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... interest to his character as an author , and a man . The annunciation that we might expect to see the writer who had contributed so much to our instruction and amusement ; who derived his beautiful creations from those conditions of ...
... interest to his character as an author , and a man . The annunciation that we might expect to see the writer who had contributed so much to our instruction and amusement ; who derived his beautiful creations from those conditions of ...
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... interest surpassing that which before had belonged to fabled castles ; our sympathies are en- listed in the fate of misery and guilt clothed in rags , and bowed down by wretchedness . He describes the sufferings and patient virtues of ...
... interest surpassing that which before had belonged to fabled castles ; our sympathies are en- listed in the fate of misery and guilt clothed in rags , and bowed down by wretchedness . He describes the sufferings and patient virtues of ...
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... interest , and the manifestation of his own true regard for his fellow- man . He has a deep and genuine love of the beauti- ful in man and in nature . Dr. Lever - author of Charles O'Malley - is thought by some readers to be superior to ...
... interest , and the manifestation of his own true regard for his fellow- man . He has a deep and genuine love of the beauti- ful in man and in nature . Dr. Lever - author of Charles O'Malley - is thought by some readers to be superior to ...
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... interest the public , in an equal de- gree ? If , from want of ability to continue to produce , or from satiety in his readers , he fail in his own pecu- liar species of composition , could he find , or create another road to popularity ...
... interest the public , in an equal de- gree ? If , from want of ability to continue to produce , or from satiety in his readers , he fail in his own pecu- liar species of composition , could he find , or create another road to popularity ...
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... interest in his poetry was maintained beyond half a score of years ; and when it began to manifest satiety , his Prose Romances appeared , and procured for their author the title of The Great Magician . When he wrote Waverly he was ...
... interest in his poetry was maintained beyond half a score of years ; and when it began to manifest satiety , his Prose Romances appeared , and procured for their author the title of The Great Magician . When he wrote Waverly he was ...
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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.