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... never to attempt anything that she could not achieve . - GEORGE SAINTSBURY : The English Novel , page 194 . Allmers , Mr. and Mrs. , the chief characters in Henrik Ibsen's drama , Little Eyolf ( 1894 ) . He is engaged in writing a book ...
... never to attempt anything that she could not achieve . - GEORGE SAINTSBURY : The English Novel , page 194 . Allmers , Mr. and Mrs. , the chief characters in Henrik Ibsen's drama , Little Eyolf ( 1894 ) . He is engaged in writing a book ...
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... never been so fully opened in literature . There had been girls and girls , but none in whom the traits and actions of the girls familiar to their fathers , brothers and lovers were so fully recognized ; and the contemporaneity ...
... never been so fully opened in literature . There had been girls and girls , but none in whom the traits and actions of the girls familiar to their fathers , brothers and lovers were so fully recognized ; and the contemporaneity ...
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... never proceeding for long without some harking back to the refrain of the original song : Now isn't it hard upon Billy Barlow . O dear ragged - y O , Now isn't it hard upon Billy Barlow . Barlow , Mr. , in Thomas Day's juvenile story ...
... never proceeding for long without some harking back to the refrain of the original song : Now isn't it hard upon Billy Barlow . O dear ragged - y O , Now isn't it hard upon Billy Barlow . Barlow , Mr. , in Thomas Day's juvenile story ...
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... never was a pleasanter pic- ture of health and good - humor . " Baynes , General Charles , in Thack- eray's novel Philip , father to Char- lotte , a brave man in action , but timorous and weak in common life , especially in presence of ...
... never was a pleasanter pic- ture of health and good - humor . " Baynes , General Charles , in Thack- eray's novel Philip , father to Char- lotte , a brave man in action , but timorous and weak in common life , especially in presence of ...
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... never be interesting to men - the capacity to be tempted . - HENRY JAMES , Views and Re- views , p . 20 . Beefington , Milor , in Canning's burlesque , The Rovers , or the Double Arrangement , first published in the Anti - Jacobin . An ...
... never be interesting to men - the capacity to be tempted . - HENRY JAMES , Views and Re- views , p . 20 . Beefington , Milor , in Canning's burlesque , The Rovers , or the Double Arrangement , first published in the Anti - Jacobin . An ...
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Page 202 - Oh, better that her shattered hulk Should sink beneath the wave; Her thunders shook the mighty deep, And there should be her grave; Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the god of storms, The lightning and the gale!
Page 12 - IN Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round : And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots...
Page 31 - For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Chuck him out, the brute!' But it's "Saviour of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot; An' it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' anything you please; An' Tommy ain'ta bloomin' fool — you bet that Tommy sees!
Page 362 - From that chamber and from that mansion I fled aghast. The storm was still abroad in all its wrath as I found myself crossing the old causeway. Suddenly there shot along the path a wild light, and I turned to see whence a gleam so unusual could have issued; for the vast house and its shadows were alone...
Page 104 - The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his person. He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together.
Page 325 - The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. He carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dogdays; and didn't thaw it one degree at Christmas.
Page 170 - ... the History of Little Goody Two Shoes, otherwise Mrs. Margery Two Shoes ; with the means by which she acquired learning and wisdom, and, in consequence thereof, her estate ; set forth at large for the benefit of those " Who, from a state of rags and care, And having shoes but half a pair, Their fortune and their fame should fix, And gallop in a coach and six.
Page 170 - THOMAS GRADGRIND, sir. A man of realities. A man of facts and calculations. A man who proceeds upon the principle that two and two are four, and nothing over, and who is not to be talked into allowing for anything over.
Page 362 - It was the work of the rushing gust — but then without those doors there did stand the lofty and enshrouded figure of the lady Madeline of Usher. There was blood upon her white robes, and the evidence of some bitter struggle upon every portion of her emaciated frame. For a moment she remained trembling and reeling to and fro upon the threshold — then, with a low moaning cry, fell heavily inward upon the person of her brother, and in her violent and now final death-agonies, bore him to the floor...
Page 56 - Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch The other turns to a mirth-moving jest, Which his fair tongue, conceit's expositor, Delivers in such apt and gracious words That aged ears play truant at his tales And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.