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... thousand . When the series was com- pleted , the circulation amounted to thirty thousand copies . Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby followed in rapid succession ; and when they were completed , Dickens - who had been a writer only five ...
... thousand . When the series was com- pleted , the circulation amounted to thirty thousand copies . Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby followed in rapid succession ; and when they were completed , Dickens - who had been a writer only five ...
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... thousand guineas . Goldsmith sold the Vicar of Wake- field for a few pounds . Dr. Johnson received two hundred guineas for the Lives of the Poets , and the bookseller made twenty - five thousand pounds sterling by the purchase ...
... thousand guineas . Goldsmith sold the Vicar of Wake- field for a few pounds . Dr. Johnson received two hundred guineas for the Lives of the Poets , and the bookseller made twenty - five thousand pounds sterling by the purchase ...
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... thousand books published annually in Great Britain , scarcely ten are 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 ...
... thousand books published annually in Great Britain , scarcely ten are 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 ...
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... thousand miles between us . Good is the will of the Lord , even if I see her no more . " These emotions were experienced at Cawnpore , far from the abode of civilized man , and amidst surround- ing paganism . His pure and gentle spirit ...
... thousand miles between us . Good is the will of the Lord , even if I see her no more . " These emotions were experienced at Cawnpore , far from the abode of civilized man , and amidst surround- ing paganism . His pure and gentle spirit ...
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... thousands of other forms and scenes have arisen before me since that lovely spirit passed away ; yet , memory calls him back to life , and he now stands before me , invested with almost living reality . That manly form , that cordial ...
... thousands of other forms and scenes have arisen before me since that lovely spirit passed away ; yet , memory calls him back to life , and he now stands before me , invested with almost living reality . That manly form , that cordial ...
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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.