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... literary tour de force , and that he should never have appeared to such advantage as when , in Esmond and in Barry Lyndon , he was writing up to a standard and upon a model not wholly of his own contrivance . They admit his claim to ...
... literary tour de force , and that he should never have appeared to such advantage as when , in Esmond and in Barry Lyndon , he was writing up to a standard and upon a model not wholly of his own contrivance . They admit his claim to ...
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... literary art . He may not have been a great man but assuredly he was a great writer ; he may have been a faulty novelist but assuredly he was a rare artist in words . Setting aside Cardinal New- man's , the style he wrote is certainly ...
... literary art . He may not have been a great man but assuredly he was a great writer ; he may have been a faulty novelist but assuredly he was a rare artist in words . Setting aside Cardinal New- man's , the style he wrote is certainly ...
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... it pleased such painful creatures as MM . Quérard and Eugène de Mirecourt , ' as it has since pleased Messrs . Hitchman and Fitzgerald to consider the second- and third- rate literary persons DUMAS, His Components : Himself: At Least.
... it pleased such painful creatures as MM . Quérard and Eugène de Mirecourt , ' as it has since pleased Messrs . Hitchman and Fitzgerald to consider the second- and third- rate literary persons DUMAS, His Components : Himself: At Least.
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... literary persons whom Dumas assimi- lated in such numbers as of greater interest and higher merit than Dumas . To them the jackals were far nobler than the lion , and they worked their hardest in the interest of the pack . It was their ...
... literary persons whom Dumas assimi- lated in such numbers as of greater interest and higher merit than Dumas . To them the jackals were far nobler than the lion , and they worked their hardest in the interest of the pack . It was their ...
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... literary forgeries have proved their cases . one and all ; the judges of matter have spoken , and so have the critics of style ; the distinguished author of Nana has taken us into his confidence on the subject ; we have heard from the ...
... literary forgeries have proved their cases . one and all ; the judges of matter have spoken , and so have the critics of style ; the distinguished author of Nana has taken us into his confidence on the subject ; we have heard from the ...
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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.