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... less a book than a mosaic of scraps and shreds recovered from the shot rubbish of some fourteen years of journalism . Thus , the notes on Longfellow , Balzac , Sidney , Tourneur , Arabian Nights Entertainments , Borrow , George Eliot ...
... less a book than a mosaic of scraps and shreds recovered from the shot rubbish of some fourteen years of journalism . Thus , the notes on Longfellow , Balzac , Sidney , Tourneur , Arabian Nights Entertainments , Borrow , George Eliot ...
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... less deliberate and careful than development ; and so much he confesses when he describes himself as ' in the first stage of a new book , which consists in going round and round the idea , as you see a bird in his cage go about and ...
... less deliberate and careful than development ; and so much he confesses when he describes himself as ' in the first stage of a new book , which consists in going round and round the idea , as you see a bird in his cage go about and ...
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... less robust and less sincere . He began as a serious novelist with Ralph Nickleby and Lord Frederick Verisopht ; he went on to produce such masterpieces as Jonas Chuzzle- wit and Doubledick , and Eugene Wrayburn and the immortal Mrs ...
... less robust and less sincere . He began as a serious novelist with Ralph Nickleby and Lord Frederick Verisopht ; he went on to produce such masterpieces as Jonas Chuzzle- wit and Doubledick , and Eugene Wrayburn and the immortal Mrs ...
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... less magnificently creative than usefully and delightfully cynical , not less powerful and complete a painter of manners than infallible as a social philosopher and incom- parable as a lecturer on the human heart . They accept Amelia ...
... less magnificently creative than usefully and delightfully cynical , not less powerful and complete a painter of manners than infallible as a social philosopher and incom- parable as a lecturer on the human heart . They accept Amelia ...
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... less wisely than thoroughly , and would rather be damned with Thackeray than saved with any one else . THE HE position of them that wear their rue with a difference , and do not agree that all literature is contained in The Book of ...
... less wisely than thoroughly , and would rather be damned with Thackeray than saved with any one else . THE HE position of them that wear their rue with a difference , and do not agree that all literature is contained in The Book of ...
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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.