The Twentieth Century, Volum 5Nineteenth Century and After, 1879 |
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Pàgina 9
... probably be glad to have the barriers removed ; but not so their jailors . Bluebeard would be slow to give up the key of his harem . But now let us turn to a quarter where the difficulties are less stubborn . Supposing all to be right ...
... probably be glad to have the barriers removed ; but not so their jailors . Bluebeard would be slow to give up the key of his harem . But now let us turn to a quarter where the difficulties are less stubborn . Supposing all to be right ...
Pàgina 25
... probably from times much antecedent to the Greek dramatists , in order that the violence of the active may be controlled by the prudence of the inactive , and the thoughtlessness of the young by the thoughtfulness of the old . And ...
... probably from times much antecedent to the Greek dramatists , in order that the violence of the active may be controlled by the prudence of the inactive , and the thoughtlessness of the young by the thoughtfulness of the old . And ...
Pàgina 30
... probably each of them felt that the aim he had in view was to satirise vice . Defoe might have said the same . But when the satirist lingers lovingly over the vice which he castigates so as to allure by his descriptions , it may be ...
... probably each of them felt that the aim he had in view was to satirise vice . Defoe might have said the same . But when the satirist lingers lovingly over the vice which he castigates so as to allure by his descriptions , it may be ...
Pàgina 31
... probably no recog- nised attempt on the part of the novelist himself , except by Richard- son , and perhaps by Miss Burney , to teach any lesson , to give out any code of morals , to preach as it were a sermon from his pulpit , as the ...
... probably no recog- nised attempt on the part of the novelist himself , except by Richard- son , and perhaps by Miss Burney , to teach any lesson , to give out any code of morals , to preach as it were a sermon from his pulpit , as the ...
Pàgina 34
... probably but few readers have so believed in Pickwick as to think that nature would produce such a man , still they have been unconsciously taught the sweetness of human love . Such characters as those of Lord Frederick Veresopht and ...
... probably but few readers have so believed in Pickwick as to think that nature would produce such a man , still they have been unconsciously taught the sweetness of human love . Such characters as those of Lord Frederick Veresopht and ...
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Passatges populars
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!