The Great English Novelists, Volum 2William James Dawson, Coningsby Dawson Harper & brothers, 1911 |
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Pàgina 9
... nature which occasionally pushes him into effeminacy . His call for tears is too con- stant . A manly reader may complain that the pathos of Paul Dombey's deathbed is overdone , and that little Joe's sufferings would be more moving if ...
... nature which occasionally pushes him into effeminacy . His call for tears is too con- stant . A manly reader may complain that the pathos of Paul Dombey's deathbed is overdone , and that little Joe's sufferings would be more moving if ...
Pàgina 17
... natural objects . In this she was not a discoverer , for Mrs. Radcliffe in her novels of terror had practised the ... Nature , which was in them ac- cidental , is with her essential . The tempestuous sky , the wild moors , the sombre ...
... natural objects . In this she was not a discoverer , for Mrs. Radcliffe in her novels of terror had practised the ... Nature , which was in them ac- cidental , is with her essential . The tempestuous sky , the wild moors , the sombre ...
Pàgina 18
... Nature . It is a reassertion of the subtle bond between man and the physical universe , hereafter to be yet more thoroughly illustrated in the relation of Marty South to the woodland , and of the various actors in " The Return of the ...
... Nature . It is a reassertion of the subtle bond between man and the physical universe , hereafter to be yet more thoroughly illustrated in the relation of Marty South to the woodland , and of the various actors in " The Return of the ...
Pàgina 21
... natures , touched with both the paganism and the austerity of Nature . Gabriel Oak , Michael Henchard , Giles Winter- bourne , are persons who belong to the humblest social order ; Hardy reveals them as capable of the agonies and ...
... natures , touched with both the paganism and the austerity of Nature . Gabriel Oak , Michael Henchard , Giles Winter- bourne , are persons who belong to the humblest social order ; Hardy reveals them as capable of the agonies and ...
Pàgina 23
... natural , for it has had the opportunity of profiting by both the errors and the triumphs of the great mas- ters . It has annexed new fields of observation , which is also natural in view of the constantly widening knowl- edge of the ...
... natural , for it has had the opportunity of profiting by both the errors and the triumphs of the great mas- ters . It has annexed new fields of observation , which is also natural in view of the constantly widening knowl- edge of the ...
Frases i termes més freqüents
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 149 - Tis finished already, said the Corporal, — for I could stay no longer; — so wished his Honour a good night. Young Le Fevre rose from off the bed, and saw me to the bottom of the stairs; and as we went down together, told me they had come from Ireland, and were on their route to join the regiment in Flanders. — But, alas ! said the Corporal, — the Lieutenant's last day's march is over ! Then what is to become of his poor boy ? cried my uncle Toby.
Pàgina 149 - said he, a second time, musing. ' Possibly he may my story,' added he. ' Pray, tell the captain, I was the ensign at Breda whose wife was most unfortunately killed with a musket-shot as she lay in my arms in my tent.
Pàgina 156 - He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
Pàgina 191 - ... deadly. At length he neared the wreck. He was so near, that with one more of his vigorous strokes he would be clinging to it, when a high, green, vast hillside of water, moving on shoreward, from beyond the ship, he seemed to leap up into it with a mighty bound, and the ship was gone...
Pàgina 135 - Call upon Me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver, and thou shalt glorify Me.
Pàgina 152 - Fever, said my uncle Toby, to my house, — and we'll send for a doctor to see what's the matter, — and we'll have an apothecary, — and the corporal shall be your nurse ; and I'll be your servant, Le Fever.
Pàgina 276 - My first most vivid and broad impression of the identity of things, seems to me to have been gained on a memorable raw afternoon toward evening. At such a time I found out for certain that this bleak place overgrown with nettles was the churchyard; and that Philip Pirrip, late of this parish and also Georgiana wife of the above...
Pàgina 132 - I went on, but terrified to the last degree : looking behind me at every two or three steps, mistaking every bush and tree, and fancying every stump at a distance to be a man. Nor is it possible to describe how many various shapes...
Pàgina 143 - Tis for a poor gentleman, I think, of the army, said the landlord, who has been taken ill at my house four days ago, and has never held up his head since, or had a desire to taste any thing, till just now, that he has a fancy for a glass of sack and a thin toast.
Pàgina 52 - You need be under no uneasiness," cried I, "about selling the rims, for they are not worth sixpence; for I perceive they are only copper varnished over.