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... called the father of the English Novel . He finds his heroes in the lanes and alleys of a great city ; the massive buildings which confine the victims of crime and misfortune , are invested with an interest surpassing that which before ...
... called the father of the English Novel . He finds his heroes in the lanes and alleys of a great city ; the massive buildings which confine the victims of crime and misfortune , are invested with an interest surpassing that which before ...
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... called Dickens the Hogarth of prose fiction ; the comparison between them failing in this , that the painter is often coarse , as will be recol- lected by those who have examined his Progresses : the writer is always delicate . His ...
... called Dickens the Hogarth of prose fiction ; the comparison between them failing in this , that the painter is often coarse , as will be recol- lected by those who have examined his Progresses : the writer is always delicate . His ...
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... called the last infirmity of noble minds . Christianity finds it in the heart of its votary , and does not extinguish , but sanctifies , this natural emotion . She teaches , Blessed are the poor in spirit ; and that no man , who ...
... called the last infirmity of noble minds . Christianity finds it in the heart of its votary , and does not extinguish , but sanctifies , this natural emotion . She teaches , Blessed are the poor in spirit ; and that no man , who ...
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... called my attention to the consideration of this subject . Brainerd , when at Yale College , made this note in his diary : " I grew more cold and dull in religion by means of my old temptation , viz . ambition in my studies . " Martyn ...
... called my attention to the consideration of this subject . Brainerd , when at Yale College , made this note in his diary : " I grew more cold and dull in religion by means of my old temptation , viz . ambition in my studies . " Martyn ...
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... called me brother . He was comparatively unknown to fame - having died in the early morning of life , and before he commenced to discharge the duties of the profession to which he had devoted his powers . Possessing a strong mind ...
... called me brother . He was comparatively unknown to fame - having died in the early morning of life , and before he commenced to discharge the duties of the profession to which he had devoted his powers . Possessing a strong mind ...
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Страница 62 - I sat in the orchard and thought with sweet comfort and peace of my God, in solitude my Company, my Friend, and Comforter. Oh ! when shall time give place to eternity ! When shall appear that new heaven and new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness...
Страница 47 - The truth is, the Characters of Shakspeare are so much the objects of meditation rather than of interest or curiosity as to their actions, that while we are reading any of his great criminal characters, — Macbeth, Richard, even lago, — we think not so much of the crimes which they commit, as of the ambition, the aspiring spirit, the intellectual activity, which prompts them to overleap those moral fences.
Страница 147 - Bible, to be followed, and as little altered as the original will permit. " 2. The names of the prophets and the holy writers, with the other names in the text, to be retained, as near as may be, accordingly as they are vulgarly used.
Страница 130 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
Страница 24 - She was dead. No sleep so beautiful and calm, so free from trace of pain, so fair to look upon. She seemed a creature fresh from the hand of God, and waiting for the breath of life — not one who had lived and suffered death.
Страница 48 - So to see Lear acted - to see an old man tottering about the stage with a walking-stick, turned out of doors by his daughters in a rainy night, has nothing in it but what is painful and disgusting.
Страница 189 - Thou art my father:" to the worm, "Thou art my mother, and my sister.
Страница 50 - Oh! my friend, I think sometimes, could I recall the days that are past, which among them should I choose? not those 'merrier days,' not the 'pleasant days of hope...
Страница 25 - When Death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the panting spirit free, a hundred virtues rise, in shapes of mercy, charity, and love, to walk the world, and bless it. Of every tear that sorrowing mortals shed on such green graves, some good is born, some gentler nature comes. In the Destroyer's steps there spring up bright creations that defy his power, and his dark path becomes a way of light to Heaven.
Страница 100 - I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.