Letters to Dead AuthorsLongmans, Green, 1892 - 194 страница Collection of essays. |
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... give immortality to an author , even had he little to say . But you , with your whole wide world of fops and fools , of good women and brave men , of honest absurdities and cheery adventurers : you who created the Steynes and Newcomes ...
... give immortality to an author , even had he little to say . But you , with your whole wide world of fops and fools , of good women and brave men , of honest absurdities and cheery adventurers : you who created the Steynes and Newcomes ...
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... give people nick- names derived from their teeth , or their com- plexion ; and , generally , we are spared second- hand copies of all that in your style was least to be commended . But , though improved by lapse of time in this respect ...
... give people nick- names derived from their teeth , or their com- plexion ; and , generally , we are spared second- hand copies of all that in your style was least to be commended . But , though improved by lapse of time in this respect ...
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... give a single dam , wrote the astonishing child who diverted the leisure of Scott . Over your Little Nell and your Little Dombey I remain more than usual calm ; and probably so do thousands of your most sincere admirers . But about ...
... give a single dam , wrote the astonishing child who diverted the leisure of Scott . Over your Little Nell and your Little Dombey I remain more than usual calm ; and probably so do thousands of your most sincere admirers . But about ...
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... give thee sixty crowns to buy wood withal , and make thee a bright fire in winter weather , and comfort thine old age with thy friend Gallan- dius . And if Buon will not pay , then to try the other booksellers , " that wish to take ...
... give thee sixty crowns to buy wood withal , and make thee a bright fire in winter weather , and comfort thine old age with thy friend Gallan- dius . And if Buon will not pay , then to try the other booksellers , " that wish to take ...
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... give thee benefices , and many priories , and call thee his father in Apollo , and even , so they say , bid thee sit down beside him on his throne ? Away , ye scandalous folk , who tell us that there was strife between the Prince of ...
... give thee benefices , and many priories , and call thee his father in Apollo , and even , so they say , bid thee sit down beside him on his throne ? Away , ye scandalous folk , who tell us that there was strife between the Prince of ...
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admiration Alemanni Alexandre Dumas ANDREW LANG angler bad poets Bibline wine blessed Boileau Brother John burn Byron called Cask of Amontillado Chapelain clepen Coqcigrues cried critic D'Artagnan DEAD AUTHORS didst thou dread drink dwell Edgar Allan Poe England Englishmen evil fair farewell Father fortunate Franck Françoys Rabelais friends Galashiels genius Gods happy hath heart HERMES Herodotus heroines Homer honour Horace human humour immortal John Chalkhill knew ladies land laugh laurel learned LETTERS TO DEAD literary live Lond of Egypt Lucian matter methinks Molière Muscovy Muses never Pantagruel Panurge passions poet poetry Pope popular Porthos praise priest prose Pucelle Puimorin Rabelais racter Ronsard Rose satire Shelley sing song Sophocles speak sweet taste tell thee Theocritus Théophile Gautier thine things thou didst Thou wert thou wouldst Thresoure trout verse wandering waters write Ynde
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Страница 114 - What though the music of thy rustic flute Kept not for long its happy, country tone ; Lost it too soon, and learnt a stormy note Of men contention-tost, of men who groan, Which task'd thy pipe too sore, and tired thy throat — It fail'd, and thou wast mute ! Yet hadst thou alway visions of our light...
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Страница 6 - And the past and its dear histories, and youth and its hopes and passions, and tones and looks forever echoing in the heart, and present in the memory — these, no doubt, poor Clive saw and heard as he looked across the great gulf of time, and parting and grief, and beheld the woman he had loved for many years.
Страница 70 - Jane and Elizabeth attempted to explain to her the nature of an entail. They had often attempted it before, but it was a subject on which Mrs Bennet was beyond the reach of reason; and she continued to rail bitterly against the cruelty of settling an estate away from a family of five daughters, in favour of a man whom nobody cared anything about. 'It certainly is a most iniquitous affair,' said Mr Bennet, 'and nothing can clear Mr Collins from the guilt of inheriting Longbourn.