The Living Age, Том 295Living Age Company, 1917 |
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... true speech . Those traces of bitterness which occasionally disturb us in her novels appear again here . " Only think of Mrs. Holder being dead ! Poor woman , she has done the only thing in the world she could possibly do to make one ...
... true speech . Those traces of bitterness which occasionally disturb us in her novels appear again here . " Only think of Mrs. Holder being dead ! Poor woman , she has done the only thing in the world she could possibly do to make one ...
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... true love which is all - powerful can spring from " the cold fountain of gratitude no less than from the volcano of passion . " Jane Austen's lovers are remarkably free from passion . After Pride and Prejudice , in popu- lar estimation ...
... true love which is all - powerful can spring from " the cold fountain of gratitude no less than from the volcano of passion . " Jane Austen's lovers are remarkably free from passion . After Pride and Prejudice , in popu- lar estimation ...
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... character stands out like a cameo , every sentence was true to the ordinary speech of her day , and yet possesses that unfathom- able universal quality which makes it ring as fresh and The Centenary of Jane Austen . 17.
... character stands out like a cameo , every sentence was true to the ordinary speech of her day , and yet possesses that unfathom- able universal quality which makes it ring as fresh and The Centenary of Jane Austen . 17.
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... true after a The Fortnightly Review . hundred years as it did on the day when it was first written . S. P. B. Mais . CHAPTER VI . When the mosaic of daily life is in the making , the pattern is not ap- parent . It is afterwards that ...
... true after a The Fortnightly Review . hundred years as it did on the day when it was first written . S. P. B. Mais . CHAPTER VI . When the mosaic of daily life is in the making , the pattern is not ap- parent . It is afterwards that ...
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... true and I said so . She told me then how that silly affair of our missing the train after the picnic had got about the town , and that it was exaggerated , that some beast said we didn't turn up till next morning . " Christina looked ...
... true and I said so . She told me then how that silly affair of our missing the train after the picnic had got about the town , and that it was exaggerated , that some beast said we didn't turn up till next morning . " Christina looked ...
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Страница 4 - It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
Страница 654 - Wedding-Guest! this soul hath been Alone on a wide wide sea: So lonely, 'twas, that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.
Страница 648 - ANOTHER year ! — another deadly blow ! Another mighty Empire overthrown ! And We are left, or shall be left, alone ; The last that dare to struggle with the Foe. 'Tis well ! from this day forward we shall know That in ourselves our safety must be sought ; That by our own right hands it must be wrought ; That we must stand unpropped, or be laid low.
Страница 486 - Nor thro' the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun: If e'er when faith had fall'n' asleep, I heard a voice, "Believe no more," And heard an ever-breaking shore That tumbled in the Godless deep; A warmth within the breast would melt The freezing reason's colder part, And like a man in wrath the heart Stood up and answered, "I have felt.
Страница 59 - To such a task we can dedicate our lives and our fortunes, everything that we are and everything that we have, with the pride of those who know that the day has come when America is privileged to spend her blood and her might for the principles that gave her birth and happiness and the peace which she has treasured.
Страница 60 - Let me suggest also that every one who creates or cultivates a garden helps and helps greatly to solve the problem of the feeding of the nations and that every housewife who practices strict economy puts herself in the ranks of those who serve the nation. This is the time for America to correct her unpardonable fault of wastefulness and extravagance.
Страница 108 - We cannot take the word of the present rulers of Germany as a guarantee of anything that is to endure, unless explicitly supported by such conclusive evidence of the will and purpose of the German people themselves as the other peoples of the world would be justified in accepting.
Страница 15 - ... all our reasonings concerning causes and effects, are derived, from nothing but custom; and that belief is more properly an act of the sensitive, than of the cogitative part of 'our natures.
Страница 59 - But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts, for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.
Страница ix - Oh! it is only a novel!" replies the young lady; while she lays down her book with affected indifference, or momentary shame. - "It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda;" or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.