the vein for society may mean that we want our lunch; that some one we wanted to meet has not come; that we have fallen to the charge of the wrong person. I always feel that my being in the vein for society depends a good deal upon what the society consists of. Every now and then I get somebody to take down to dinner that makes me sigh for the Desert of Sahara. Now, I wonder what's wrong with you to-day?"
"Had too much of London, I fancy," replied Blanche, smiling. ”

“ CHAPTER IX. SATURDAY AT HURLINGHAM. Hurlingham in the merry month of June, just when the east winds have ceased to trouble; when the roses and strawberries are at their best; when the lamb is verging towards muttony, and the whitebait are growing up; when the leaves are yet young, and Epsom and Ascot either pleasant or grim memories of the past. Can anything be more delightful than Hurlingham on a fine Saturday afternoon? ”

“ Lady Mary was by no means gratified by this discovery. She foresaw that Lionel must necessarily be thrown much into the society of one whom, with all her prejudice, she could not but admit was a most attractive girl; and she reflected that young men at times discover that the little-thought-of playmates of their childhood have grown up wondrous fair to look upon. Blanche's curiosity, too, was also much exercised on this subject, and young ladies, in their own artless fashion, can cross-examine in such cases as adroitly as a Queen's Counsel. ”

“ Nothing can be more dreary than a gay party from which there is no escape when one's mind is out of tune for society of any description. The idea that for so many hours the conventional smile must be upon our brow, and the conventional nothings upon our lips, is depressing in the extreme. ”

“ Hail to the chearful rays of ruddy morn,
That paint the streaky East, and blithsome rouse
The birds, the cattle, and mankind from rest!
30 Hail to the freshness of the early breeze,
And Iris dancing on the new--fall'n dew! ”

“ And active idleness at best.”
1754 Notes Composed not latter than March 1754. First published: no information. Text: 1791.
↑ 15. assert: lay claim to.↑ 32. Fransis Hayman a painter, member of Royal Academy and friend of Smart provided illustrations for his Poems on Several Occasions (1752) .↑ 62. Gunter's line: the rule of proportion introduced by the mathematician Edmund Gunter.↑ 66. ”

“ It was a secret that had been penetrated by only a few of his intimates, but there was lurking in Pansey Cottrell a spirit of mischief that sometimes urged him to contravene the schemes of his associates. It was never from any feeling of malice, but from a sheer sense of fun. The present state of affairs, for instance, tickled him immensely. He knew that poor Lady Mary had resolutely made up her mind that the Grange party should have none of this ball, and equally did he foresee that there was every probability of both herself and all her guests being present at it. ”

“ Intelligence turns to whichever side the light comes from, adjusting itself, in discursive, often desultory fashion, to all manner of directions and distances, comparing and measuring with unabashed slovenliness, extracting the qualities which strike it and hastening on to connect them with something it was struck by before. Being thus rapidly responsive, Intelligence may often, I admit, seem on the pounce, and more so than politeness warrants. ”

“ The Intelligence whose future interests me is not the same thing as the Intelligentsia. Those of us who belong to that class presumably possess Intelligence, since we live, or try to live, by its exercise. But it is no monopoly of ours, nor do [4] we always employ it in the manner which answers to my meaning. For living on or by its employment may, as is often seen among men of science and philosophers, result in their capital of natural Intelligence being sunk in a few enterprises of especial value, leaving them, as in the notorious case of Dr. ”

“ Education will teach you, Bernard, what you ought to think about the things which must concern you—about your position, your duties, your feelings. At present you see but dimly into your heart and conscience. And I, who am accustomed to question myself on all subjects and to discipline my life, how can I take for master a man governed by instinct and guided by chance? ”

“ Pray Remember the POOR.
I just came by the prison door,
I gave a penny to the poor:
Papa did this good act approve,
And poor Mamma cry'd out for Love.
5 Whene'er the poor comes to my gate,
Relief I will communicate ”

“ The crystalline limpidity of his character, free from all conventions, prejudices, or personal color, gave a facility for study of the man, limited only by the range of vision of the student. How far my vision was competent for this study is not for me to decide; so far as it went I profited, and so far as my experience of men goes he is unique, not so much from intellectual power, for I should be indisposed to accept his as the mind of the greatest calibre among those I have known, but as one of absolute transparency of intellect, perfect receptivity, and devotion to the truth. ”

“ The promoters of the picnic themselves could not have prayed more fervently for fine weather than did Lady Mary and her daughter.
"Happy is the bride that the sun shines on," saith the proverb; but if it is vouchsafed one to command a fine day at will in the course of existence, it would be better to reserve that privilege not for one's wedding, but for our first important picnic. Lionel Beauchamp and his confrères were especially favoured. The day for their picnic was like unto that described by De Quincey, when "midsummer with all its banners was marching through the sky." ”

“ With large Constructiveness, Form and Size, will be highly capable of excelling in a mechanical profession. With large Secretiveness, can relate stories with great force. With large Secretiveness, Individuality, Eventuality, Language and Comparison, he will excel in description, and be capable of giving force and life to his ideas that will fasten them upon the recollection of his auditors. With Secretiveness and Firmness large, can restrain the expression of pain in the most heroic manner, and assume the appearance of perfect health. ”

“ To the Infinite Intelligence which knows all that is hidden in that darkness, and all that man will discover therein, how poor a thing is the telephone or phonograph, how insignificant are all his 'great discoveries'! This thought should imbue a man of science with humility rather than with pride. ”

“ No, her difference with Lionel Beauchamp was not to be passed over so lightly as all that. If he could refuse the slight request that she had made him, he could care very little about her. "As if any man, honestly in love, would hesitate to break a mere promise made to another woman!" And to the best of my belief, the majority of her sex would be quite of Blanche's opinion.
"He does not get up," thought Mrs. Wriothesley, as she drove home from Hurlingham. "Yes, Sylla, my dear, you have told me something to-day that I honestly don't believe you knew yourself before. ”

“ If you are out for intelligence, I know no one more interesting than a skilled mechanic of his hands; and if you are out for folly, a lord can provide you as well as a sweep. Knowledge, my cousin, and knowledge alone passes all distinctions—at least it is the one master-key in my opinion. ”