MiscellaniesCarey and Hart, 1842 - 308 страница |
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... society which are degenerate , degraded , and forlorn ; who held up to the contempt of the world meanness , falsehood , cruelty , and oppression , wherever found to exist ; who spread before us , on his pages , the lesson taught in the ...
... society which are degenerate , degraded , and forlorn ; who held up to the contempt of the world meanness , falsehood , cruelty , and oppression , wherever found to exist ; who spread before us , on his pages , the lesson taught in the ...
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... society rest . He does not paint a man as the most noble and generous of his race , and yet the seducer of the wife of his friend ; nor give attractive graces to the murderer ; nor describe an Eugene Aram as gifted with lofty genius ...
... society rest . He does not paint a man as the most noble and generous of his race , and yet the seducer of the wife of his friend ; nor give attractive graces to the murderer ; nor describe an Eugene Aram as gifted with lofty genius ...
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... society of heaven . They said Nell would be an angel before the birds sang again . The Spring arrived that beautiful and happy time - and the birds renewed their songs ; but , " She was dead . No sleep so beautiful and calm , so free ...
... society of heaven . They said Nell would be an angel before the birds sang again . The Spring arrived that beautiful and happy time - and the birds renewed their songs ; but , " She was dead . No sleep so beautiful and calm , so free ...
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... society since the days of Smollett and Fielding . " He makes men act as they appear in real life . He has no mock - heroics -no overstrained descriptions — no sickening sentimen- talities . Artificial manners are false manners . Sim ...
... society since the days of Smollett and Fielding . " He makes men act as they appear in real life . He has no mock - heroics -no overstrained descriptions — no sickening sentimen- talities . Artificial manners are false manners . Sim ...
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... society which are too humble to attract public attention ; but every subject which he touched , received importance and grace from his genius and delicate taste . The old houses , and streets , and book - stalls of London furnished ...
... society which are too humble to attract public attention ; but every subject which he touched , received importance and grace from his genius and delicate taste . The old houses , and streets , and book - stalls of London furnished ...
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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.