Books and Their WritersG. Richards Limited, 1920 - 343 psl. |
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... heart , of Miss G. B. Stern's insight into the problems of the sexes ; I should like to extol Ralph Straus's strong , trenchant , healthy point of view , and Joseph Conrad's Romantic realism . Leonard Merrick's sad irony should receive ...
... heart , of Miss G. B. Stern's insight into the problems of the sexes ; I should like to extol Ralph Straus's strong , trenchant , healthy point of view , and Joseph Conrad's Romantic realism . Leonard Merrick's sad irony should receive ...
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... hearts of his heroines . Women do shower their love on to the most undeserving men . It is quite true that Pauline will never forget Guy ; she is like the nymph on the Grecian Urn . . . it was quite in keeping with passionate , heart ...
... hearts of his heroines . Women do shower their love on to the most undeserving men . It is quite true that Pauline will never forget Guy ; she is like the nymph on the Grecian Urn . . . it was quite in keeping with passionate , heart ...
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... . • We are swept along so fast that we no longer feel any astonishment at meeting Maurice in the heart of Africa , Arthur Madden in a third - rate hotel in Sulphur- ville , U.S.A. , or think it strange that Sylvia 24 BOOKS AND THEIR ...
... . • We are swept along so fast that we no longer feel any astonishment at meeting Maurice in the heart of Africa , Arthur Madden in a third - rate hotel in Sulphur- ville , U.S.A. , or think it strange that Sylvia 24 BOOKS AND THEIR ...
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... heart . " Of another we learn that it was renowned for its calming influence on all who suffered from abuse of lechery or alcohol , or from ingrowing toe - nails . One of the most successful chapters in the book is that which tells of ...
... heart . " Of another we learn that it was renowned for its calming influence on all who suffered from abuse of lechery or alcohol , or from ingrowing toe - nails . One of the most successful chapters in the book is that which tells of ...
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... heart ; a falsehood , before it left her lips , had grown into a flaming truth . " Catholics had been known to cross themselves at the fertility of her constructive imagina- tion . Her death leads to some aphorisms on the subject of ...
... heart ; a falsehood , before it left her lips , had grown into a flaming truth . " Catholics had been known to cross themselves at the fertility of her constructive imagina- tion . Her death leads to some aphorisms on the subject 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...
207 psl. - The expense of spirit in a waste of shame Is lust in action...
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...