Littell's Living Age, Volumen165Living Age Company Incorporated, 1885 |
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... speak of her as " proud and sensitive " in a manner peculiarly her own but that her " fas- tidious , yet hungry ambition " ( vol . iii . , p . 125 ) , as she herself described the side of her nature which caused her a perpetual ...
... speak of her as " proud and sensitive " in a manner peculiarly her own but that her " fas- tidious , yet hungry ambition " ( vol . iii . , p . 125 ) , as she herself described the side of her nature which caused her a perpetual ...
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... speak , " said Frances , with a little indignation , as if papa was likely to be against — his children ; as if he were an enemy . " " Taking sides is not exactly being ene- mies , " said Constance . " We are each of our own faction ...
... speak , " said Frances , with a little indignation , as if papa was likely to be against — his children ; as if he were an enemy . " " Taking sides is not exactly being ene- mies , " said Constance . " We are each of our own faction ...
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... speak figuratively , the want of contrast , color , buoyancy , fill me with a certain involuntary sensation of gloom . I go home , purified , and thrilled by a noble work of art resounding with high moral purpose but a little lowered in ...
... speak figuratively , the want of contrast , color , buoyancy , fill me with a certain involuntary sensation of gloom . I go home , purified , and thrilled by a noble work of art resounding with high moral purpose but a little lowered in ...
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... speak at all to make clear their canons of right and wrong ; but it can never be a duty to pass public judgment on the lives of our departed friends . Now the present writer during many years was the friend of George Eliot , the friend ...
... speak at all to make clear their canons of right and wrong ; but it can never be a duty to pass public judgment on the lives of our departed friends . Now the present writer during many years was the friend of George Eliot , the friend ...
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... speak- ing the same language , living the same manner of life , and having so much in common as to their national characteris- tics melt together into one ethnical type the Finnish . Even religion does not separate them , the nearly ...
... speak- ing the same language , living the same manner of life , and having so much in common as to their national characteris- tics melt together into one ethnical type the Finnish . Even religion does not separate them , the nearly ...
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Página 402 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief ? Fare you well: had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do.
Página 404 - Hence, bashful cunning; And prompt me, plain and holy innocence ! I am your wife, if you will marry me ; If not, I'll die your maid : to be your fellow You may deny me ; but I'll be your servant Whether you will or no.
Página 279 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behavior, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
Página 276 - These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us : though the wisdom of nature can reason it thus and thus, yet nature finds itself scourged by the sequent effects : love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide : in cities, mutinies ; in countries, discord ; in palaces, treason ; and the bond cracked 'twixt son and father.
Página 276 - And posts, like the commandment of a king, Sans check, to good and bad : But when the planets In evil mixture, to disorder wander, What plagues, and what portents ! what mutiny ! What raging of the sea ! shaking of earth ! Commotion in the winds ! frights, changes, horrors Divert and crack, rend and deracinate The unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixture...
Página 298 - And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, Which men deliver to one that is learned, Saying, Read this, I pray thee: And he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed: And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, Saying, Read this, I pray thee : And he saith, I am not learned.
Página 305 - On her left breast A mole cinque-spotted, like the crimson drops I...
Página 277 - And thorough this distemperature we see The seasons alter : hoary-headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose, And on old Hiems' thin and icy crown An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds Is, as in mockery, set.
Página 344 - In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs — and God has given my share — I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down...
Página 318 - His acquaintance with books was great ; and what he did not immediately know, he could at least tell where to find. Such was his amplitude of learning, and such his copiousness of communication, that it may be doubted whether a day now passes in which I have not some advantage from his friendship.