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... Collins , F. H. , Synthetic Philosophy . 49 Romance of the Wire . 281 Collins , W. , Blind Love .. 38 Electricity in Daily Life .. 367 Collins ( Wilkie ) Memorial , Lit. Misc . 221 Fiction , Lit. Misc .. 315 Come Forth , Ward .. 328 ...
... Collins , F. H. , Synthetic Philosophy . 49 Romance of the Wire . 281 Collins , W. , Blind Love .. 38 Electricity in Daily Life .. 367 Collins ( Wilkie ) Memorial , Lit. Misc . 221 Fiction , Lit. Misc .. 315 Come Forth , Ward .. 328 ...
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... Wilkie Collins . Swinburne . Fort . Review . ( Nov. ) Nathaniel P. Willis . Stoddard . Lippincott's . ( Jan. ) William Cullen Bryant in History . Mrs. Lamb . Mag . Amer . History . ( Jan. ) Uncle Tom's Cabin and Mrs. Stowe . F. T. ...
... Wilkie Collins . Swinburne . Fort . Review . ( Nov. ) Nathaniel P. Willis . Stoddard . Lippincott's . ( Jan. ) William Cullen Bryant in History . Mrs. Lamb . Mag . Amer . History . ( Jan. ) Uncle Tom's Cabin and Mrs. Stowe . F. T. ...
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... Wilkie Collins that he invites the critic to lay his finger on the spot where Wilkie Collins ' writing ends and his own begins . A reading of the book amply justi- fies Mr. Besant's fears ; the change from the hand of the master to that ...
... Wilkie Collins that he invites the critic to lay his finger on the spot where Wilkie Collins ' writing ends and his own begins . A reading of the book amply justi- fies Mr. Besant's fears ; the change from the hand of the master to that ...
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... COLLINS , WILKIE . Blind love : a novel ; with a preface by Walter Besant . Appleton . 12 ° ( Appleton's town and country lib . , no . 44. ) pap . , 50 c . EBERS . G. Joshua : a biblical picture . Author- ized ed . 12 ° J. W. Lovell ...
... COLLINS , WILKIE . Blind love : a novel ; with a preface by Walter Besant . Appleton . 12 ° ( Appleton's town and country lib . , no . 44. ) pap . , 50 c . EBERS . G. Joshua : a biblical picture . Author- ized ed . 12 ° J. W. Lovell ...
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... WILKIE COLLINS . He wove for us the subtlest plots , And oft with him our fancy strayed , Until there seemed a throbbing pulse In every pen - stroke that he made . And now his genial heart is still- The frost of silence films his pen ...
... WILKIE COLLINS . He wove for us the subtlest plots , And oft with him our fancy strayed , Until there seemed a throbbing pulse In every pen - stroke that he made . And now his genial heart is still- The frost of silence films his pen ...
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Page 43 - SUNSET and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put out to sea, But such a tide as moving seems asleep, Too full for sound and foam, When that which drew from out the boundless deep Turns again home. Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! 10 And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For tho...
Page 146 - Listen ! you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling, At their return, up the high strand, Begin, and cease, and then again begin, With tremulous cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in.
Page 146 - But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.
Page 146 - Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.
Page 146 - Sophocles long ago Heard it on the Aegean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of human misery; we Find also in the sound a thought, Hearing it by this distant northern sea.
Page 198 - Summer is coming, summer is coming. I know it, I know it, I know it. Light again, leaf again, life again, love again,
Page 270 - Lead, Kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom, Lead Thou me on! The night is dark, and I am far from home — Lead Thou me on! Keep Thou my feet; I do not ask to see The distant scene, — one step enough for me.
Page 31 - ALERTE': the Narrative of a Search for Treasure on the Desert Island of Trinidad. With 2 Maps and 23 Illustrations. Crown 8vo., y.
Page 68 - One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break. Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better. Sleep to wake.
Page 146 - 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.