The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 6Leavitt, Trow, & Company, 1867 - American literature |
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... truth - necessary , indeed , to save her brother's life - a tricky expedient for raising interest which blemishes more than one of Mrs. Gaskell's works . We know how Sir Walter Scott dealt with a similar difficulty in " The Heart of Mid ...
... truth - necessary , indeed , to save her brother's life - a tricky expedient for raising interest which blemishes more than one of Mrs. Gaskell's works . We know how Sir Walter Scott dealt with a similar difficulty in " The Heart of Mid ...
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... truth with insinua- tions , where it was impossible to reveal the whole truth , is a matter for private rather than for critical opinion . In a literary point of view , we think the inter- est and reality of the life might have been ...
... truth with insinua- tions , where it was impossible to reveal the whole truth , is a matter for private rather than for critical opinion . In a literary point of view , we think the inter- est and reality of the life might have been ...
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... truth as she believed it , though not the real actual truth . ' I do care for him ; I think you have won the love of a prince amongst men . Why , I am proud to remember that he has been to me as a brother , and I love him as a sister ...
... truth as she believed it , though not the real actual truth . ' I do care for him ; I think you have won the love of a prince amongst men . Why , I am proud to remember that he has been to me as a brother , and I love him as a sister ...
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... truth is , that America is the most trying subject in the world for a pro- fessional litterateur to write about , es- pecially if he happens to be in the comic line of literary business . Paradoxical as the assertion may appear to the ...
... truth is , that America is the most trying subject in the world for a pro- fessional litterateur to write about , es- pecially if he happens to be in the comic line of literary business . Paradoxical as the assertion may appear to the ...
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... truth , and acted on it . There is something absolutely ludi- crous , if it were not a matter of grave import , in the conventional comic way of regarding all American subjects adopted by our literary men . Mr. Dickens , for instance ...
... truth , and acted on it . There is something absolutely ludi- crous , if it were not a matter of grave import , in the conventional comic way of regarding all American subjects adopted by our literary men . Mr. Dickens , for instance ...
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Page 93 - Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day; And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale!
Page 194 - All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom.
Page 412 - Like a tale of little meaning .though the words are strong; Chanted from an ill-used race of men that cleave the soil, Sow the seed, and reap the harvest with enduring toil, Storing yearly little dues of wheat, and wine and oil...
Page 265 - Then spoke King Arthur, breathing heavily: "What is it thou hast seen? or what hast heard?" And answer made the bold Sir Bedivere: "I heard the water lapping on the crag , And the long ripple washing in the reeds.
Page 2 - But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think...
Page 156 - I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome! those caves of ice! And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware!
Page 102 - Receive them free, and sell them by the weight; Bags of fiery opals, sapphires, amethysts, Jacinths, hard topaz, grass-green emeralds, Beauteous rubies, sparkling diamonds, And seld-seen costly stones of so great price, As one of them indifferently rated, And of a carat of this quantity, May serve, in peril of calamity, To ransom great kings from captivity...
Page 421 - Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
Page 104 - To lie in cold obstruction and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world: or to be worse than worst Of those that lawless and incertain thought Imagine howling: — 'tis too horrible! The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay...
Page 110 - Phlegra with the heroic race were joined That fought at Thebes and Ilium, on each side Mixed with auxiliar gods ; and what resounds In fable or romance of Uther's son Begirt with British and Armoric knights ; And all who since, baptized or infidel, Jousted in Aspramont, or Montalban, Damasco, or Marocco, or Trebisond, Or whom Biserta sent from Afric shore, When Charlemain with all his peerage fell By Fontarabia.