Books and Their WritersG. Richards Limited, 1920 - 343 psl. |
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... kind of criticism is pityingly silent over poverty of thought and diction , and lavish of praise where praise can honestly be given . There is so much that is good that we need never read anything else . It is obvious that we are not by ...
... kind of criticism is pityingly silent over poverty of thought and diction , and lavish of praise where praise can honestly be given . There is so much that is good that we need never read anything else . It is obvious that we are not by ...
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... . Eames knew it . Kind friends had seen to that . " This conscientious historian had had a lapse from grace in his earlier days on the island , and that was to fall in love after the fashion of a pure 30 BOOKS AND THEIR WRITERS.
... . Eames knew it . Kind friends had seen to that . " This conscientious historian had had a lapse from grace in his earlier days on the island , and that was to fall in love after the fashion of a pure 30 BOOKS AND THEIR WRITERS.
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... kind of virginal ferocity . He lacked the male attributes of humility , reverence , and sense of proportion . The tail of a cow was just as important to him as the tail of a comet : more important , if it could be turned into a joke ...
... kind of virginal ferocity . He lacked the male attributes of humility , reverence , and sense of proportion . The tail of a cow was just as important to him as the tail of a comet : more important , if it could be turned into a joke ...
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... kind of merry nightmare . There was something bright and diabolical in the tone of the place , something kaleidoscopic - a frolicsome perversity . Purifying , at the same time . It swept away the cobwebs . It gave you a measure , a stan ...
... kind of merry nightmare . There was something bright and diabolical in the tone of the place , something kaleidoscopic - a frolicsome perversity . Purifying , at the same time . It swept away the cobwebs . It gave you a measure , a stan ...
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... kind . Prefer the other sort . ' " " A knock at the door interrupts the sisters ' tart arguments , and Alf appears armed with seats for the theatre ; before he has the chance to invite Jenny ( in her sister's presence ) , she makes it ...
... kind . Prefer the other sort . ' " " A knock at the door interrupts the sisters ' tart arguments , and Alf appears armed with seats for the theatre ; before he has the chance to invite Jenny ( in her sister's presence ) , she makes it ...
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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...