Knight's Penny Magazine, Volumes 1-2Charles Knight, 1846 |
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Pagina 25
... given in such a manner as to transform the most agreeable beauty into the most odious monster . " In this low style of art the English carica- tures of the early part of the seventeenth century are simply disgusting . They possess no ...
... given in such a manner as to transform the most agreeable beauty into the most odious monster . " In this low style of art the English carica- tures of the early part of the seventeenth century are simply disgusting . They possess no ...
Pagina 30
... given to rail at , and even unduly to cry down his adversary . Always ready to censure what was amiss in state , or church , or public manners , he was not inclined to allow others to do so too . He was a patriot after the old fashion ...
... given to rail at , and even unduly to cry down his adversary . Always ready to censure what was amiss in state , or church , or public manners , he was not inclined to allow others to do so too . He was a patriot after the old fashion ...
Pagina 34
... given to the young Klaus on his setting out on his travels , the point being somewhat burned , because the baker had occasion- ally used it to stir the coals in his oven . So much the more was he praised by the people , and they were ...
... given to the young Klaus on his setting out on his travels , the point being somewhat burned , because the baker had occasion- ally used it to stir the coals in his oven . So much the more was he praised by the people , and they were ...
Pagina 35
... given other names to the boys . Now it happened that another son was born , and this one Peter violently insisted on having called Klaus . Margaret contended against this , for she and the rest of the family desired its name to be John ...
... given other names to the boys . Now it happened that another son was born , and this one Peter violently insisted on having called Klaus . Margaret contended against this , for she and the rest of the family desired its name to be John ...
Pagina 38
... than his mother had ever given him , and this pleased him ex- ceedingly ; but he felt hungry , and that pleased him not . It then began to grow lighter , and he thought and considered of what had 38 KLAUS AVENSTAKEN .
... than his mother had ever given him , and this pleased him ex- ceedingly ; but he felt hungry , and that pleased him not . It then began to grow lighter , and he thought and considered of what had 38 KLAUS AVENSTAKEN .
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Pagina 226 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Pagina 92 - I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of God upon these barbarous wretches, who have imbrued their hands in so much innocent blood ; and that it will tend to prevent the effusion of blood for the future. Which are the satisfactory grounds to such actions, which otherwise cannot but work remorse and regret.
Pagina 254 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. "But not the praise...
Pagina 224 - When you kissed your lily hands to your lemans today; And to-morrow shall the fox, from her chambers in the rocks, Lead forth her tawny cubs to howl above the prey. Where be your tongues that late...
Pagina 249 - Whep he saw a gasping knight lie there, With a gash beneath his clotted hair, And a hump upon his shoulder. And the loyal churchman strove in vain . To mutter a Pater...
Pagina 19 - I judge this to be true, and utter it with heaviness, — that neither the Britons under the Romans and Saxons, nor yet the English people under the Danes and Normans, had ever such damage of their learned monuments, as we have seen in our time. Our posterity may well curse this wicked fact of our age, this unreasonable spoil of England's most noble antiquities."* 4.
Pagina 206 - O Printing! how hast thou disturbed the peace of mankind! That lead, when moulded into bullets, is not so mortal, as when founded into letters. There was a mistake, sure, in the story of Cadmus; and the serpent's teeth, which he sowed, were nothing else but the letters which he invented.
Pagina 225 - Some books also may be read by deputy and extracts made of them by others but that would be only in the less important arguments and the meaner sort of books else distilled books are like common distilled waters flashy things.
Pagina 249 - And the Priest was ready to vomit, When he hauled out a gentleman, fine and fat, With a belly as big as a brimming vat, And a nose as red as a comet. " A capital stew," the Fisherman said,
Pagina 83 - Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul!