Littell's Living Age, Volume 16Living Age Company, Incorporated, 1848 - Literature |
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... manner of position — a fond , open , affectionate temper . For traditionary stories . There was a theatre at the more intellectual qualities , by which this temper , through the medium of authorship , was to become patent to the world ...
... manner of position — a fond , open , affectionate temper . For traditionary stories . There was a theatre at the more intellectual qualities , by which this temper , through the medium of authorship , was to become patent to the world ...
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... manner . We suppose the exigencies of the novel must excuse her ; it was necessary that her lover should be plunged in despair , and therefore she could not be permitted to behave as any other woman would have done in the same ...
... manner . We suppose the exigencies of the novel must excuse her ; it was necessary that her lover should be plunged in despair , and therefore she could not be permitted to behave as any other woman would have done in the same ...
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... manner which is tolerable in the clear - sighted man , There is a scene in the Autobiography very simi- who we know can rise nobly from it when he lar . He explains to some kind old dames , whom pleases , accords ill enough with the ...
... manner which is tolerable in the clear - sighted man , There is a scene in the Autobiography very simi- who we know can rise nobly from it when he lar . He explains to some kind old dames , whom pleases , accords ill enough with the ...
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... manner imaginable , taking all risks , and throwing herself into situations of which the result would be obvious anywhere but in the pages of an English novel . The French have no scruples on such subjects , and their candor leaves ...
... manner imaginable , taking all risks , and throwing herself into situations of which the result would be obvious anywhere but in the pages of an English novel . The French have no scruples on such subjects , and their candor leaves ...
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manners was effectively restored , and the nation had to thank the monarch for the example and for the restoration ... manner of the un- grateful George I. , they soon abandoned public life . Still it was difficult for so stirring a ...
manners was effectively restored , and the nation had to thank the monarch for the example and for the restoration ... manner of the un- grateful George I. , they soon abandoned public life . Still it was difficult for so stirring a ...
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Page 67 - A pardlike Spirit beautiful and swift — A Love in desolation masked; — a Power Girt round with weakness; — it can scarce uplift The weight of the superincumbent hour...
Page 276 - A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food, For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Page 281 - Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se quam quod ridiculos homines facit. "Exeat...
Page 4 - Piper, sit thee down and write In a book that all may read." So he vanished from my sight; And I plucked a hollow reed, And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear.
Page 66 - This poem was chiefly written upon the mountainous ruins of the Baths of Caracalla, among the flowery glades, and thickets of odoriferous blossoming trees, which are extended in ever winding labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air. The bright blue sky of Rome, and the effect of the vigorous awakening of spring in that divinest climate, and the new life with which it drenches the spirits even to intoxication, were the inspiration of this drama.
Page 4 - Pipe a song about a Lamb!' So I piped with merry cheer. 'Piper, pipe that song again;' So I piped: he wept to hear. 'Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe; Sing thy songs of happy cheer!
Page 100 - The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?
Page 66 - Prometheus is, as it were, the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual nature, impelled by the purest and the truest motives to the best and noblest ends.
Page 100 - It undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given something is taken.
Page 63 - It had been long abandoned, for its sides Gaped wide with many a rift, and its frail joints Swayed with the undulations of the tide. A restless impulse urged him to embark, And meet lone Death on the drear ocean's waste ; For well he knew that mighty Shadow loves The slimy caverns of the populous deep.