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... genius : abandoning this barren task I then began to dig in the gardens of other men's minds : this book is the result . All I have sought to do has been to convey some of the pleasure I have gained from desultory reading of all kinds ...
... genius : abandoning this barren task I then began to dig in the gardens of other men's minds : this book is the result . All I have sought to do has been to convey some of the pleasure I have gained from desultory reading of all kinds ...
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... genius whatever . I could have pined ( for pages ) for the Wells of Mr Polly , Kipps , and Love and Mr Lewisham , and become angry that so great a humorist should have devoted to the Deity , politics , sex , and education , what should ...
... genius whatever . I could have pined ( for pages ) for the Wells of Mr Polly , Kipps , and Love and Mr Lewisham , and become angry that so great a humorist should have devoted to the Deity , politics , sex , and education , what should ...
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Stuart Petre Brodie Mais. sidering The Loom of Youth a book of surpassing genius . The Prisoners of Mainz is ever so much . better ; the former was all stale news to me as I am a schoolmaster : it shows great powers of observation , but ...
Stuart Petre Brodie Mais. sidering The Loom of Youth a book of surpassing genius . The Prisoners of Mainz is ever so much . better ; the former was all stale news to me as I am a schoolmaster : it shows great powers of observation , but ...
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... Orczy , and the recompense is slender ; Conrad and Henry James demand the same mental alertness in their readers as they themselves are possessed of . II THE GENIUS OF COMPTON MACKENZIE I N Sylvia Scarlett 18 BOOKS AND THEIR WRITERS.
... Orczy , and the recompense is slender ; Conrad and Henry James demand the same mental alertness in their readers as they themselves are possessed of . II THE GENIUS OF COMPTON MACKENZIE I N Sylvia Scarlett 18 BOOKS AND THEIR WRITERS.
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... genius . In the first place , he possesses a memory which is almost Macau- layesque . I know of no author who can re - create our earliest years so accurately or so sympatheti- cally unfortunately this leads him into the error of ...
... genius . In the first place , he possesses a memory which is almost Macau- layesque . I know of no author who can re - create our earliest years so accurately or so sympatheti- cally unfortunately this leads him into the error of ...
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61 psl. - It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
85 psl. - HARK! hark, my soul; angelic songs are swelling O'er earth's green fields, and ocean's wavebeat shore : How sweet the truth those blessed strains are telling Of that new life when sin shall be no more. Angels of Jesus, angels of light, Singing to welcome the pilgrims of the night. 2 Onward we go, for still we hear them singing, 'Come, weary souls, for Jesus bids you come...
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210 psl. - The streets were mine, the temple was mine, the people were mine, their clothes and gold and silver were mine as much as their sparkling eyes, fair skins and ruddy faces. The skies were mine, and so were the sun and moon and stars, and all the World was mine and I the only spectator and enjoyer of it.
246 psl. - Ah! no; a shepherd of a different stock, And far unlike him, feeds this little flock: A jovial youth, who thinks his Sunday's task As much as God or man can fairly ask; The rest he gives to loves and labours light. To fields the morning, and to feasts the night; None better...
141 psl. - Was there love once? I have forgotten her. Was there grief once? Grief yet is mine. O loved, living, dying, heroic soldier, All, all my joy, my grief, my love, are thine.
216 psl. - You will see Coleridge he who sits obscure In the exceeding lustre and the pure Intense irradiation of a mind, Which, with its own internal lightning blind, Flags wearily through darkness and despair A cloud-encircled meteor of the air, A hooded eagle among blinking owls.
296 psl. - Shy as the squirrel and wayward as the swallow, Swift as the swallow along the river's light Circleting the surface to meet his mirror'd winglets, Fleeter she seems in her stay than in her flight.
52 psl. - Oh! it is only a novel!" replies the young lady; while she lays down her book with affected indifference, or momentary shame. - "It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda;" or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.
53 psl. - I could no more write a romance than an epic poem. I could not sit seriously down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life...