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... nature is not content with detecting foibles , nor his pen with pointing them out for derision ; his purpose is infinitely higher and nobler . The humour- ist must have emotions , nerves , sensibilities , and that marvellous sympathy ...
... nature is not content with detecting foibles , nor his pen with pointing them out for derision ; his purpose is infinitely higher and nobler . The humour- ist must have emotions , nerves , sensibilities , and that marvellous sympathy ...
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... nature which makes the whole world kin . ' Now the world may be regarded as being composed of three classes , viz . , those of us who laugh , those with whom we laugh , and those at whom we laugh ; and the tenderest solicitude is ...
... nature which makes the whole world kin . ' Now the world may be regarded as being composed of three classes , viz . , those of us who laugh , those with whom we laugh , and those at whom we laugh ; and the tenderest solicitude is ...
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... which no time could dim or obliterate . With this novel , then , so surprising in its frankness and in its knowledge of human nature , commenced a career which could know no repression . A mine of 12 POETS AND NOVELISTS .
... which no time could dim or obliterate . With this novel , then , so surprising in its frankness and in its knowledge of human nature , commenced a career which could know no repression . A mine of 12 POETS AND NOVELISTS .
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... nature had previously come from his pen , until the production of this book there was no evidence that Thackeray would ever assume the high position in letters now unanimously awarded to him . But here , 14 POETS AND NOVELISTS .
... nature had previously come from his pen , until the production of this book there was no evidence that Thackeray would ever assume the high position in letters now unanimously awarded to him . But here , 14 POETS AND NOVELISTS .
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... nature of such a man as Esmond was as a sealed book to her . His gravest feelings she treated with levity , and at length her con- duct with the Pretender broke the spell , and threw down from its lofty pedestal , once and for ever ...
... nature of such a man as Esmond was as a sealed book to her . His gravest feelings she treated with levity , and at length her con- duct with the Pretender broke the spell , and threw down from its lofty pedestal , once and for ever ...
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Page 99 - How do I love thee ? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
Page 368 - TO DAFFODILS FAIR Daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon : As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attained his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song ; And, having prayed together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring ; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing.
Page 41 - Kent. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
Page 370 - Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light: But, oh ! she dances such a way— No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight.
Page 231 - If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger: I should not seem a part of it.
Page 369 - Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee, The shooting stars attend thee, And the elves also, Whose little eyes glow Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee. No...
Page 102 - Get leave to work In this world — 'tis the best you get at all; For God, in cursing, gives us better gifts Than men in benediction. God says, "Sweat For foreheads," men say "crowns," and so we are crowned, Ay, gashed by some tormenting circle of steel Which snaps with a secret spring. Get work, get work; Be sure 'tis better than what you work to get.
Page 185 - Finding it so directly on the threshold of our narrative, which is now about to issue from that inauspicious portal, we could hardly do otherwise than pluck one of its flowers and present it to the reader. It may serve, let us hope, to symbolize some sweet moral blossom, that may be found along the track, or relieve the darkening close of a tale of human frailty and sorrow.
Page 237 - Earth and moon were gone And suns and universes ceased to be And thou wert left alone Every Existence would exist in thee...
Page 90 - And we think that, in some pause of angels' song, God may pluck them with the silence sweet to gather, And hold both within his right hand which is strong. 'Our Father!' If He heard us, He would surely (For they call Him good and mild) Answer, smiling down the steep world very purely, 'Come and rest with me, my child.
References to this book
Relative Creatures: Victorian Women in Society and the Novel, 1837-67 Françoise Basch No preview available - 1974 |