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... century . In consequence of the reputation he had ob- tained by these creations of his genius , Master Hum- phrey's Clock had a circulation much more numerous than any of his previous works . When I say that Dickens is , with two ...
... century . In consequence of the reputation he had ob- tained by these creations of his genius , Master Hum- phrey's Clock had a circulation much more numerous than any of his previous works . When I say that Dickens is , with two ...
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... century . His merits as a writer place his works among the standard productions of genius ; but will not allow us to assign them , apart from his subjects , as a reason for his extraordinary fame . This arises as much from the character ...
... century . His merits as a writer place his works among the standard productions of genius ; but will not allow us to assign them , apart from his subjects , as a reason for his extraordinary fame . This arises as much from the character ...
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... century may pass before a writer will appear to take the crown of Historical Romance from the head of the author of Waverly . Dickens entered on a field where the scythe of the reaper had not com- menced the harvest ; unless we consider ...
... century may pass before a writer will appear to take the crown of Historical Romance from the head of the author of Waverly . Dickens entered on a field where the scythe of the reaper had not com- menced the harvest ; unless we consider ...
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... century before the time of the Brothers Cheeryble . The reader will be pleased , for the honour of human nature , to learn from the author that they are not the creations of his own fancy ; but that they lived , and by 3 CHARLES DICKENS ...
... century before the time of the Brothers Cheeryble . The reader will be pleased , for the honour of human nature , to learn from the author that they are not the creations of his own fancy ; but that they lived , and by 3 CHARLES DICKENS ...
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... . Goldsmith was near his fortieth year when he published his most popular poems . Milton had passed his half century before he began the composition of Paradise Lost ; and * *** he completed it in seven years - a 28 CHARLES DICKENS .
... . Goldsmith was near his fortieth year when he published his most popular poems . Milton had passed his half century before he began the composition of Paradise Lost ; and * *** he completed it in seven years - a 28 CHARLES DICKENS .
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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.