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... thought or word — there is not , in any page of his works , a passage which the most discreet mother would hesitate to place in the hands of a young daughter . In this respect he differs from Bulwer , whose powerful and imaginative mind ...
... thought or word — there is not , in any page of his works , a passage which the most discreet mother would hesitate to place in the hands of a young daughter . In this respect he differs from Bulwer , whose powerful and imaginative mind ...
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... thought by some readers to be superior to Dickens as a writer . He has a free , manly , dashing mode of sketching life , manners , and humor- ous incidents ; but for the attainment of a wide - spread popularity , it is one thing to ...
... thought by some readers to be superior to Dickens as a writer . He has a free , manly , dashing mode of sketching life , manners , and humor- ous incidents ; but for the attainment of a wide - spread popularity , it is one thing to ...
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... thought with inten- sity before they wrote . Such were the labour and en- thusiasm of Milton , that he refused to abandon one of his works , notwithstanding he was assured by his phy- sicians that its completion would produce a loss of ...
... thought with inten- sity before they wrote . Such were the labour and en- thusiasm of Milton , that he refused to abandon one of his works , notwithstanding he was assured by his phy- sicians that its completion would produce a loss of ...
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... thought . Their names and works are alike immortal . Dante says he is " growing grey " while writing the Divina Commedia ; but that work was not written for his own century . Montesquieu wrote an article , for his Esprit des Loix , on ...
... thought . Their names and works are alike immortal . Dante says he is " growing grey " while writing the Divina Commedia ; but that work was not written for his own century . Montesquieu wrote an article , for his Esprit des Loix , on ...
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... thought of after twenty years . Paradise Lost and Shakspeare's Plays are numbered among the ten : but Milton and the Avon bard were not easy and extempore writers . If a laborious writer should be asked why he composed with so much care ...
... thought of after twenty years . Paradise Lost and Shakspeare's Plays are numbered among the ten : but Milton and the Avon bard were not easy and extempore writers . If a laborious writer should be asked why he composed with so much care ...
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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.