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Pagina 11
... cause of a kind of literary revolution , the creation of a new school , the stimulus to a new kind of in- tellectual life , more justice would infal- libly have been done to the exquisite simple background against which the hero ...
... cause of a kind of literary revolution , the creation of a new school , the stimulus to a new kind of in- tellectual life , more justice would infal- libly have been done to the exquisite simple background against which the hero ...
Pagina 18
... cause of such strange aberration . A small man who had been seized by such fantastic philosophies would either have concealed them sedulously , or would have been characterized , senza complimenti , as a fool . But it was part of the ...
... cause of such strange aberration . A small man who had been seized by such fantastic philosophies would either have concealed them sedulously , or would have been characterized , senza complimenti , as a fool . But it was part of the ...
Pagina 19
... cause of German unity in the Imperial Diet , have to contend at home with the unnat- ural combination of extreme Radicals and Ultra- montanes , who are united in favour of the " Particularist " policy which the war has left at a ...
... cause of German unity in the Imperial Diet , have to contend at home with the unnat- ural combination of extreme Radicals and Ultra- montanes , who are united in favour of the " Particularist " policy which the war has left at a ...
Pagina 30
... cause of be carefully watched . The shower of the comet's dissipation , it would seem to meteors ( should any occur ) will fall in admit of no possibility of question that such a direction that shooting - stars might the comet has been ...
... cause of be carefully watched . The shower of the comet's dissipation , it would seem to meteors ( should any occur ) will fall in admit of no possibility of question that such a direction that shooting - stars might the comet has been ...
Pagina 45
... cause , but neither inter- est nor inclination swayed the diplomatist Napoleon wrote thus : " If Talleyrand wishes the Empress to remain in Paris , it is to betray her beware of that man ! " Was this merely an ebullition of gall ? Was ...
... cause , but neither inter- est nor inclination swayed the diplomatist Napoleon wrote thus : " If Talleyrand wishes the Empress to remain in Paris , it is to betray her beware of that man ! " Was this merely an ebullition of gall ? Was ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 479 - kept them in doubt as to his real meaning. Elsie felt a touch of this childish doubt now ; so she said nothing. Presently he opened his Bible, and continued, slowly nodding his head, " Yes, the lilies of the field — they toil not, neither do they spin ; — yet Solomon in all his glory
Pagina 197 - can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, as is happily" (it must and shall be happily) " the case with my dear native land. It will be very long,
Pagina 144 - a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well-wadded with stupidity.
Pagina 93 - false, or unreal, sound to the ears of the mourners, I am convinced that the words of the American office in this place would meet a very general approval — " We give Thee hearty thanks for the good examples of all those Thy servant«, who, having finished their course in faith, do now
Pagina 359 - He is the ultimas Romanorum, the author of the Mysterious Mother, a tragedy of the highest order, and not a puling love-play. He is the father of the first romance and of the last tragedy in our language ; and surely worthy of a higher place than any living author, be he who he may.
Pagina 398 - contrivance, and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement in them of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.
Pagina 327 - pity that commonly more care is had, yea and that amongst very wise men, to find out rather a cunning man for their horse than a cunning man for their children. They say Nay in word, but they do so in deed. For to the one they
Pagina 144 - We do not expect people to be deeply moved by what is not unusual. That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind : and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we
Pagina 356 - soul-animating strains, alas ! too few," as Wordsworth estimated them. Miss Hannah More wondered that Milton could write " such poor sonnets." Johnson said, •• Milton, madam, was a genius that could cut a colossus from a rock, but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.
Pagina 360 - This will never do. . . . The case of Mr. Wordsworth, we presume, is now manifestly hopeless ; and we give him up as altogether incurable and beyond the power of criticism, ... a tissue of moral and devotional ravings,. . . ' strained raptures and fantastical sublimities ' — a puerile ambition of singularity engrafted on an unlucky predilection for truisms.