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... Thackeray 194 peace convention 19 Trent , W. P. Edward Eggleston ... 153 Royal Academy . 96 True doctrine ............ 433 Russell , S. B. Afternoon at the new Water Works 301 Sacred literature . 412 St. Louis Art Museum 108 St. Louis ...
... Thackeray 194 peace convention 19 Trent , W. P. Edward Eggleston ... 153 Royal Academy . 96 True doctrine ............ 433 Russell , S. B. Afternoon at the new Water Works 301 Sacred literature . 412 St. Louis Art Museum 108 St. Louis ...
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... Thackeray , and won their respect and friendship at last . He aimed high , according to his lights , meant well , and in the long run did well , too . Literature , first seriously cultivated as a means of livelihood , outlasted his poli ...
... Thackeray , and won their respect and friendship at last . He aimed high , according to his lights , meant well , and in the long run did well , too . Literature , first seriously cultivated as a means of livelihood , outlasted his poli ...
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... Thackeray , or Shelley , or Keats , or Poe , " What wonders they would have done had life been longer or fate kinder to them ! " of Bulwer we say : " No help was wanting to him , and he profited by all ; he got out of the egg more than ...
... Thackeray , or Shelley , or Keats , or Poe , " What wonders they would have done had life been longer or fate kinder to them ! " of Bulwer we say : " No help was wanting to him , and he profited by all ; he got out of the egg more than ...
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... Thackeray , Hawthorne , George Eliot and Dickens . He also insists that good fiction should be provided by the libraries . Most of the modern novels he calls " mainly trash , injurious alike to the mind and morals of the reader . " But ...
... Thackeray , Hawthorne , George Eliot and Dickens . He also insists that good fiction should be provided by the libraries . Most of the modern novels he calls " mainly trash , injurious alike to the mind and morals of the reader . " But ...
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... Thackeray , who had spent much time and wit in satirizing our sub- ject , produced in 1852 Henry Esmond , of which Mr. Saintsbury says : " In a certain way Esmond is the crown and flower of the historical novel ; the flaming limits of ...
... Thackeray , who had spent much time and wit in satirizing our sub- ject , produced in 1852 Henry Esmond , of which Mr. Saintsbury says : " In a certain way Esmond is the crown and flower of the historical novel ; the flaming limits of ...
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Página 319 - DAUGHTERS of Time, the hypocritic Days, Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes, And marching single in an endless file, Bring diadems and fagots in their hands. To each they offer gifts after his will, Bread, kingdoms, stars, and sky that holds them all.
Página 316 - THE sea is calm to-night. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits ; — on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.
Página 318 - OH MAY I JOIN THE CHOIR INVISIBLE." Longum illud tempus.quum non ero, magis me novel, quam hoc exiguum. Cicero, ad Alt., XIT., 18. Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence...
Página 183 - All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good shall exist; Not its semblance but itself; no beauty, nor good nor power Whose voice has gone forth, but each survives for the melodist When eternity affirms the conception of an hour. The high that proved too high, the heroic for earth too hard...
Página 353 - To sit the midst of Trinal Unity, He laid aside ; and here with us to be, Forsook the courts of everlasting day, And chose with us a darksome house of mortal clay.
Página 333 - By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps.
Página 93 - No matter how poor I am. No matter though the prosperous of my own time will not enter my obscure dwelling. If the Sacred Writers will enter and take...
Página 353 - Muse, shall not thy sacred vein Afford a present to the Infant God? Hast thou no verse, no hymn, or solemn strain, To welcome Him to this His new abode, Now while the Heaven, by the Sun's team untrod, Hath took no print of the approaching light, And all the spangled host keep watch in squadrons bright?
Página 319 - Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least ; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
Página 353 - THIS is the month, and this the happy morn Wherein the Son of Heaven's eternal King Of wedded maid and virgin mother born, Our great redemption from above did bring ; For so the holy sages once did sing That he our deadly forfeit should release, And with his Father work us a perpetual peace.