The Twentieth Century, Volum 5Nineteenth Century and After, 1879 |
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Pàgina 25
... become us to make up our minds whether this coveted amusement is of its nature prone to do good or evil . There cannot be a doubt that the characters of those around us are formed very much on the lessons which are thus taught . Our ...
... become us to make up our minds whether this coveted amusement is of its nature prone to do good or evil . There cannot be a doubt that the characters of those around us are formed very much on the lessons which are thus taught . Our ...
Pàgina 27
... become so efficacious for good or evil , had done nothing but harm in the world . It would be useless , or even ungenerous now , to quote essayists , divines , and historians who have written of novelists as though the mere providing of ...
... become so efficacious for good or evil , had done nothing but harm in the world . It would be useless , or even ungenerous now , to quote essayists , divines , and historians who have written of novelists as though the mere providing of ...
Pàgina 30
... become popular again we doubt . Macaulay expressed an exaggerated praise for Clarissa , which brought forth new editions , -even an abridgment of the novel ; but the tone is too melancholy , and is played too exclusively on a single ...
... become popular again we doubt . Macaulay expressed an exaggerated praise for Clarissa , which brought forth new editions , -even an abridgment of the novel ; but the tone is too melancholy , and is played too exclusively on a single ...
Pàgina 37
... become acquainted , but he is one who cannot lie , who cannot do a mean thing , who can wear his gown as a bedesman in the Grey Friars Hospital , -for to that he comes , -with all the honour that can hang about a judge's ermine . Esmond ...
... become acquainted , but he is one who cannot lie , who cannot do a mean thing , who can wear his gown as a bedesman in the Grey Friars Hospital , -for to that he comes , -with all the honour that can hang about a judge's ermine . Esmond ...
Pàgina 38
... become the mistress of a king . It is a foul career , the reader will say ; and there may be some who would ask whether such is the picture which should be presented to the eyes of a young girl by those who are anxious , not only for ...
... become the mistress of a king . It is a foul career , the reader will say ; and there may be some who would ask whether such is the picture which should be presented to the eyes of a young girl by those who are anxious , not only for ...
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Pàgina 79 - The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Pàgina 558 - And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give the fifth part unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones. 25 And they said, Thou hast saved our lives : let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants.
Pàgina 257 - See what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury New lighted on a heaven-kissing hill...
Pàgina 726 - HIGH is our calling, Friend ! — Creative Art (Whether the instrument of words she use, Or pencil pregnant with ethereal hues,) Demands the service of a mind and heart, Though sensitive, yet, in their weakest part, Heroically fashioned — to infuse Faith in the whispers of the lonely Muse, While the whole world seems adverse to desert.
Pàgina 577 - Heat like the mouth of a hell, or a deluge of cataract skies, Stench of old offal decaying, and infinite torment of flies, Thoughts of the breezes of May blowing over an English field, Cholera, scurvy, and fever, the wound that would not be...
Pàgina 396 - Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
Pàgina 576 - Now double-charge it with grape! It is charged and we fire, and they run. Praise to our Indian brothers, and let the dark face have his due! Thanks to the kindly dark faces who fought with us, faithful and few...
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Pàgina 27 - I felt. that something might be attempted for my own country," of the same kind with that which Miss Edgeworth so fortunately achieved for Ireland— something which might introduce her natives to those of the sister kingdom, in a more favourable light than they had been placed hitherto, and tend to procure sympathy for their virtues and indulgence for their foibles.
Pàgina 726 - While the whole world seems adverse to desert. And, oh! when Nature sinks, as oft she may, Through long-lived pressure of obscure distress, Still to be strenuous for the bright reward, And in the soul admit of no decay, Brook no continuance of weak-mindedness— Great is the glory, for the strife is hard!