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... things and revivifies them with its generous warmth and geniality . Wit engages and amuses the individual intellect ; humour knits hearts together ; is , in truth , in a broad sense , that ' touch of nature which makes the whole world ...
... things and revivifies them with its generous warmth and geniality . Wit engages and amuses the individual intellect ; humour knits hearts together ; is , in truth , in a broad sense , that ' touch of nature which makes the whole world ...
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... thing , were devilishly disreputable ' in his time . But success waits on him , and he can afford to smile at the eccentric officer . Were it not for the closing pages of ' Pendennis ' we could almost feel angry with Thackeray for ...
... thing , were devilishly disreputable ' in his time . But success waits on him , and he can afford to smile at the eccentric officer . Were it not for the closing pages of ' Pendennis ' we could almost feel angry with Thackeray for ...
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... things . He could also crush pretence , at once and effectually . A bumptious young wit said to him in company , ' You must know , Mr. Dean , that I set up for a wit ! ' ' Do you so ? ' said the Dean . Take my advice and sit down again ...
... things . He could also crush pretence , at once and effectually . A bumptious young wit said to him in company , ' You must know , Mr. Dean , that I set up for a wit ! ' ' Do you so ? ' said the Dean . Take my advice and sit down again ...
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... thing is noticed in the character of Beatrix Esmond ; we are first interested in her ; then our faith is gradually shattered ; and , finally , we are thoroughly disappointed by the catastrophe . The result is contrary to that which we ...
... thing is noticed in the character of Beatrix Esmond ; we are first interested in her ; then our faith is gradually shattered ; and , finally , we are thoroughly disappointed by the catastrophe . The result is contrary to that which we ...
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... things as marks for the shafts of novelists and satirists ; but the man who would assure us of his divine mission in poetry takes a nobler range than that . He is for ever in search of , and thirsting for , the beauty of the universe ...
... things as marks for the shafts of novelists and satirists ; but the man who would assure us of his divine mission in poetry takes a nobler range than that . He is for ever in search of , and thirsting for , the beauty of the universe ...
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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 |