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... Berlioz from The Scots Observer and The Saturday Review ; the Tennyson from The Scots Observer and The Magazine of Art ; the Homer and Theocritus from Vanity Fair and the defunct Teacher ; viii VIEWS AND REVIEWS the Hugo from The Athenæum ,
... Berlioz from The Scots Observer and The Saturday Review ; the Tennyson from The Scots Observer and The Magazine of Art ; the Homer and Theocritus from Vanity Fair and the defunct Teacher ; viii VIEWS AND REVIEWS the Hugo from The Athenæum ,
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William Ernest Henley, Robert Louis Stevenson. viii VIEWS AND REVIEWS the Hugo from The Athenæum , The Magazine of Art , and an unpublished fragment written for The Scottish Church . In all cases permission to reprint is hereby ...
William Ernest Henley, Robert Louis Stevenson. viii VIEWS AND REVIEWS the Hugo from The Athenæum , The Magazine of Art , and an unpublished fragment written for The Scottish Church . In all cases permission to reprint is hereby ...
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... : In Metre : The Fashion of Art . BYRON , Byron and the World : Byron and Wordsworth . HUGO , His Critics : Some Causes and Effects : Environ- ment : Equipment and Achievement : His Diary : For and Against : What Lives of Him .
... : In Metre : The Fashion of Art . BYRON , Byron and the World : Byron and Wordsworth . HUGO , His Critics : Some Causes and Effects : Environ- ment : Equipment and Achievement : His Diary : For and Against : What Lives of Him .
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... was out of love for his art and because his conscience as an artist would not let him do otherwise . We have been told so often to train ourselves by studying the practice of workmen like Gautier and Hugo and imitating the virtues DICKENS ...
... was out of love for his art and because his conscience as an artist would not let him do otherwise . We have been told so often to train ourselves by studying the practice of workmen like Gautier and Hugo and imitating the virtues DICKENS ...
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William Ernest Henley, Robert Louis Stevenson. of workmen like Gautier and Hugo and imitating the virtues of work like Hernani and Quatre - Vingt - Treize and l'Education Sentimentale - we have heard so much of the aesthetic ...
William Ernest Henley, Robert Louis Stevenson. of workmen like Gautier and Hugo and imitating the virtues of work like Hernani and Quatre - Vingt - Treize and l'Education Sentimentale - we have heard so much of the aesthetic ...
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achievement admirable adventure artist in words Balzac Barry Lyndon Berlioz Boswell brilliant Byron Champfleury character charm Clarissa comedy Congreve critics delightful Dickens Disraeli drama Dumas effect Egoist emotion enchanted English epic essay essayist essentials eternal Eugène Labiche expression fact faults fiction genius George Eliot George Meredith grace heart Heine Hernani hero heroic Homer Hugo human humour ideal imagination immortal inspiration instinct intellectual interest Jefferies kind Landor Lavengro less literary literature lived Macaulay manner master Matthew Arnold ment merely mind modern Molière moral natural ness never novelist novels passion Petrus Borel phrase play poet prose Revenger's Tragedy rhymes romance romanticism Sainte-Beuve sense sentiment Shakespeare song sort speech story style Taine Tennyson Thackeray Thackeray's Theocritus theory things tion Tolstoï touch true uttered Vanity Fair verse Victor Hugo VIEWS AND REVIEWS vigorous W. S. Gilbert writing wrote
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Página 183 - Tis dark: the iced gusts still rave and beat: "No dream, alas! alas! and woe is mine! "Porphyro will leave me here to fade and pine,— "Cruel!
Página 72 - The power of Byron's personality lies in " the splendid and imperishable excellence which covers all his offences and outweighs all his defects : the excellence of sincerity and strength.
Página 72 - When the year 1900 is turned, and our nation comes to recount her poetic glories in the century which has then just ended, the first names with her will be these.
Página 238 - Had his other friends been as diligent and ardent as I was, he might have been almost entirely preserved. As it is, I will venture to say that he will be seen in this work more completely than any man who has ever yet lived.
Página 184 - To yonder argent round; So shows my soul before the Lamb, My spirit before Thee; So in mine earthly house I am, To that I hope to be. Break up the heavens, O Lord! and far, Thro' all yon starlight keen, Draw me, thy bride, a glittering star, In raiment white and clean.
Página 103 - Hoder touch'd his arm. And as a spray of honeysuckle flowers Brushes across a tired traveller's face Who shuffles through the deep dew-moisten'd dust, On a May evening, in the darken'd lanes, And starts him, that he thinks a ghost went by — So Hoder...
Página 223 - Tis necessary Wolves should eat. If, mindful of the bleating weal, Thy bosom burn with real zeal, Hence, and thy tyrant lord beseech ; To him repeat the moving speech: A Wolf eats sheep but now and then, Ten thousands are devour'd by men. An open foe may prove a curse, But a pretended friend is worse.
Página 237 - It is related of the great Dr. Clarke, that when in one of his leisure hours he was unbending himself with a few friends in the most playful and frolicsome manner, he observed Beau Nash approaching, upon which he suddenly stopped: ' My boys (said he), let us be grave: here comes a fool.
Página 4 - It is in the laborious struggle to make this distinction, and in the determination to try for it, that the road to the correction of faults lies. [Perhaps I may remark, in support of the sincerity with which I write this, that I am an impatient and impulsive person myself, but that it has been for many years the constant effort of my life to practise at my desk what I preach to you.] I should not have written so much, or so plainly, but for your last letter to me.
Página 199 - I've met with many a breeze before, But never such a blow." Then reading on his 'bacco box, He heaved a bitter sigh, And then began to eye his pipe, And then to pipe his eye. And then he tried to sing "All's Well," But could not though he tried : His head was turned, and so he chewed His pigtail till he died.